Wednesday December 30
One of my teeth started hurting last night. I didn't have any pain medicine in my apt so I kept waking up at different times in the night. I think I might have a cavity. I'll go to the dentist soon (after I get paid!). I went to the pharmacy today and got some pain medicine.
Tomorrow I'm going to the American Embassy to renew my passport. I have to get up early so I'll have time to go. They are only open on new years eve from 8:30am till 12:30pm.
My first class was good. I started out class by having the boys write their spelling words 3 times each so it would be fresh on their mind before the test. Then we took the test. The new student is doing great. He made a perfect score on his test. The other student made a 20. I just don't know what to do to help that student. I go over the words numerous times. He just cant ever remember how to spell them. Today we learned a new set of words. They did good on all of the activities in class.
My 2nd class was good. Today we were taking a writing test. All of the students were asking me for help on the test. So I'd help one and then 2 or 3 would call me at the same time. I couldn't remember who called me first so I just helped them randomly. They did a good job.They loved one of the questions on the test. It was a question about proper nouns. They had to find the proper noun and change it to make it correct. (it was in lowercase letters so they had to make sure it was capitalized.) The question was "valerie is my teacher." They all made a comment about that. haha. One of the boys kept telling me I was a kind teacher.
My 3rd class was good. We had a writing test. They did okay. The boy made an 84 and the girl made 68. Then we read a selection from the newspaper called "English Letters". I gave them some questions to answer about what they read. Then we had free time and they played hangman.
My last class wasn't on their best behavior today. I made them work all the way up till class ended. Today we were doing the newspaper class. We talked about The Maldives, Solna Centrum Metro, A group like Girls Generation in China, and Toronto. They were asking for a game. They have to be good to get a game. They weren't listening, they were getting out of their seats, throwing things at each other,they weren't reading along as a class. They still kept asking for a game. I told them the whole class has to be good to get a game. There were a few people who were ruining it for everyone. One kid asked me if I was angry. I said yeah. I was a little. Then another kid said I should cry. I'm not going to cry over their bad behavior. Then another student said I could go home and cry. haha.
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. I don't have any plans. There was an event I would like to go to, but its just too cold to be standing outside waiting for the new year and I'd be afraid I wouldn't be able to get the subway home. Some of the subways stop running around midnight.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Day 377
Tuesday December 29
I had a new student in my first class. When it was time for class she was out in the hall with her mom. She was crying. I guess she was scared of coming to a new school. The Korean teacher couldn't get her to tell her name. She told me later in class when I asked. She was sitting in one of the other student's desks. That student came in a few mins late. I didn't want to ask the new student to move. The new student moved to the desk beside. Then I got all the students to introduce themselves. Today we just had a speaking test so she didnt really get to see what my class was like. Its funny when the students are telling me what order they want to go in. The first person started and said "I want to be 7th (last)" One girl asked to be first. Then they filled in the order from there. Everyone did a good job. I have to remind them to speak in sentences. The last student made a perfect grade. He spoke in sentences and used correct grammar so I gave him a perfect score. One of my newest students made the lowest grade, 87, because of a few grammar mistakes, but she's only been in speaking class twice so thats pretty good.
My 2nd class was good. I told everyone it was time for our test and gave them the pages to study. Then I gave them at least 15 minutes of study time. They were doing so good during study time while looking at the answers. Then when it came around to test time it was like they forgot. They still did pretty good. I think all their grades were in the mid to high 80's. They made grammar mistakes and some of them didn't give an answer that made sense. Then there were a few times when they would just tell me they didn't know the answer. I told the two boys not to be late to my 6pm class cause they are usually late.
They were 5 minutes late. Today was our newspaper class with the 2 levels combined. We had a pretty good class. Sometimes the 2 chatty boys were talking to each other, but for the most part everyone participated. Today we talked about hedgehogs, The Princess and the Frog, and a dancing traffic cop. They had to read an article about foot binding for homework. They all seemed to think the black princess was funny. I was trying to get a discussion going about hedgehogs. The article said women in England liked to carry hedgehogs in their handbags. I asked the students "should animals be carried in bags?". All of them said "no" but I couldnt get most of them to give a reason. One student gave the answer I was looking for he said "no because the animal might die in the bag" YES!
