a day in the life

We haven't really been up to much lately, so I thought I would just post a schedule of our standard work day.

9.50am:  Start work

Generally we would arrive at work and get told by our Korean Kindergarton partner what we had to do for kindergarton that morning.

10am: Kindergarton

Kindergarton lasts around 80-90 minutes.  Pretty much you get there, take attendance, ask all the students how they are today (answers : i am happy, i am angry, i am so so).  Then story time, it takes 10minutes to read 4 pages of a story with them repeating after you.  The hardest part is probably getting them to sit still on the mat.

Then maybe you would have some language activity (for example : "what is it" "it is a scissors") and then it's time for a toilet break.  Toilet break is kind of weird because you can't close the doors to the toilets and my girls always look at the wee boys using the urinal and giggle.

Then game time.  Then math time.  This is less math and more learn to write the number 4 etc (down, across and down again - that makes number 4!) and then colouring.  Or coloring, as we're now bound to spell.

At 11.15 it's snack time.  My favourite part.  Generally consists of a drink or some sort and some food.  Today was a muffin and some orange juice (in Korea muffins go straight up).  Yesterday was a cookie and a little yoghurt drink.

At 11.30 we go back to our desks and usually write lesson plans etc until 12.50.  

12.50: Lunch

We go home.  Cam checks the cricket score, then cooks us lunch.  Sometimes we go to FusionChina for some Ja Jung Myon.

2.00: Back to school, for more sitting around/lesson plans.

2.40:  Class 1, first half.

We take 3 classes a day, each have 2 parts.  We spend one part with one class, and then move to another, swapping with a Korean teacher.

The first class is usually the younger (and dumber) students.  You spend half the lesson making sure they've done their homework and assigning them new stuff.

3.20: Class 1 second half

Generally similar to first half except you don't have to check homework and instead play games for most of it.

4.10: Class 2 first half

Similar to above but slighty better at english

4.50: Class 2 second half

See above.

5.40: Class 3 first half

These are the funner classes because they're still kids, but they're a bit older and more fun.  And they're almost fluent in English, they can pretty much find some way of explaining anything to you, which is cool.

6.20: Class 3 second half

My second half class are so amazing.  And they had a surprise birthday party for me where they all brought chips and candy and fanta, and someone's mum (mom) brought us 2 pizzas (on both the topping was potato).  It was really fun.

7.00: Home time