Day 406

Wednesday January 27

It snowed again today. Very briefly. Then it rained and it was all gone. It hadn't accumulated anyway.

I get so tired in the afternoon and night. lately I've been taking long naps in the evening. I know its because I don't get enough sleep. I just have a hard time getting to bed early. I was still up at 3am this morn and I have to be up at 7:25am. I have problems. I never want to go to bed before 2am.

1st class was good. As i was passing out the writing tests everyone was telling me how difficult writing was. After the test they had free time and I finished the speaking tests. There was one student who was begging to take the speaking test first, but he had already taken his test on Wednesday. I told him he had already taken it. He made a good grade so he didnt need to take it again. The students who were taking tests today were the ones that didn't take the test on Monday.

2nd class was good.They also took a writing test. 2 stud did well. The other student did very poorly. He skipped the whole back page. Said he didn't know it. Some of these kids just don't care.

My 3rd class was good today. They were asking if they were good can they have a game. I agreed. They were good in class today. We had a productive class. They did a good job on the new material. We covered 3 pages. We will finish on Friday and have a test on Monday. They were asking me to write things on the board in hanguel. They were impressed that I can write in hanguel (written form of Korean). We did a speaking lesson instead of a newspaper lesson today. I need to make sure I’m able to finish the book. We need to do a chapter a week to finish on time.

My last class is so sweet.I think I really enjoy working with the younger kids even though I don't think they understand much of what I say. They are so well behaved. The girl keeps talking to me in Korean and the boys keep telling her that I'm the English teacher. I just look at her like 'i have no clue what you just said'. haha. I think she gets a little fustrated because she doesn't know how to properly express herself in English. We had a spelling test today. The boy who usually gets 100 got a 60. The new girl got a 10 and the other boy got a 20. We covered 3 pages. Its really hard to cover more than one lesson per class..We learned new words and they did a good job on the activities.