During my hour break I read some of a book that my mom sent me. It's called "The Pact" by Jodi Picoult. Its a good book. I'm about 2/3 of the way through. Its starting to get more interesting and I want to know what happens. I'll give a summary: in the book there are 2 teenagers who were dating and supposedly had a suicide pact. The girl died and the boy is still alive. The boy is a suspect and has to go to jail and to court.
My last class was good. We just had to do a speaking test. I gave them time to study and then they took the test. Both students did well on the test. Then I let them play a game. We played the English game: red, dress, sock...etc. We were on teams. We played rock, paper, scissors to determine who would be on teams and what order we would go in. They did a good job. It really helps them to think about their vocabulary.
I was watching a tv program tonight about "Ninja Assassin". I might see the movie just to see Rain. He's a Korean singer/actor. I don't normally watch fighting/martial arts movies. Rain is just so handsome!! I should have went to his concert when I had the chance!! He was in Seoul this year. I think around October.
I had a new student in my first class. When it was time for class she was out in the hall with her mom. She was crying. I guess she was scared of coming to a new school. The Korean teacher couldn't get her to tell her name. She told me later in class when I asked. She was sitting in one of the other student's desks. That student came in a few mins late. I didn't want to ask the new student to move. The new student moved to the desk beside. Then I got all the students to introduce themselves. Today we just had a speaking test so she didnt really get to see what my class was like. Its funny when the students are telling me what order they want to go in. The first person started and said "I want to be 7th (last)" One girl asked to be first. Then they filled in the order from there. Everyone did a good job. I have to remind them to speak in sentences. The last student made a perfect grade. He spoke in sentences and used correct grammar so I gave him a perfect score. One of my newest students made the lowest grade, 87, because of a few grammar mistakes, but she's only been in speaking class twice so thats pretty good.
My 2nd class was good. I told everyone it was time for our test and gave them the pages to study. Then I gave them at least 15 minutes of study time. They were doing so good during study time while looking at the answers. Then when it came around to test time it was like they forgot. They still did pretty good. I think all their grades were in the mid to high 80's. They made grammar mistakes and some of them didn't give an answer that made sense. Then there were a few times when they would just tell me they didn't know the answer. I told the two boys not to be late to my 6pm class cause they are usually late.
They were 5 minutes late. Today was our newspaper class with the 2 levels combined. We had a pretty good class. Sometimes the 2 chatty boys were talking to each other, but for the most part everyone participated. Today we talked about hedgehogs, The Princess and the Frog, and a dancing traffic cop. They had to read an article about foot binding for homework. They all seemed to think the black princess was funny. I was trying to get a discussion going about hedgehogs. The article said women in England liked to carry hedgehogs in their handbags. I asked the students "should animals be carried in bags?". All of them said "no" but I couldnt get most of them to give a reason. One student gave the answer I was looking for he said "no because the animal might die in the bag" YES!
During my hour break I read some of a book that my mom sent me. It's called "The Pact" by Jodi Picoult. Its a good book. I'm about 2/3 of the way through. Its starting to get more interesting and I want to know what happens. I'll give a summary: in the book there are 2 teenagers who were dating and supposedly had a suicide pact. The girl died and the boy is still alive. The boy is a suspect and has to go to jail and to court.
My last class was good. We just had to do a speaking test. I gave them time to study and then they took the test. Both students did well on the test. Then I let them play a game. We played the English game: red, dress, sock...etc. We were on teams. We played rock, paper, scissors to determine who would be on teams and what order we would go in. They did a good job. It really helps them to think about their vocabulary.
I was watching a tv program tonight about "Ninja Assassin". I might see the movie just to see Rain. He's a Korean singer/actor. I don't normally watch fighting/martial arts movies. Rain is just so handsome!! I should have went to his concert when I had the chance!! He was in Seoul this year. I think around October.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Day 376
Monday December 28
current temp: 17 degrees F
exchange: 1177 krw = 1 usd
I gave my 2 months notice to let the school know I wasn't renewing. My team leader didn't know what the letter was for. I had to explain it to the Korean teacher. I told her I'm suppose to give a notice to let them know if I'm renewing or not.
