Friday, September 29, 2006

Hello everyone!

Sorry about the long blog drought again, but I have been really busy. The last week I have been writing my report cards from the phone teaching from hell the week before! I have gained another bunch of students, one of which doesn't know what the word 'dog' was when I played pictionary with the class! Brian gave me the heads up on the other students I gained, but that one he just said, "good luck, Dave".

Here are some pictures of last months field trip to a place where kids can learn about traditional games and stuff. It was a bit of a nightmare as the place just opened and there were a whole bunch of other schools there.

The whole class against me tug of war was fun until another class came over and joined in! I went back there today actually. But I will come on to that in a bit. Next months activity day is Halloween. I have heard this a pretty big one for the school. The whole place is decorated and we just play games and stuff for hours and scare the kids. Jake had a little smile on his face when I asked him if the kids get scared and cry, LOL!!

Chusok is coming up next week and its going to be a pretty exciting time. Mum is coming over to visit me and I should be pretty busy for the full week of holiday I have. It will be pretty good to see Mum again and to get out and about in Seoul a bit more.

So, Chusok is a big festival in Korea and the kids got all dressed up for it on Thursday, it was so cute. Hanbok is the name of the traditional clothes in the pictures below, there is also a picture of a lady in Hanbok. The kids were so cute, all of them were dressed up.
















As I was saying a little earlier, I went back to the Korean village thing today, but that's only because it was in the Munhak area, and I was going to the stadium there. Not for sports unfortunately but even better, there was a food festival there. It was pretty much all Korean food but it was a nice day in the sun. There was only one disappointment... The bread in the picture was not for sale it was all yesterdays bread from a bakery hagwon, a bakery school.

I think its time for a nap... whoever reads this send me an email, cos it would be nice to hear from you/

lots love

dx

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Blog drought

Well I must be the worst blogger in the world! I have been busy with the more mundane things the past few weeks, just saving a bit of money here and there, trying to eat out too much and just going to work. It’s not really that exciting, but I’m still having fun doing the regular stuff. Our little foreigner family seems to be getting along swimmingly for the mo.

Its phone teaching week, which means that my mood is a little down compared to normal. My list of names and numbers has increased and has risen to 70 students, which is depressing! And so just as I got into a good routine with the student I had, and it wasn’t taking up too much of my Thursday, I will definitely have to stay for a long while on Thursday :( On the other hand its pizza tonight, which is good as I am trying not to spend anything at all this week (until the weekend)!

Time to catch up with the news, laters.

dx

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

it is!

This week started off pretty well. I have three changed classes.
1. ‘The class of Death’ I like to call it. It was the class that I was hoping Brian would get to be quite honest, but I got it. It is made of two classes, one I had and one Brian had, with older students about 12 I guess, and with mixed levels of enthusiasm and English competency.
2. A class of 10, some really good students some not so good but most of them are good kids and classes of over about 5 kids generally go pretty quick.
3. The newest class is the most interesting, it is half a class I have inherited from Elaine (thanks mate!). Its not that bad really, but they are the youngest students I have. ‘Here’s your toothbrush. Brush your teeth’. I think there is going to be a lot of colouring in that class from now on!

Well we also have our new teachers, Anita Teacher (who is the new Korean teacher) and Emily Teacher (who is Elaine’s replacement).

They both seem pretty nice to be honest; I look forwards to working with both of them. It’s also nice to have that desk opposite me filled.

No other real news to tell, errrr... was really nice to chat with y’all the other night/morning. Hope you are all taking care. Good luck with the flat Ellie, I look forward to partying there next year!!!

I haven’t really done anything too exciting lately so I haven’t really got any new and exciting pictures :( sorry about that.

Take it easy chaps

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