the above image is from a student's pencil case. correct me if i'm wrong but i'm pretty sure it's from a kylie minogue song. they think us white folk are such a novelty. everyday at skool i have fifty kids run up and yell to me "hi!" or "hello!" and then they giggle and run off. the advanced ones know how to ask for your name but that's about it. they're mostly hilarious and the sweetest kids in the world.
our skool is building this english education centre for immersion students. parents have to pay for their students to attend it in the afternoon on tuesday and thursday. it doesn't open until october 8th though so we'll only be teaching english in the mornings until then. the class that i will be teaching is Culture so i'll be preparing lessons on everything from national symbols of the world to landmarks of the world to the geographies of europe, north america, south america, etc. it should be pretty cool because, even though i have a korean dude who is giving me ideas for lessons, i'll be developing most of the curriculum myself so i have loads of freedom to do what i want. also, i'll have this insane classroom with a mock bedroom, kitchen and a couple other random rooms so i can use them for demonstrations while teaching. it should definitely be something.
it's also weird because our skool is not the newest and, therefore, nicest and most up to date but they have room to build this english language centre so they've chosen kwanghee.
there are seven of us native english teachers there. more than any other skool probably in all of the seoul metropolitan office of education. we all get along pretty well which makes for a decent working environment because we have been spending a lot of time together in the first week.
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