The snow is still around. Its all yucky now since everyone has stepped on it. The subway and other stores are nasty because people keep tracking in mud from outside. The only pretty snow that I've seen today was down by the stream.
I went out for lunch and on my way back to school I fell down. I hit a slick spot and fell to my knees. The funny thing is a few of my students saw it. haha. One of them saw me and said "hey teacher." Then 2 girls from my last class just laughed at me. I laughed with them.
I had a new student in my first class. He's doing well so far. He wouldn't tell me his name. I'll ask him again next time. The new student was on time and the other student was late. The other student didn't miss much. Before he came in we went over a new set of words and put them in ABC order.
My 2nd class was good. Today we had a speaking test. The students were excited to pick out the order they wanted to go in. Then the test took all class. While one student was taking a test the other students were writing on the whiteboard. All the students did well on the test. I'm pretty lenient on them. I remind them to speak in a sentence. One student made a perfect score. She spoke in complete sentences, the answers were right and her grammar was good. The lowest grade was a 92 because of a few grammar mistakes.
My 3rd class was good also. We had a speaking test in class. I let them study first. They had a little trouble. Both of them made a 90 because of grammar mistakes. Then I let them play hangman.
My last class was also good. I'm glad. One of the main trouble makers was absent today. Today we covered 4 pages of new material. We were talking about action words like drink, eat, laugh, etc. They were on their best behavior and did good in class. Then I let them play a game. They formed 2 teams and played the English game on the chalkboard. I don't know what one word was that they put up there! I let them put it up anyway. The rest of the words were legitimate.
I've got 3 writing tests made. 2 more to go.
I'll be giving speaking tests on Tuesday. Then writing tests on Wednesday and Thursday. I'll also be doing my newspaper class. This week we are talking about: hedgehogs as pets, The first black Disney princess, a dancing traffic police, and foot binding in China.
1 day down...3 more to go...then 3 day weekend!
3 days till new years....
current temp: 17 degrees F
exchange: 1177 krw = 1 usd
I gave my 2 months notice to let the school know I wasn't renewing. My team leader didn't know what the letter was for. I had to explain it to the Korean teacher. I told her I'm suppose to give a notice to let them know if I'm renewing or not.
The snow is still around. Its all yucky now since everyone has stepped on it. The subway and other stores are nasty because people keep tracking in mud from outside. The only pretty snow that I've seen today was down by the stream.
I went out for lunch and on my way back to school I fell down. I hit a slick spot and fell to my knees. The funny thing is a few of my students saw it. haha. One of them saw me and said "hey teacher." Then 2 girls from my last class just laughed at me. I laughed with them.
I had a new student in my first class. He's doing well so far. He wouldn't tell me his name. I'll ask him again next time. The new student was on time and the other student was late. The other student didn't miss much. Before he came in we went over a new set of words and put them in ABC order.
My 2nd class was good. Today we had a speaking test. The students were excited to pick out the order they wanted to go in. Then the test took all class. While one student was taking a test the other students were writing on the whiteboard. All the students did well on the test. I'm pretty lenient on them. I remind them to speak in a sentence. One student made a perfect score. She spoke in complete sentences, the answers were right and her grammar was good. The lowest grade was a 92 because of a few grammar mistakes.
My 3rd class was good also. We had a speaking test in class. I let them study first. They had a little trouble. Both of them made a 90 because of grammar mistakes. Then I let them play hangman.
My last class was also good. I'm glad. One of the main trouble makers was absent today. Today we covered 4 pages of new material. We were talking about action words like drink, eat, laugh, etc. They were on their best behavior and did good in class. Then I let them play a game. They formed 2 teams and played the English game on the chalkboard. I don't know what one word was that they put up there! I let them put it up anyway. The rest of the words were legitimate.
I've got 3 writing tests made. 2 more to go.
