Day 408

Friday January 29

Yesterday I started watching "Sang Doo, Lets go to school". Its a Korean drama. I found episodes online with English subtitles. I really like it. There are 16 episodes. I'm currently on episode 5. Rain is in the drama. I also think the guy who plays the doctor is really cute. The show was broadcast in 2003-2004.

The first class was great. Today was our newspaper class. As always, they all begged to read first…they loved the articles…they liked pictures…..esp the dog and fish….I showed them the picture of the small dog and they all thought it was cute. Then one boy said “delicious”..everyone laughed….they also said the fish looked delicious….they all did a great job….I showed them a pic of a 14 year old who was going to college. Some of them laughed, some said he was ugly and one boy he was handsome.

We also had a newspaper class in my 2nd class….at the beginning they were begging for a party because one of the students is leaving for New Zealand on Monday. They said it was his last class here. We didn’t have a party but I gave them 1000 won each. They all went down to homeplus to get snacks.Then we went over our articles. They thought the dog was cute..we had a good class..everyone participated and did a good job. One of the boys was throwing food across room and another student caught in mouth..haha.

My 3rd class was good today….we covered 3 pages ofnew material and then I let them have free time. They love to see me write my name in hanguel on the board…they had good behavior today. They did good on the new material about the times of day. They all participated and worked hard. Only one person brought their homework so I gave him 2 stickers since he was the only one.

We had a great class in my last class. Best class of the day. We had a test on words we learned last time. 2 of them did really good-90/100. The other made a 40. Then we covered 3 pages. They did a great job in class. We learned a new set of words. Then I let them play a game for 10 minutes. They were so excited to play hangman. They all sat in a row and got out their spelling books. I'd write the blanks and they'd count how many letters and then look through their list and start calling out letters. They were enthustiastically calling out the letters and being really loud. They'd cheer when they'd get it right. They probably were a little louder than they should be but it was 10 mins before the end of the day so its not that big of a deal. Its great to see them to excited!

One of my kids came over to my desk to ask if I was going to Everland. She told me she was going too and she gave me a hug. sweet. I think we'll have a good time tomorrow just letting them be kids!

I'm actually writing this on Saturday. I should be asleep since I have to be up at 7 to go to Everland but I'm still awake.