My (30th!) birthday was a few days ago so I'm a few days late posting this, but, I made it! I've finished my first month with VIPKID! 👏💓👏 

Here's a screenshot from my Teach VIPKID app on day 30:

I actually didn't actually have my first class until August 30th (I wanted to give myself a few days to prepare), though. So my first month of actual teaching will still be in a couple of days yet and I'll make a more detailed post then with more details!

I just wanted to at least mark this occasion and say, yet again, how much I love being a VIPKID teacher & how grateful I am to have found & got hired for this job! 💗

Let's talk pronunciation corrections! Particularly when students are reading passages several sentences+ long.

Finally! I'm on Day ~24 as a VIPKID teacher, and I've finally finished my intro video for my teacher profile page! 😌

I've been meaning to learn how to edit videos on DaVinci Resolve (free!) for several months now, but hadn't gotten around to starting until a few days ago. This video is certainly nowhere near perfect at all, but not too bad for my first go with (sorta) for-real video editing! :)

I was so excited to use this Magnetic Silly Animals book ($10) for the first time today! And, of course, it was my first day of only having older students! 😒 I thought this might be too childish for them, but I just went with it, and they got a kick out of it! 😅👍

The pages are magnetic and cardboard, so I used box cutters to cut our each page so I could show it to the camera easier. I know we should have our rewards system visible at all times, so I need to find the best way to do that ASAP. I'll probably do something along the lines of a string/ribbon on the top corners of each page and a nail in the wall behind me to hang them on. That way it's also easy to grab it and bring it closer to the webcam when it's time for a new face-part.


The Amazon fairies also brought me some Revlon Red 'nail enamel' (lol @ $4 nail polish trying to sound fancy. 😉). It's been so many years since I've painted my nails, it feels both weird and so... well, er, okay, yes... fancy! 😆I point to my bright red lips so often every class... I don't know, my brain just kept thinking it was weird that my fingers didn't match?? Now I have bright red fingertips to point out my bright red lips, and letters, and pictures, and whatever I'm doing on the whiteboard at the moment, etc. That plus this garish orange sweater I wear everyday... I AM NOW A LIVING BEACON FOR CHILDREN'S VISUAL ATTENTION! Hopefully! 😉😄

The best part is: webcams aren't good enough (or perhaps the VIPKID video window is small enough) where the students can't really tell that the paint is already chipped after 1 day (because of course it is). 😅  I guess I should have bought a topcoat, too! But I don't remember that actually making much of a difference back when I wore nail polish more frequently. I am more clumsy and prone to smashing my fingers/hands/entire body into anything I come near than most people, though.

And finally: EMOJIIIIIIS!!! I have had a blogs on and off for most of my life now (#millennial) but when they have been public I've always tried to write so ~*professionally.*~ It is so not my style, so it was hard to keep up the blogs. So now I'm just writing how I talk, so hopefully I'll stick with it- because I do want to record and share my VIPKID adventures! And part of that is, apparently, using excessive emojis! 😁😁🙊😅 I don't even think they were available last time I tried to be a regular blogger. I've been giggling every time I put one of them in here, because it feels so naughty! Like adding a smiley face to a term paper! 😲😱😈😅😅😁

.... It miiiiiiiight take me a while to calm down with these things, so I apologize in advance. 😉 It may look like I'm a 13 year old girl with her first cell phone, but I promise.... I really am a grown up! 💁 Technically, at least. 😜😀