I'll be giving speaking tests on Tuesday. Then writing tests on Wednesday and Thursday. I'll also be doing my newspaper class. This week we are talking about: hedgehogs as pets, The first black Disney princess, a dancing traffic police, and foot binding in China.
1 day down...3 more to go...then 3 day weekend!
3 days till new years....
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Day 375
Sunday December 27
I got out and went to Kimbap Heaven at 2am. I got bibimbap and it was too spicy!! It tastes okay, it just has way too much of the gochujang (hot pepper paste). Its suppose to be a good healthy food so I might eat it more often. I just have to tell them to not put much of the hot paste!
I'm planning a trip to NYC in March. Me and my mom are going together. I'm trying to fill our schedules with as much as possible! I think I'm going to plan a day trip to Philadelphia and Washington, DC while we are in the area. We can see New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. We are going to cover 3 states! I searched in cheap tickets.com and found airline plus 5 days in a hotel for $350 a person. (The hotel is in New Jersey-11 miles from NYC) Thats a great deal. I've got to book it soon. I plan to do an 8 hour city tour of NYC and visit Brooklyn Tabnernacle.
I went to bed at 6:30AM and I finally woke up at 6PM. I slept almost 12 hours! I love days where I just shut off the phone, don't set an alarm and sleep until I wake up.
It snowed again. This time it actually covered the ground. I'd say no more than an inch. There are no pretty patches around my area. Its all been trampled on. I live in a very busy area. Lots of stores and restaurants which means lots of people are walking all over the snow. Its only 20 degrees outside, but after going outside twice it wasn't that bad.
If this were SC school would have been cancelled for tomorrow, but not SK. School will go on. I think the kids have a week left of school before they go on winter vacation. They get a whole month off for winter vacation in January. Starting in January I'll be working days instead of nights. oh my.
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| Snow in Seoul December 27 2009 |
I got out and went to Kimbap Heaven at 2am. I got bibimbap and it was too spicy!! It tastes okay, it just has way too much of the gochujang (hot pepper paste). Its suppose to be a good healthy food so I might eat it more often. I just have to tell them to not put much of the hot paste!
I'm planning a trip to NYC in March. Me and my mom are going together. I'm trying to fill our schedules with as much as possible! I think I'm going to plan a day trip to Philadelphia and Washington, DC while we are in the area. We can see New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. We are going to cover 3 states! I searched in cheap tickets.com and found airline plus 5 days in a hotel for $350 a person. (The hotel is in New Jersey-11 miles from NYC) Thats a great deal. I've got to book it soon. I plan to do an 8 hour city tour of NYC and visit Brooklyn Tabnernacle.
I went to bed at 6:30AM and I finally woke up at 6PM. I slept almost 12 hours! I love days where I just shut off the phone, don't set an alarm and sleep until I wake up.
It snowed again. This time it actually covered the ground. I'd say no more than an inch. There are no pretty patches around my area. Its all been trampled on. I live in a very busy area. Lots of stores and restaurants which means lots of people are walking all over the snow. Its only 20 degrees outside, but after going outside twice it wasn't that bad.
If this were SC school would have been cancelled for tomorrow, but not SK. School will go on. I think the kids have a week left of school before they go on winter vacation. They get a whole month off for winter vacation in January. Starting in January I'll be working days instead of nights. oh my.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Day 374
December 26 Saturday
Love actually is all around
"Love, actually" is on a Korean channel called OnStyle. I'm currently watching it. Its a good Christmas movie.
I've been watching a lot of TV and staying inside. I should be out doing something but sometime I just like sitting around and doing nothing.
I saw an episode of "Tough Love" on tv one day. It's on VH1 in the USA. Now I've been watching the 2nd season. I like it. A matchmaker and his mom put girls through a dating boot camp. All these girls have a problem finding and keeping a guy. He's a really brutally honest person who gives them tough love to help them find their true love. He sets up these girls with dates and puts them through all kind of exercises.
Love actually is all around
"Love, actually" is on a Korean channel called OnStyle. I'm currently watching it. Its a good Christmas movie.
