Teaching in Korea
Do You like Oranges?
It sounds like an innocent question. But actually it turned into a uniquely Korean situation. Lately I’ve taken up swimming in the mornings. It’s a really nice way to start my day. I show up at the pool next to my school at 7 AM and usually I get the lap lane all to myself. After ...
The Week In Review…
The good … Surprise pay for teacher training was double what I expected. It was even sweeter that the pay came on Friday and my Head Teacher let me leave early to get a Canadian dollar money order from the bank. Now I can send off my criminal record check and start gearing up for ...
Halfway there…
I’m now finished my vacation, and I’m back at the school. I had a open class just four days into the new semester.Thankfully it’s my final one of the year. For anyone who doesn’t know, an open class is basically a teaching demonstration. Teachers from other schools as well as a supervisor or two from ...
A strange thing happened today…
I look in the mirror. There’s something strange and foreign about the face staring back at me. It’s smiling at me! I’m smiling! I’m happy! In less than 24 hours I will be on vacation! 아 싸! My camps all went really well, I taught my elementary school students Green Eggs and Ham, then we ...
It’s Not Like Being Tickled by Angels…
FUHK! FUUUUUUUUUHK! WHAT THE FUHHHHHHHK? SHIT! SERIOUSLY!!! WHAT THE FUHHHHHK! I had a real stinging pain in my left arm and at first I thought somehow a rock flicked up from the road and got me right on the bicep. At first I didn’t say anything, but that feeling didn’t go away. Instead it intensified ...
Back in 2030
In August I will conducting some teacher training, specifically I’ll be working on ‘Teaching Reading in Korea’. Although I was given the task last month, I drove off the actual writing until this past week. It’s not like I haven’t been working, actually a lot of background reading and internet research went into it. But ...