Post MLasek operation 15hrs

Having my eyeballs cut and lasered...

So today I will have laser eye surgery... at the moment I am just on my way to work, as normal. I will leave work 1hr early and go home for a quick shower... then at 5:30 they will do the operation.

I have been exited all week at the prospect of restored vision, but also aware that afterwards it is going to hurt... a lot.
But, since last night I have been feeling a bit nervous. When you think of the procedure; cutting the eye ball with a knife then doing some fancy shit with a laser it is quite horrifying. But I am thankful my procedure is not the one where they scrub the eyeball to wear down the cornea... that physically makes me sick, to think about!

They recovery time is expected to be a couple of days, which is good as I am back to work on monday and have an open class on tuesday!

The EYE...

Well hopefully next time I write this blog I can do it with out glassess and will be fully recovered from the surgery...

Parent's day on Parents' day....

On Wednesday I had the afternoon off work to attend Harvey's School parent's day and open class.  It was also Parents' day.

It was great to be able to attend as I missed the previous ones as I had to work!

Not only was I the only foreigner (외국인) but I was also the only Daddy...

Here is my son respectfully singing to me...

Harvey's school parents' day 1

On Wednesday I had the afternoon off work to attend Harvey's School parent's day and open class.  It was also Parents' day.

It was great to be able to attend as I missed the previous ones as I had to work!

Not only was I the only foreigner (외국인) but I was also the only Daddy...

Here is my son respectfully singing to me...

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ESL Variation of What's the time Mr Wolf for the classroom

I am currently teaching grade 4 about telling the time and needed a fun game to play.
I remember playing   What's the time Mr Wolf   at school, as a child.  

I would love to take the kids outside and play this as a class activity, but I think my co-teachers would explode in shock at such a radical suggestion (this is Korea, after all)

If you don't remember how to play, here is a link :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_the_time,_Mr_Wolf%3F

This classic English playground game involves a lot of running around and chasing and is 

not suitable for a classroom... 

However, 

I have found a way that we can play this in the classroom.

The teacher or one pupil is the wolf, facing away from the group.

(easy version) 

The students pick a time andhold up 1 to 10 fingers, 1 arm in the air for 11, two arms in the air for 12 or 

(more difficult version) 

make their arms in a clock position. e.g. right arm up left arm to the side for 3 o'clock.

The class say "What's the time Mr Wolf?"
Mr Wolf says a time, e.g. "It's 3 o'clock".  Anyone who made 3 o'clock becomes the wolf.
Then either those students have to sit down and are out - or we swap the wolf, wolf can choose who will be the next wolf if there is more than 1 person out.

I will blog again about how well this works as a classroom activity.

Lunch 14/03/2013

First meal of the school year...