I've been watching a lot of TV and staying inside. I should be out doing something but sometime I just like sitting around and doing nothing.
I saw an episode of "Tough Love" on tv one day. It's on VH1 in the USA. Now I've been watching the 2nd season. I like it. A matchmaker and his mom put girls through a dating boot camp. All these girls have a problem finding and keeping a guy. He's a really brutally honest person who gives them tough love to help them find their true love. He sets up these girls with dates and puts them through all kind of exercises.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Day 373...White Christmas...
Friday December 25
Fact: South Korea is the only East Asian country to recognize Christmas as a national holiday.
The majority of people in South Korea are Buddhist, so Christmas isn't an important festival
Finally a holiday on Friday! Most of our holidays have fallen on Saturday this year which means we didn't get any days off of work. They don't give you the day before or a monday. I'm also off next Friday for new years!
Its my 2nd Christmas away from home. Yep. I missed 2 in a row. I'm not even celebrating this year. I'll probably just sleep all day. It doesn't even feel like Christmas when I'm away from home. I didn't even do anything this year to get into the Christmas spirit. I didn't wear Christmas colors or even decorate my apartment. I didn't buy gifts for anyone. I usually watch "A Christmas Story" a couple of times and force my family to sit down and watch it with me, but I didn't even watch it this year.
Sadly, this year its just another regular day. I slept until 3:30pm.
I decided to venture out to E-Mart for supper. It was packed. One of the biggest retailers in SK didn't shut down for Christmas.
And it started snowing. So we got a white Christmas in South Korea. Just a tiny amount.
Fact: South Korea is the only East Asian country to recognize Christmas as a national holiday.
The majority of people in South Korea are Buddhist, so Christmas isn't an important festival
Finally a holiday on Friday! Most of our holidays have fallen on Saturday this year which means we didn't get any days off of work. They don't give you the day before or a monday. I'm also off next Friday for new years!
Its my 2nd Christmas away from home. Yep. I missed 2 in a row. I'm not even celebrating this year. I'll probably just sleep all day. It doesn't even feel like Christmas when I'm away from home. I didn't even do anything this year to get into the Christmas spirit. I didn't wear Christmas colors or even decorate my apartment. I didn't buy gifts for anyone. I usually watch "A Christmas Story" a couple of times and force my family to sit down and watch it with me, but I didn't even watch it this year.
Sadly, this year its just another regular day. I slept until 3:30pm.
I decided to venture out to E-Mart for supper. It was packed. One of the biggest retailers in SK didn't shut down for Christmas.
And it started snowing. So we got a white Christmas in South Korea. Just a tiny amount.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Day 372
Thursday December 24
Today was just a free day at work. I didn't have any classes, but I still had to be there.
I was bored most of the time. I downloaded a free trial of typing master. I'm trying to improve my typing skills. At one time I got up to 57 wpm with 100% accuracy once. Thats typing on a laptop which is harder than a regular keyboard. Most of the time I was around 50wpm with around 90% accuracy. When I'm doing a typing test I'm concentrating too much on getting faster and I make mistakes. I've just got to keep working on it. I may buy a regular keyboard and hook it up to my laptop so I can practice on a pc keyboard.
I downloaded some things online. I watched "Barbara Walters 10 Most Fascinating People" and the finale of "Sex Rehab" with Dr. Drew.
Around 6:45 me, our team leader, a math teacher and my co teacher went out to eat. I had chicken tenders and it was delicious. They ordered that for me since I don't eat spicy food. They were eating a spicy chicken dish. (Koreans love spicy food..I just never cared for spicy food)
Then they let me leave school at 7:55pm! An hour early!!
At 10pm I met my friend, Lesley, in Itaewon. The place where we wanted to eat was closed for the night so I suggested Gekkos so we went there for a while.
Today was just a free day at work. I didn't have any classes, but I still had to be there.
