Monday, December 17th,
2012 – Friday, December 21st, 2012
Week four of teaching, this week I felt I had the chance to
get to know my students a little bit better and connect with a few of them. I have determined Tuesday is going to
be my challenging day because I have a couple of bad classes. When teachers in the past would say,
“oh, you are such a good class,” or “you are such a bad class” I never totally
understood what they meant until now!
It is a true pleasure to teach the good classes. There is a completely different class
dynamic with the bad classes and unfortunately the odd good students in the bad
classes are the ones who suffer.
Wednesday was a
public holiday for the presidential elections. My second school was closed for the holiday but I was of
course working at the other one, which was still open. Since it was a public holiday, fewer
students were present which is partly why I had the chance to give more
attention to the kids who were there and get to know them better. At my second school this week, my
classes were finally the same from the week before! Of course next week is the kids winter break from school so
my schedule will change around again and confuse me some more.
I saw Aimee once this week; we went out for dinner and went
to listen to some live music. We wanted to find Korean food so we could expand
our pallets for Korean food. After
many failed attempts to find a restaurant by looking at the menu entirely in
Korean and seeing the prices, we ended up eating Mexican!
On Friday, one of my co-teachers had a little Christmas
party with her students. It was
really cute seeing them all eating food and listening to Christmas music. At Christmas parties when I was a kid,
there would be chips and cookies, and pop. At this party, they had chips and pop, along with fried
squid and other fried foods and ramen noodles. A bit bizarre compared to what I am used to but still fun
for them. I taught the kids some
English Christmas songs all week as our little holiday activity! They weren’t as excited about it as I
thought they would be haha.
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