Adventure and the loss of innocence…
Well my second week in Korea has gone much better than my first. On Tuesday my classes went really well. My kids were participating, they were laughing, and they, as remarkable as it sounds, were having fun. Before going on with this post I think it would be good to give you a break down of my classes. My first class is EC-3 or English Chip 3. They range from young kindergartners to third and fourth graders. Each class we read from a story book called the missing coins. This story, in my opinion, is kind of boring and not very much fun. In the story a shopkeeper loses a set of coins. Are you titillated yet? Two students traveling come across the shop keeper and help him solve the mystery of the missing coins. If your interest is aroused my hat goes off to you? The story bores the crap out of me and my students. I try to make the class more lively through dumb games, word associations, and spelling races. This often works and I think my students are starting to expect a game every day at the end of class. My second class is bridge. Bridge is your standard language class. We read a passage, discuss it, etc. My students are mostly middle schoolers and they’re going through that awkward stage of self discovery. Most of them don’t talk and I am left drifting alone in awkward silence. On Tuesday I told my students I would fail them if they didn’t participate. This livened them up a bit and we began to talk about EPL. This was very exciting and I found out that none of my students like Manchester United. Hell yeah. There isn’t very much else that has happened this week. Last night I went out with some American and English chaps and drank a little. We talked about Spaced, british television, and recreational drug use. It was stimulating conversation. This weekend I plan on going to a Buddhist temple to get my Zen on. WOOT WOOT…..
