Halloween was a blast. There are a ton of pictures around facebook of that absolute craziness, so hop on over there to check them out. I might try to put them on here if I have the time, but it’s just so much easier to upload them there.
There was one negative about Halloween though, and that [...]
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Winter and the school…
Posted in GEPIK, Korea, tagged weather on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Co-Teaching and 6th graders
Posted in GEPIK, Teaching, tagged grade 6, school on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lead with something strong, right? 6th graders are spawn of Satan. You’re basically looking at disrespectful, talkative, prepubescent bags of skin that just strive to make your life a little more interesting. I don’t know one GEPIK teacher who looks at their 6th grade class and thinks “this is gonna be a great class.” It’s [...]
School food
Posted in GEPIK, tagged food, school on October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ll admit, finishing your work day at 12:10 is pretty damn sweet. There’s nothing more to that. I really enjoy my Tuesdays. The third graders are still of that age when the worst that they really do is not pay attention. That’s a lot easier to handle than most of the stuff the older kids [...]
The Lions Den
Posted in GEPIK, tagged teachers on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was not a good day.
Imagine this… you walk into a room and there’s 30 sedated lions sitting there. The lion tamer tells you not to worry, because as long as they don’t hear any loud noises, they’ll be perfect little angels, and he’s here to help anyway. Then the tamer remembers that he left [...]
Maybe there can be too much free time…
Posted in GEPIK, tagged school on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nope, haven’t completely given up on the blog yet. If anything, because I don’t work with another native English teacher, this is about my only consistent means of venting anymore. I realized that yesterday.
So I welcome my newfound determination on this, but I also admit there’s a good chance that this won’t last too long. [...]