I was bored most of the time. I downloaded a free trial of typing master. I'm trying to improve my typing skills. At one time I got up to 57 wpm with 100% accuracy once. Thats typing on a laptop which is harder than a regular keyboard. Most of the time I was around 50wpm with around 90% accuracy. When I'm doing a typing test I'm concentrating too much on getting faster and I make mistakes. I've just got to keep working on it. I may buy a regular keyboard and hook it up to my laptop so I can practice on a pc keyboard.
I downloaded some things online. I watched "Barbara Walters 10 Most Fascinating People" and the finale of "Sex Rehab" with Dr. Drew.
Around 6:45 me, our team leader, a math teacher and my co teacher went out to eat. I had chicken tenders and it was delicious. They ordered that for me since I don't eat spicy food. They were eating a spicy chicken dish. (Koreans love spicy food..I just never cared for spicy food)
Then they let me leave school at 7:55pm! An hour early!!
At 10pm I met my friend, Lesley, in Itaewon. The place where we wanted to eat was closed for the night so I suggested Gekkos so we went there for a while.
Day 371
Wednesday December 23
Current Temp: 35 F
Exchange: 1189 krw = 1 usd
I was thinking that today was one of the Christmas party days, but it wasn't. The Tues/Thurs kids get to have a free day and the MWF kids had to work. Anyway I actually had a pretty decent day.
I told my team leader that my washing machine was broken and it was fixed the same day! It now works-I had to do a load to make sure!
The weather was nice again today which was great!
My first class was good. We usually do our newspaper class on Wednesday but I decided to do spelling. We covered a lot of material-2 sets of 10 words.He does good on finding the patterns, but not so good filling in words to the story or the meanings. I just have to give him answers. Maybe he's retaining it somehow. He wasn't tired today which was good.I let him play hangman near the end of class.He guessed by looking at my book.
My 2nd class was good. We went over a few pages in writing. Today we were talking about a letter of invitation. Their assignment during class was to write a letter to their friend inviting them to come over to play. Its funny how the kids will be asking me something and I totally don't understand. They were telling me how the Korean teacher doesn't like when they ask for free time. She gets angry at them. I don't mind when they ask. We finish our lesson first then have free time. Whenever they say that she gets angry they put up devil horns on their head. haha. Then later I didn't understand what a student was asking. He said "what is tomorrow tomorrow?"...I told him Friday...then he said no..so I said Christmas..no...the 25th no...then another student had to explain...yesterday, today, tomorrow-OK--oh the day after tomorrow..Oh the joys of ESL..Some of my students saw my cute erasers in my box. I bring extras so if someone needs one in class (and I give them to students)..they love erasers..i think its cute. I had some new ones that were in the shape of pigs. And I had some colorful ones that were red, black and blue. They all wanted one so I gave all the students one. It makes me happy to see them so excited over something so small. They all thanked me. After class one of the students followed me out of class and asked me to give him another one stealthly(he showed me in his dictionary)..haha. I told him only one per student. They use their korean-english dictionaries on their phone when they don't know the english word. They made me write on the board "this class was excellent." The Korean teacher must be telling them they have to be good in my class. I don't know, but they insisted that I leave a good word about them. (that class is always good)
The 3rd class was good. I didn't need to do a writing lesson this week so I did the newspaper class. They were confused. They told me it was wednesday. We usually do it on Friday.I told them we didnt have class on Friday so I was doing it today. They were good in class. We were able to cover 3 of the articles. We talked about an orangutan who can take photos, a korean actress, and the golden disk awards (korean music awards).
My last class was great today. I wonder what she drugged them with. just kidding. That was a good change. I usually dread that class! Today I prepared 4 articles. We only did 3 articles to reward good behavior. We talked about a pet elephant, a lion, tiger, and bear who were friends at a zoo in England, and the Vatican.They actually listened, they read, they answered questions…great…I let them have a lot of free time…they played games, wrote on board…After class one of the students told the Korean teacher that they had a good study all class…so I think she’s asking the students to be good in my class and they are listening! Great! Keep threatening them for me!
I learned some new facts. I just thought the Vatican was a building where the pope lived. Vatican city is actually a country. They have their own post office and issue their own stamps. They even issue their own passports. They are one of the smallest countries with less than 1,000 residents. They use Latin, Italian and French as their languages.
