Teaching in the Nude :: Personal Narrative Essay Example

So at that place I was, standing in the locker room. There were eight four-year olds (boys and girls) the two teachers (both women, around the age of cardinal five) and me. It was a Wednesday, which means it is a swim day. As everyone around me began drop his or her clothes, I felt my heart skip a stave as I wondered where I was going to change.   Um, do I scantily take rack up my clothes and change right in expect of the children? I asked, sheepishly.   Well, unless you plan to swim in your clothes, I think it would be a good idea to take off your clothes was the Danish response. They were non used to my cultural views on nudity but I was. Well, seeing as I did not want the children to think I was strange, I took a deep breath and stripped down.   Standing there naked, for the first five minutes was the hardest thing I had ever through with(p) - or so I thought. Here in Sweden, when changing in the locker room, it is proper etiquette to wander around in the nu de. Ones towel does not serve any other purpose besides drying one off - it is not a cover for ones nude body. This was a big graduation for me. It is the American way to use your towel as a riddle from exposing your naked behind to others. Well, not here.   So, I proceeded into the shower chamber (naked) on with my naked class of children and the two naked teachers. The shower chamber consisted of a long corridor of waterspouts - there was no place to hide I had to grin and bare it, literally After our six to ten-minute communal nude shower, we in the end put our bathing suits on and went swimming.   I thought I had effectuate a great feat I, the modest American, stood naked in bird-scarer of the whole class and the teachers. Yay for me But, to my surprise, I was mistaken.   After our swim, we entered the naked chamber at once again. Our bathing suits and towels were hung up, and the naked party began We all showered again (the Danes are authentically clean pe ople), and as I grabbed my towel and began to dry off, I received strange looks. Am I not supposed to be getting dressed yet?