My Second School

I have been teaching at my second of three schools today and yesterday. This one is my favorite so far. It is a bit smaller so my classes do not really exceed 12 students. This makes it fun because we can play more games and be a little more personal. Larger classes are harder to teach, especially making sure every student is understanding the concept I am teaching. It is easier for the student to hide in a way in a larger class.

I did see something interesting yesterday. I saw a student outside the window of the teacher's office pee! He just stopped and watered the plants! I was a little taken back by this. He was younger, probably kindergarten or first grade. It was quite a shock though.

I have been letting every class pick one sticker from a bunch of stickers I brought. They really enjoy this. I figured they would be excited about the Hello Kitty, and these Transformer like stickers. They were actually more interested in these MILK themed stickers with cows and jugs of milk all over them. I thought this was neat.

Other than school and looking for lesson plans I have not been up to much. My Internet in my apartment is working so this makes it easier for me to communicate to you guys. I also start classes for Accounting next week which I am very excited about. I have a lot of downtime in between classes for preparing lessons and such so whenever I have everything ready to go for class I can do whatever I like. This is usually the time I use to send emails, post blogs, and study Korean!

I am learning the alphabet and trying to spell. Once I get this part down I will start translating the words and trying to read. French was easier because it used the roman alphabet like English. With Korean I have to change the letter to a roman letter, then translate the word into English. There is an extra step. Most people here, especially the teachers understand very basic English from what they teach the students. I want to be able to understand what they are saying that is why I am trying to learn. It is weird being the only one who cannot understand!

I know three words now:

Ne (Yes)

An-nyeong-ha-se-yo? (The equivalent of good morning, good evening, good afternoon, how are you, they only have one saying for all four of these phrases)

Kam-sa-ham-ni-da (Thank you)