Day 383

Monday January 4

I put up an article about the snow in Korea and I've been getting a lot of hits to my blog today...The Seoul snow storm is all over the online newspaper....Its the biggest storm in 70 years..

I had a hard time getting to sleep. I knew that would probably happen after sleeping till 5pm on Sunday. I laid down at 11:45pm. I was still awake around 5am. My brain just didn't want to shut down and I was just laying there but not falling asleep. I finally fell alseep and got less than 2 hours probably. I'm surprised I wasn't tired any during the day.

Today we started our day schedule. I had to be at work at 9am. I left my apt this morning at 8:30am. Snow was really coming down! There was already a lot on the ground. Wow. I took some pictures and a video on my digital camera on my way to the subway.

We still had class today. We don't cancel the private academy because of snow. If this was South Carolina the town would have shut down.haha. but not Seoul. The show must go on.

I had a good day.

We started classes at 9:30am. I had 2 new students in my first class. 2 boys. I had 3 absent students. Today we did two lessons. One about instant food and the other about littering. Everyone participated and practiced with their partner. One of my students who has been absent a lot was back today. He came in near the end of the second lesson. He told me that he was really sick and was in the hospital for 50 days. I think maybe he mean't 15 days because he was in my class at the beginning of December so it couldn't be 50. After the lesson I gave them some free time to play a game.

My 2nd class was good. Today's lesson was about asking questions. There were 25 questions so we didn't get to the last 2 questions. I thought these questions would be pretty obvious but they had a little trouble. They caught on after a while and did a good job. We worked all the way up till the end of class.

My 3rd class was good. I had 2 new students. 1 absent student. This is the class that has been behaving badly. Today they were being good and studying hard and actually doing good with the lesson. We studied for 30 minutes and I let them have free time. We will be having a test on Friday.

My last class was good. I usually have the lowest level spelling as my first class but we changed the schedule around and its my last class. We had a good class today. The student who is usually late was absent today. The new student was present. He made a 100 on his spelling test. Today in class we covered 1 lesson and learned a new set of words that we will work on Friday.

I like the schedule. I had classes from 9:30-10:15, 10:25-11:10, break from 11:10-12:30, class from 12:30-1:25, break from 1:25-2:00, class from 2-2:45, then I left at 4pm. Tomorrow I only have one break but I'm done with class at 2:25 then I just sit around till 4pm.