So I started a couple blogs in the last couple weeks but for some reason never posted em. So here is my come back... you ready???
My friends and I went to Suwon yesterday to check out the Fortress.. Its nice to get out of Seoul and do something different every once and a while. I have wanted to get away for the past couple weeks so I was happy to have this opportunity. Yesterday was SOOO fun! great weather, great laughs, great people great pictures taken. We even tried "Bondeagi" - those gross smelling silk worms that I had been eyeing the entire year i was here before. I also want to try live octopus but that will have to happen another time. When I am here I like to keep busy. At home I could sit in front of the tv or my computer all day long.. Here I feel motivated to go places, do things, be someone different then who was before. I guess this is a good thing right? I want every weekend to be filled with new experiences and great memories.. thats what its all about right?
FOOTBALL WOOT WOOT!!
So last week we went to watch the North Korea Vs. South Korea Soccer match. It was super fun and ended up being quite the drunken debacle for a lot of us. Which ended up making the next day not the best working day.. haha. Anyways, the stadium was loaded and full of cheering, druming and drunken fools yelling things in korean and english (sometimes) I took a bunch of videos.. Thats another thing that I promised myself this Seoul visit. Take more videos!!! they are so fun to watch later!!
Kids!!!
I have been here for a little over a month now, and my students are already TOTALLY different then when I first started teaching them. It truly is amazing how fast they learn and change.
My legacy with them will hopefully be giving them some sort of independance. When I leave them, they will feel confident enough to do their buttons up on their own, to open their juice boxes, chip bags and any other container on their own. I like to teach them how to do things on their own. I think its so important to do at a young age. I have been teaching them so many things that is NOT in the curriculum, that i sometimes wonder how i get the actual work books done at all.
Some of the kids that I found super annoying in the last couple weeks are starting to be killer kids. Anna had a lot of attitude before, but now she is listening more, wanting to help others and speaks really good english. SHe even understands sarcasm which is hilarious.
Eugene is a little girl who is super duper shy and would cling to me every day. She crys super easy and you have to watch her a lot and make sure she does her work. THis past week she has been finishing her work, talking more, laughing and making funny faces. I love it when she says "Teacher, what is DIS?" she is super adoarable. She used to kiss my arm a lot, and pett it the entire lesson. I try to get her to stop but i hink i am going to just accept it that i have an arm petter beside me. apparently her mother says that she just "likes me a lot" thats why she pets me every day haha.
Andrew is one of my favs. He is unique and a free spirit! when he is finished his work he smiles and shows me. he says things like "im too good at at this" "This is too easy". but he is also soo sensitive. One time we were working on dislikes and likes and he thought i said i disliked him. he started to bawl and thought i hated him. I felt so bad!! I hugged him a tone of times and told him that he was a good boy and that I loved him. poor little dude. Later i noticed that he does this with a lot of teachers, if they done praise him enough or he misunderstands them. I now know he just wants a hug and to be told that someone loves him. A little sad but really cute.
I taught the class how to make cubes the other day. From then on andrew says "teacher I want to make a cube" he loves his cubes! hes just so proud of the things he accomplishes and I cant help but be proud. "I DID IT" he always yells. He also likes to dance for the class. in the middle of a lesson he will get up and dance. the kids think hes funny, i think hes hilarious so, yeah i let him dance for a while. haha hes the best! He is also so inquisitive. Wants to know "why" for EVERYTHING. and as annoying as it could be, its actually not. He is just genuinly intersted in everything. I find myself teaching so many different hings to the students just because they are intersted and want to know about it.
Some funny andrew quotes:
Me: "carry on"
Monica: "what is carry on, is it from Canada?"
Andrew: "no its from Brazil!!"
Me: "um... okaaay?"
Me: "What do you like to do on your birthday?"
Andrew: "Teacher, I like sand."
Monica is such a special little one. She needs to be reassured about everything. Whether it is if shes good, or if her name is going into the Onyx box. She will tell the class if they are being bad, shes will help me explain to the class why we arent suppose to speak korean. She will try and copy me when i said "sit down please". She will run to her seat just so I can say "thank you monica for sitting down" She is such a little teachers pet, but shes super cute.
I have actually gotten a couple messages from parents saying that their kids speak or sing english at home and they are happy that their kids are doing well. I even got a "thanks for being a good teacher" from one of the parents. Things have been going well so far I think.
