As of September 12th, I have been in Korea for one month. I started working here on August 12th. So, far it has not been that great. I have been exhausted. I keep getting sick germs from the kids. I can't seem to manage my classes. MISERY!!!!
I got paid for the first time. It was below the amount I was suppose to earn. I hate hagwons. All the expats have been telling me that it gets better. I sure hope so. I crashed and burned for the first time yesterday regarding a class I was substituting for. I was frustrated with the organization of this stupid worksheet and I made the students angry because I did not know what to do with the worksheet. I was trying to follow it exactly as I had observed her using it. Not even. MISERY!!!
On another note, I had been directing a short play for some first graders. One of the girls fathers recently died from lung cancer. I had no idea that this little girl was going through such troubled times. I felt so sad. What if I were her? I hope she get's plenty of support so she doesn't grow up with mental issues as an adult.
The rest of the girls performed their play on Thursday. I read some of their diaries about the event and they seemed to have a lot of fun. It took several of us to manage them but the play worked out nicely. In the beginning, only the parents were expected to come so the teachers took the extra mile to invite all of the Kindergarten classes. There were SO many little kindergarten kids. I was like...OMG. I have taught all of these kids at least once. I was so amused that this school could manage to fit all of these students AND parents into this medium size room but it worked! I wish I had taken a picture of it.
Funny story but no so funny story. As the teacher, I am required to call out these girls Korean names for their award certificates at the end of the play. I learn about this on the day of the event and so I have no time to practice. I am Korean illiterate so I am pronouncing choi as cho and other wrong ways in front of the parents and all of these little kids. I hope the only thing they were thinking was...silly foreigner...
Speaking of pictures. I have a laptop, kindle and camera in my apartment. I brought all the chargers for these things. I have all the charging equipment for my computer. For some reason, I no longer have the chargers for the kindle or my camera so I am forced to buy an extra pair. I don't know how I manage to replace or misplace everything that I touch. It's terrible. So, I am unable to upload any pictures I took with my camera. I am so sorry for those waiting to see some pictures...I will put them up as soon as I receive another computer cord for my camera.......
Koreans are funny. Why must everything go in a bag? I have a bag of many many bags that I have collected from my purchases. Stop giving me bags. >:/ Why did my dinner of "pasta" taste like it was covered in sugar? How come some Korean food is so sweet.....or hot? Not all Korean food is like this but I'm always tasting sugar in everything...this is just like processed American food. Ugh...
It's Korean thanksgiving this coming week! I want to make plans for an actual vacation but I am not sure how much I can afford to spend since I just paid for other expenses such as my rent, airplane and stuff I ordered for my apartment. There are plenty of other things to see around my city. I'll take pictures and post them for sure.
I got paid for the first time. It was below the amount I was suppose to earn. I hate hagwons. All the expats have been telling me that it gets better. I sure hope so. I crashed and burned for the first time yesterday regarding a class I was substituting for. I was frustrated with the organization of this stupid worksheet and I made the students angry because I did not know what to do with the worksheet. I was trying to follow it exactly as I had observed her using it. Not even. MISERY!!!
On another note, I had been directing a short play for some first graders. One of the girls fathers recently died from lung cancer. I had no idea that this little girl was going through such troubled times. I felt so sad. What if I were her? I hope she get's plenty of support so she doesn't grow up with mental issues as an adult.
The rest of the girls performed their play on Thursday. I read some of their diaries about the event and they seemed to have a lot of fun. It took several of us to manage them but the play worked out nicely. In the beginning, only the parents were expected to come so the teachers took the extra mile to invite all of the Kindergarten classes. There were SO many little kindergarten kids. I was like...OMG. I have taught all of these kids at least once. I was so amused that this school could manage to fit all of these students AND parents into this medium size room but it worked! I wish I had taken a picture of it.
Funny story but no so funny story. As the teacher, I am required to call out these girls Korean names for their award certificates at the end of the play. I learn about this on the day of the event and so I have no time to practice. I am Korean illiterate so I am pronouncing choi as cho and other wrong ways in front of the parents and all of these little kids. I hope the only thing they were thinking was...silly foreigner...
Speaking of pictures. I have a laptop, kindle and camera in my apartment. I brought all the chargers for these things. I have all the charging equipment for my computer. For some reason, I no longer have the chargers for the kindle or my camera so I am forced to buy an extra pair. I don't know how I manage to replace or misplace everything that I touch. It's terrible. So, I am unable to upload any pictures I took with my camera. I am so sorry for those waiting to see some pictures...I will put them up as soon as I receive another computer cord for my camera.......
Koreans are funny. Why must everything go in a bag? I have a bag of many many bags that I have collected from my purchases. Stop giving me bags. >:/ Why did my dinner of "pasta" taste like it was covered in sugar? How come some Korean food is so sweet.....or hot? Not all Korean food is like this but I'm always tasting sugar in everything...this is just like processed American food. Ugh...
It's Korean thanksgiving this coming week! I want to make plans for an actual vacation but I am not sure how much I can afford to spend since I just paid for other expenses such as my rent, airplane and stuff I ordered for my apartment. There are plenty of other things to see around my city. I'll take pictures and post them for sure.
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