Internship
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mothwingI've got it.
I'll be at the day-care centre I applied from the 16th of July and the 24th of August. That leaves me... zero holidays. The lovely Ms Schütz did say that those hours were rather flexible, though, so if I do find out that eight hours of work every day are just my thing, we can do that as well.
I have mixed feelings about the place. I know that I really, really don't get on well with children who don't go to school yet, but maybe that's a skill that can be learned like any other.
The people working at the day-care centre are as overworked and underpayed as everywhere else ("Seriously, we can always do with an extra pair of hands here. We are really, really looking forward to having you!").
The children I saw when I got a tour of the premises were all really nice and friendly, and helpful (like when I was having a look at the pictures of the staff on the board and that one girl walked up to me and pointed at one of the women on the pictures and informed me that "SHE is dead," without any kind of introduction or explanation and walked away again). The ones I saw were between three and twelve, but they do have a nursery as well with much younger children - as it said in the leaflet, between eight months and fourteen years old.
The children arrive at different times every day, and they leave at individual times, too. There are groups that are organised loosely according to age and interest, but not really as static as the ones in my own kindergarten used to be - which was due to the fact that all of us arrived at the same time and left at the same time, so groups made more sense.
They are looking after 200 children, and for that number the premises have stricken me as rather.. smallish. There are two areas outside, one with sand and one with grass, but not really a lot of space to run about. The children will have to be indoors most of the time. Indoors, there are plenty of rooms, each one serving another purpose. There are several kitchens, rooms for drawing and crafting, rooms for leggo-ing, rooms for resting, rooms for doing your homework. It is immediately apparent which room is roughly for which age group - because even though the children can go wherever they want there are e.g. different drawing rooms for the different age groups- and I really like that.
*sigh*
Off to my 186-people seminar now to have someone explain EXMARaLDA to me. Once more.
I'll be at the day-care centre I applied from the 16th of July and the 24th of August. That leaves me... zero holidays. The lovely Ms Schütz did say that those hours were rather flexible, though, so if I do find out that eight hours of work every day are just my thing, we can do that as well.
I have mixed feelings about the place. I know that I really, really don't get on well with children who don't go to school yet, but maybe that's a skill that can be learned like any other.
The people working at the day-care centre are as overworked and underpayed as everywhere else ("Seriously, we can always do with an extra pair of hands here. We are really, really looking forward to having you!").
The children I saw when I got a tour of the premises were all really nice and friendly, and helpful (like when I was having a look at the pictures of the staff on the board and that one girl walked up to me and pointed at one of the women on the pictures and informed me that "SHE is dead," without any kind of introduction or explanation and walked away again). The ones I saw were between three and twelve, but they do have a nursery as well with much younger children - as it said in the leaflet, between eight months and fourteen years old.
The children arrive at different times every day, and they leave at individual times, too. There are groups that are organised loosely according to age and interest, but not really as static as the ones in my own kindergarten used to be - which was due to the fact that all of us arrived at the same time and left at the same time, so groups made more sense.
They are looking after 200 children, and for that number the premises have stricken me as rather.. smallish. There are two areas outside, one with sand and one with grass, but not really a lot of space to run about. The children will have to be indoors most of the time. Indoors, there are plenty of rooms, each one serving another purpose. There are several kitchens, rooms for drawing and crafting, rooms for leggo-ing, rooms for resting, rooms for doing your homework. It is immediately apparent which room is roughly for which age group - because even though the children can go wherever they want there are e.g. different drawing rooms for the different age groups- and I really like that.
*sigh*
Off to my 186-people seminar now to have someone explain EXMARaLDA to me. Once more.
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Date: Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 05:23 pm (UTC)Although it's sucky about no holidays. :O(
But I'm glad you got something -- that's a relief at least. And I'm sure you'll do just fine. Don't be too hard on yourself! *hugs*
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Date: Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 07:04 pm (UTC)I hope that the activities they offer that focus on reading and homework help will be good. I LOVE reading to people, even though that love is well and truly unrequited.