Starting school!!!

So this week I (Gar) began teaching my English classes... so far it has been a very exciting (but tiring) experience. I came into work on Monday at 11:30am expecting to teach at 1:30 and get some sort of training (or at least a run down of how things worked at the school) before that but I was mistaken! I actually had a class at 12:30 so we would have to do the abbreviated tour. Jesse (my head teacher's English name) showed me my new digs... classroom 605. It is definitely bare bones but I am allowed to decorate any way I please. I have a whiteboard, 2 maps of the world, 7 desks and a teachers desk as well as every ESL book you could possibly think of! That sounds like a good thing however it just means that I have basically a different book for every class! It's a little hectic but I am figuring it out....
So then I was handed my attendance sheets and on them was a list of the students names, the books I needed for the classes and the times the classes started and finished at. This was pretty much the end of my preparation. Jesse was extremely helpful in that he sat in the first 3 of my classes and helped me introduce myself to the younger kids (because they do not speak much English) and then he went back up to his office! Pretty much I was just thrown to the wolves (so to speak). Luckily my kids were all very nice and helpful... some of them are extremely shy in terms of speaking English but I can already see a difference between the way they act around me today (Wed) and our first meeting.
So far the whole experience has had a very steep learning curve but I am figuring out things as I go and any questions/concerns I have are very quickly answered by Jesse!