First experiences as a teacher

Last week the two German volunteers were confronted with a new task. One of the German teachers was on an exchange trip and Linda and me were supposed to do her lessons.
In the beginning it sounded really heard, 16 lessons in our forst week but while preparing we noticed that it is also a lot of fun and an interesting job. Another thing I never expected like this is that there is actually a lot of work for the teacher behind one lesson... Not a long time ago I was in the opposit position, a stundent. I remember many times, my classmades and me, we were complaning about teachers and their "slow" work refering to tests etc.
Now it is really interesting for me to figure out about the other side.
The first time standing in front of class alone was something between nervousness and curiosity. A native German speaker is not natually a good German teacher. It was really aduous to speak slowly and articulate but otherwise the students wouldn't understand at all. Sometimes there were some problems with understanding because we were told to speak just German and no English. But we tried our best and it was interesting for the stundents to be tought by native speakers. I also liked the contact to stundents from the school because we are interested in Lithuanian daily life and people from this country.
All in all the German teacher was happy about our help and I hope she can reconstruct our work. It is not possible to tach every claas on the same level and we experienced individual work with classes and students.
As a conclusion I really liked the lessons but it was also exhausting to look for everybody all the time and not to fall a sleep or to get lost in thoughts in front of class. But the best thing is the feeling when I saw that students understood our teaching and got something of my native language.