interview tears

this time an interview situation has resulted in tears. not mine!

I had to interview for an english reporter for our school broadcast. Again painful silence was endured after the first question. despite my friendly prompts! afew minutes later the tears started but we did establish that she was born in australia and that she doesnt like kimchi!

today was hilarious a girl in my 5th grade is a comic genius... see attached picture. she had to write her own dialogue based on the situation in the pictures for the statements she wrote ! for the questions she put a ? ~ absolutely pure comic genius!

also today one 5th grade student suddenly shouted that he loved me! ha ha so cute. my co~teacher said it must be his real mind as he didnt laugh afterwards!

School Paper Interview

Had a gruelling interview with the School

Newspaper... It was So Cute the girl came andsaid... ''Question" after 10Mins we were no Further forward! i tried everything. to get her to ask the question! i even got her a chair! After much prompting Google translate and my poor Korean the question was asked you... why did you come to korea ? I kept. the answer short for obvious reasons!!!

Moving in!

Finally moving in to our new place!

I came home from work to collect my stuff from ok gils house with some chocolate for the kids..
Expecting to have lots of boxes to move go find that most of it has gone... but no one here!

Gong rang after 10 mins to say she would be back in 20 mins!

So just waiting now.

Hopefully the furniture is already there.

Really looking forward go the new place!♥♥♥

Our apartment

Our apartment on the 5th floor

Spent the day cleaning the apartment!

It was dirty and took allday

Cute faces / White day / Steve jobs from Microsoft!

Today i taught the principle, yesterday I was told 9:00am but apparently I was meant to be there at 8:35 - she didn't seem to mind, the 40 mins went quickly as she showed me photo's of all her holidays... rather than the english lesson I had prepared...


Today is `White day`...  a kind of  korean valentines day so on the way home I purchased to specially packaged sweets for the occasion, one for nuna and one for ji gong! I was a little unsure of the correct protocol of white day but she seemed pleased!

Today I also taught 2 periods of 3rd grade!! - Ha ha they were so cute!  but at that age they need songs... repetitive songs.. Hi Hi Hi I'm kevin, nice to meet you kevin bye bye bye kevin! etc etc....  They loved it,but really not my thing!  The kids however were very cute,  I got given some biscuits and a chupa chup lolly, not sure if that is for white day or just because they were pleased to see me! However they squealed with delight when I said Anyong!

I looked through some of the teaching materials we have at school and this one caught my eye...
A picture of Bill Gates with a windows logo, labelled as Steve Jobs!!  He will be turning in his grave!

Special Needs!

I found out I have a special needs kids in one of my sixth grade classes... I found this out when I tried to find out why he wasn't doing the  tasks in class.  It wasn't initially obvious... sometimes the inane grinning at my requests in English are due to the novelty of  my being a foreignerand not having a high level of Enlish rather than learning difficulties so i persevered, until the rest of the kids and finally the teacher told me that he "just cant do it, he is not normal"  .

I feel some kind of responsibility, but I guess that responsibility lies with the school not me.  they have a special education program for him in which covers Korean and maths but not english.  It seems unfair and pointless to put him through so many hours a week of classes if he is getting no benefit from it... I dont want to exclude him I want to find a way of including him.  I know there is a special care teacher at the school as  I answered the phone once when she called and she seemed to speak English quite well.  Maybe I will message her about a plan for him...

I was quite surprised that it wasn't mentioned before.