I said goodbye to my MWF classes today. Even though I was in a surprisingly good mood today, I still felt really sad to be losing these students.
After spending the better part of the last 6 months with these students, you really develop a bond with most of them, so it was harder than I thought it would be to say goodbye to them as their teacher. Of course, I'll still see most of them in the hallways so it's not terrible, just.........different.
Today I took a whole bunch of pictures with my camera - yep I'm bringing it out of storage! - but I don't think I'll be sharing them on this blog. Safety issues.
Ah well, change is hard but I've got to get ready for my new classes starting this Friday. I've already been told that I'm getting at least one awesome class from my friend Chris - he told me that they're great workers and really fun, so I'm looking forward to that class. I just hope my other classes will be much easier for me to handle compared to the classes I started out with in March.
Tomorrow is the last day for 4 of our teachers and already I'm starting to feel a little sad! They will definitely be missed, especially since they've done a lot for this campus and its students. I wonder what will happen to this school once they leave...
Anyways, its late and I should really sleep. Insomnia - and not the Craig David song (which I love by the way) - is not a kind friend...
Aug 22 2009
|
Alright.
Let's get this going again. >.<
It's been such a long time since I've updated, though I do have some good reasons why I have been MIA. This last month has been crazy busy since our school has what are called Intensive classes every January and August. (This is because Korean kids are off from school during these months so they often sign up for extra classes at school so they can advance to a higher level much faster than usual).
The Intensives classes vary for each campus and we had about 8 or 9 different classes for this month. Depending on the class you taught, on an intensive class day you'd work from 8:30am (planning time 8:30-9:00am) to 8pm, with only one 2hr break for lunch and some more planning time - needless to say those days were exhausting. I had an intensive class day twice a week (Tues/Thurs) so it wasn't too tiring, and I actually really enjoyed my class. I taught a speech class, and I had about 7 students in all. Most of them were awesome - really sweet and hardworking, which made my job so much easier! Yesterday was the last class, so I had my students choose a country to research for homework and then make a poster and speech to present to the class. I'm a little sad that the class is finished, but I will be teaching 2 students from that class when I get my new schedule for September/October/November.
This coming week is the last few days of teaching for 4 teachers at our campus, and I will be sad to see them to go. It's kind of weird to go from seeing someone every weekday (and sometimes on the weekends) and then not seeing them again - sort of the same feeling I had when I first came here. We are getting 2 new full time teachers and 1 part time teacher, so hopefully the school will still run smoothly :)
I've also been joining Clara and Hyunjin and Heebeom at their UBF church in Sinchon, Seoul - and the people there are so amazing and welcoming! The service is all in Korean, but for the sermon they have a translator at the back that I can listen to as the preacher is speaking (both Clara and I use the translator). Tomorrow, I'm going to check out a church in Suwon (a lot closer, and it has English), just to see what its like. :)
When I figure out and organize the pictures I have taken so far, I promise to upload them ASAP. Right now I'm gonna go make me some delicious dinner.
Let's get this going again. >.<
It's been such a long time since I've updated, though I do have some good reasons why I have been MIA. This last month has been crazy busy since our school has what are called Intensive classes every January and August. (This is because Korean kids are off from school during these months so they often sign up for extra classes at school so they can advance to a higher level much faster than usual).
The Intensives classes vary for each campus and we had about 8 or 9 different classes for this month. Depending on the class you taught, on an intensive class day you'd work from 8:30am (planning time 8:30-9:00am) to 8pm, with only one 2hr break for lunch and some more planning time - needless to say those days were exhausting. I had an intensive class day twice a week (Tues/Thurs) so it wasn't too tiring, and I actually really enjoyed my class. I taught a speech class, and I had about 7 students in all. Most of them were awesome - really sweet and hardworking, which made my job so much easier! Yesterday was the last class, so I had my students choose a country to research for homework and then make a poster and speech to present to the class. I'm a little sad that the class is finished, but I will be teaching 2 students from that class when I get my new schedule for September/October/November.
This coming week is the last few days of teaching for 4 teachers at our campus, and I will be sad to see them to go. It's kind of weird to go from seeing someone every weekday (and sometimes on the weekends) and then not seeing them again - sort of the same feeling I had when I first came here. We are getting 2 new full time teachers and 1 part time teacher, so hopefully the school will still run smoothly :)
I've also been joining Clara and Hyunjin and Heebeom at their UBF church in Sinchon, Seoul - and the people there are so amazing and welcoming! The service is all in Korean, but for the sermon they have a translator at the back that I can listen to as the preacher is speaking (both Clara and I use the translator). Tomorrow, I'm going to check out a church in Suwon (a lot closer, and it has English), just to see what its like. :)
When I figure out and organize the pictures I have taken so far, I promise to upload them ASAP. Right now I'm gonna go make me some delicious dinner.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)