As you can guess by the title, there’s been some changes that quite honestly I don’t know how to take yet. But let’s catch up with everything else first: Gyeonju was interesting, educational, a ton of exercise… and cold. Bone chilling cold. The one day that I had to really get out and see the [...]
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Ah man… really? Hey thanks for nothing there GEPIK….
Posted in GEPIK, Oops, Teaching, tagged co-teaching, Oops, school on February 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Back to work…
Posted in GEPIK, Teaching, tagged activities, co-teaching on February 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
After nearly six weeks of not doing really doing much outside of winter camp, I just finished up my first week of school after break. It wasn’t even a full week either, because on Monday the kids just popped in for a couple of hours to drop off their homework before running home again. Of [...]
Winter Camp
Posted in GEPIK, Teaching, tagged camp, school on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m about to finish up my second week of winter camp here. It’s a nice mix of frustration and great times. The way that it’s been set up is that I get a group of students from a one of the grades, regardless of level. On top of that, because I didn’t know the students [...]
Random thoughts from the cold…
Posted in Korea, Teaching, tagged cold, weather on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not particularly hard to describe a Korean winter. Two words: cold, dry. That’s all you really need. But that really doesn’t do it justice. This is by far the coldest place that I’ve ever lived. I describe a Korean Winter as “curse inducing.” It’s the type of cold where you walk outside and the [...]
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 [...]
One week in Anyang… and some notes
Posted in Korea, Matt, Teaching, tagged Anyang, money on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a weird situation. That’s about my conclusion about this place so far. I don’t particularly mean the town… from what I can tell, it’s a nice enough place. There’s no big markets around me, so getting certain food items is tough. Never thought I’d see a market not sell spaghetti, but my little corner [...]
Farewell Ansan?
Posted in Teaching, tagged Ansan, Anyang on January 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well I don’t really need a question mark here honestly. Turns out that my school has hit a bit of a hard stretch. We’ve been losing students by the truckload, in every class. They’ve started consolidating classes because we’re so low in every class. So you can guess what’s about to happen… So my boss [...]
6 months in…
Posted in Korea, Matt, Teaching on November 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Been here for a good amount of time now, and I’ll tell you this, there’s a lot of give and take. This place is odd, and there’s not really another way to describe it. I’ve been doing a lot of reflection over this past week, because quite frankly, there hasn’t been a fat lot else [...]
Attempt at a picture dump…
Posted in Teaching, tagged Pictures on October 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Figured it was time to see if I could get pictures back up on this site… Oh my crazy Junior kids… This is pretty normal behavior quite honestly. On the right, you can see Pete booking it for home. I snapped this just as the bell rang. These girls are God’s gift to my sanity. [...]
Level Tests…
Posted in Matt, Teaching, tagged tests on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These are God’s gift to Youngdo teachers. Imagine this… all of a sudden, you don’t have to think about what I am teaching the kids for a good chunk of time, because you’re not teaching. It’s standardized testing time!!! It’s cute too, because the little kids panic and sweat when you give it to them. [...]