I was so worried in the beginning about behaviour management. If i was going to handle the class or not. I was so strict in the first couple weeks and it was the best idea ever. We can now have fun in class, be silly but when I say stop they do and when i speak they listen. I even try to speak quietly most of the day so that they have to really listen to my voice. I have not yelled at my kids once and I want to keep that going. I love the fact that they seem to repect me.
Anyways, this blog is extremely long so I will end it with some things that I am proud of my kids for learning this month.
- Asking a friend or look in their book to find the answer before asking me.
- to button their own buttons
- finger spacing, captials and periods in sentences
-opening their own juice containers
-cleaning up, pushing in chairs
-how to use a ruler
-being nice to eachother, helping eachother, sharing
This is a video of my class showing me what their Sign Language names would be.
My legacy with them will hopefully be giving them some sort of independance. When I leave them, they will feel confident enough to do their buttons up on their own, to open their juice boxes, chip bags and any other container on their own. I like to teach them how to do things on their own. I think its so important to do at a young age. I have been teaching them so many things that is NOT in the curriculum, that i sometimes wonder how i get the actual work books done at all.
Some of the kids that I found super annoying in the last couple weeks are starting to be killer kids. Anna had a lot of attitude before, but now she is listening more, wanting to help others and speaks really good english. SHe even understands sarcasm which is hilarious.
Eugene is a little girl who is super duper shy and would cling to me every day. She crys super easy and you have to watch her a lot and make sure she does her work. THis past week she has been finishing her work, talking more, laughing and making funny faces. I love it when she says "Teacher, what is DIS?" she is super adoarable. She used to kiss my arm a lot, and pett it the entire lesson. I try to get her to stop but i hink i am going to just accept it that i have an arm petter beside me. apparently her mother says that she just "likes me a lot" thats why she pets me every day haha.
Andrew is one of my favs. He is unique and a free spirit! when he is finished his work he smiles and shows me. he says things like "im too good at at this" "This is too easy". but he is also soo sensitive. One time we were working on dislikes and likes and he thought i said i disliked him. he started to bawl and thought i hated him. I felt so bad!! I hugged him a tone of times and told him that he was a good boy and that I loved him. poor little dude. Later i noticed that he does this with a lot of teachers, if they done praise him enough or he misunderstands them. I now know he just wants a hug and to be told that someone loves him. A little sad but really cute.
I taught the class how to make cubes the other day. From then on andrew says "teacher I want to make a cube" he loves his cubes! hes just so proud of the things he accomplishes and I cant help but be proud. "I DID IT" he always yells. He also likes to dance for the class. in the middle of a lesson he will get up and dance. the kids think hes funny, i think hes hilarious so, yeah i let him dance for a while. haha hes the best! He is also so inquisitive. Wants to know "why" for EVERYTHING. and as annoying as it could be, its actually not. He is just genuinly intersted in everything. I find myself teaching so many different hings to the students just because they are intersted and want to know about it.
Some funny andrew quotes:
Me: "carry on"
Monica: "what is carry on, is it from Canada?"
Andrew: "no its from Brazil!!"
Me: "um... okaaay?"
Me: "What do you like to do on your birthday?"
Andrew: "Teacher, I like sand."
Monica is such a special little one. She needs to be reassured about everything. Whether it is if shes good, or if her name is going into the Onyx box. She will tell the class if they are being bad, shes will help me explain to the class why we arent suppose to speak korean. She will try and copy me when i said "sit down please". She will run to her seat just so I can say "thank you monica for sitting down" She is such a little teachers pet, but shes super cute.
I have actually gotten a couple messages from parents saying that their kids speak or sing english at home and they are happy that their kids are doing well. I even got a "thanks for being a good teacher" from one of the parents. Things have been going well so far I think.
I was so worried in the beginning about behaviour management. If i was going to handle the class or not. I was so strict in the first couple weeks and it was the best idea ever. We can now have fun in class, be silly but when I say stop they do and when i speak they listen. I even try to speak quietly most of the day so that they have to really listen to my voice. I have not yelled at my kids once and I want to keep that going. I love the fact that they seem to repect me.
Anyways, this blog is extremely long so I will end it with some things that I am proud of my kids for learning this month.
- Asking a friend or look in their book to find the answer before asking me.
- to button their own buttons
- finger spacing, captials and periods in sentences
-opening their own juice containers
-cleaning up, pushing in chairs
-how to use a ruler
-being nice to eachother, helping eachother, sharing
This is a video of my class showing me what their Sign Language names would be.
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