我們一起來看看Charlotte的第一份工作吧，是什么讓他對小孩無奈從而選擇教大人呢?

First Job

Todd: OK, Charlotte. You've been a teacher for quite awhile.

Charlotte: Yeah, I started about three years ago, and my first job was in Jessif, in the east of Poland. I was promised that I wasn't going to have to teach any beginners, or any little children because it was my first job, and I was promptly given the beginner infants. My first day of teaching I was given a book which said, 'Ah! Go into the classroom and say "Hello" to the children, and they'll all say, "Hello" back to you and wave'. I walked into a class of five four-year olds, followed by all their mothers, and grandmothers, and I said, "Hello" and they all burst into tears. I spent half the lesson trying to get them to say, "Hello" to each other and stop them from crying while all the grandmothers stood around and stared at me. I finally finished off by singing the, whatever, Happy Princess Song, all on my own, with crying infants to accompany me. It was one of the worst days of my life. I could identify with all the children though, 'cause I wanted to sit on the floor and cry with them by the end of it. I think that that was when I realized that teaching kids was never going to be my vocation. I had some other classes as well but quit soon after that and moved onto adults who cry slightly less. Um, yeah, that was my first teaching experience. Not the best.

英語單詞：

promptly adv. 迅速地;立即地;敏捷地

infant n. 嬰兒;幼兒;未成年人