First Day of Work

I will have to come back and add pictures because I forgot my Camera on the first day.

Anyways I will start by saying the school is absolutely beautiful it is a very modern school and it is very idyllic of what they think that the schools are like in North America. Each class sits up to 12 students in a U shaped formation of desks. There is a really cool hybrid black board at the front that is the colour of a black board but uses white white board markers that are dust and allergy free to write on the board. Each of the rooms is named after an ivy league collage in either Canada or the USA. So my first classes yesterday were in Yale, Harvard, UCLA, MIT, UofT etc.

The other thing that is important to mention is that the school is not an actual school it is more of an extra curricular school. Accept for the Kinders are 2-5 and do accelerated English school and the 2 0'clock special class that gets credits for their English work, the school is more a just an extra curricular option.

The way that this works is actually very similar to when I taught swimming lessons. There are there types of classes these are your regular level classes where they go through English phonics books, than there are the classes I think 6 or 8 levels of easy reader books, than there are special classes that you teach everyday, and they are usually no more than 3 or 4 students. Than there are also private lessons for students who want to accelerate their English or need remedial assistance.

So the school is a lot of work there are on average 8 classes a day on Mon, Wed, Friday and on Tuesday and Thursday only teach part or half days. The students are for the most part really cute. They try so hard with their English. One of the cutest things that they do is so many of them when you ask a question will end their answer with "that is all". "You will be like How was your weekend?" they will answer " It was good, I practiced piano and went to math academy, that is all."

The other thing that takes a lot of getting use to is the cultural differences students and education standards are very different in Korea. The Students will randomly pull out a cap gun in class and start shooting each other. Or they will have a plastic sword fight in class. I find it so different from back home because at home that would get someone in a lot of trouble, here all I can do is ask them to put it away.