I don't have any classes tomorrow!! I still have to be there though...Then its a 3 day weekend. I don't have any plans at all. I need to find something to do at least one day. Or I could just sleep all day. but I do need to get out.
Me and my friend Lesley are going out to eat Thursday night in Itaewon. We're both lonely and missing our 2nd Christmas away from home so we decided to get together to hangout on Christmas eve. We are going to a place called Macaroni Market.
Current Temp: 35 F
Exchange: 1189 krw = 1 usd
I was thinking that today was one of the Christmas party days, but it wasn't. The Tues/Thurs kids get to have a free day and the MWF kids had to work. Anyway I actually had a pretty decent day.
I told my team leader that my washing machine was broken and it was fixed the same day! It now works-I had to do a load to make sure!
The weather was nice again today which was great!
My first class was good. We usually do our newspaper class on Wednesday but I decided to do spelling. We covered a lot of material-2 sets of 10 words.He does good on finding the patterns, but not so good filling in words to the story or the meanings. I just have to give him answers. Maybe he's retaining it somehow. He wasn't tired today which was good.I let him play hangman near the end of class.He guessed by looking at my book.
My 2nd class was good. We went over a few pages in writing. Today we were talking about a letter of invitation. Their assignment during class was to write a letter to their friend inviting them to come over to play. Its funny how the kids will be asking me something and I totally don't understand. They were telling me how the Korean teacher doesn't like when they ask for free time. She gets angry at them. I don't mind when they ask. We finish our lesson first then have free time. Whenever they say that she gets angry they put up devil horns on their head. haha. Then later I didn't understand what a student was asking. He said "what is tomorrow tomorrow?"...I told him Friday...then he said no..so I said Christmas..no...the 25th no...then another student had to explain...yesterday, today, tomorrow-OK--oh the day after tomorrow..Oh the joys of ESL..Some of my students saw my cute erasers in my box. I bring extras so if someone needs one in class (and I give them to students)..they love erasers..i think its cute. I had some new ones that were in the shape of pigs. And I had some colorful ones that were red, black and blue. They all wanted one so I gave all the students one. It makes me happy to see them so excited over something so small. They all thanked me. After class one of the students followed me out of class and asked me to give him another one stealthly(he showed me in his dictionary)..haha. I told him only one per student. They use their korean-english dictionaries on their phone when they don't know the english word. They made me write on the board "this class was excellent." The Korean teacher must be telling them they have to be good in my class. I don't know, but they insisted that I leave a good word about them. (that class is always good)
The 3rd class was good. I didn't need to do a writing lesson this week so I did the newspaper class. They were confused. They told me it was wednesday. We usually do it on Friday.I told them we didnt have class on Friday so I was doing it today. They were good in class. We were able to cover 3 of the articles. We talked about an orangutan who can take photos, a korean actress, and the golden disk awards (korean music awards).
My last class was great today. I wonder what she drugged them with. just kidding. That was a good change. I usually dread that class! Today I prepared 4 articles. We only did 3 articles to reward good behavior. We talked about a pet elephant, a lion, tiger, and bear who were friends at a zoo in England, and the Vatican.They actually listened, they read, they answered questions…great…I let them have a lot of free time…they played games, wrote on board…After class one of the students told the Korean teacher that they had a good study all class…so I think she’s asking the students to be good in my class and they are listening! Great! Keep threatening them for me!
I learned some new facts. I just thought the Vatican was a building where the pope lived. Vatican city is actually a country. They have their own post office and issue their own stamps. They even issue their own passports. They are one of the smallest countries with less than 1,000 residents. They use Latin, Italian and French as their languages.
I don't have any classes tomorrow!! I still have to be there though...Then its a 3 day weekend. I don't have any plans at all. I need to find something to do at least one day. Or I could just sleep all day. but I do need to get out.
Me and my friend Lesley are going out to eat Thursday night in Itaewon. We're both lonely and missing our 2nd Christmas away from home so we decided to get together to hangout on Christmas eve. We are going to a place called Macaroni Market.
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