4D CINEMA

A bunch of guys from church wanted to watch the new Superman movie last week so I decided to go with them.

We then decided that we would watch the movie in 4D! Which is basically a 3d cinematic experience with the added effect of water that sprays in your face, wind that blows your back and chairs that move like a roller coaster ride.

I wasn't really sure what to expect, but I was quite surprised at just how much the chairs moved, I think I got a bit of motion sickness. Also, during the fight scenes my chair would poke me in the back or swipe at my ankles. 

It was a fun experience but i'm not sure I'll be going again, the action in the movie itself is enough for me I think.

DISCIPLINE

My co-teachers are great, while I'm happily teaching they keep a close eye out for any misbehaving students. The scary part is that they use solid wooden sticks when dishing out punishments. In most cases the students are given a choice of either doing cleaning or lines or a whack from the stick. About just over half of them seem to prefer stick.
It's also not uncommon to see students lining the halls or back of the class on the floor in press-up position.
I certainly don't remember have anything like that kind of punishment at my school growing up.

SPEAKING EXAMS

I've been doing speaking Exams all last week. That means interviewing all 700 of my students individually!
It was quite fun, those who had prepared did well but there were a lot of students who just tried to wing it... unsuccessfully I might add. Korea is well know for having a high success rate in education, which is great, but actually kids are drilled for acing exams. They do exams every few weeks which are often multiple choice and especially with english they learn how to spot the questions and work out the grammar without, in some cases, actually understanding the meaning or being able to use that language in practice.
So actually their test scores don't seem to reflect their ability to communicate with the language very well.

CHAE-YI'S 1st BIRTHDAY

Chae-Yi, Our nice, just turned 1 year old (Western Age). She was born only a couple of weeks after I arrived here in Korea. So it reminded me that i haven't been in England for over a year already.
Anyway she's really cute, she's not quite walking or talking yet but she's almost doing both (making lots of noises and coasting along using tables and book cases).
We bought her a British Bunny as a present.

CHEEKY GIFT

After teaching one of my lessons a student comes up and hands me a picture that he drew of me during the lesson. It was very nice of him... but I'm going to have to keep an eye on him from now on.

No drawing during Mr Roberts Class

GYEONG-JU

Korea has a national holiday for Buddah's birthday so we took the opportunity to go to Gyeong-ju and get outside of busan for a day. We started pretty late because we were cleaning the house and making a picnic but anyway it turned out that we weren't the only ones leaving Busan for the day. What should have been a 2 hour journey max took us almost 5 hours.

Gyeong-ju was lovely though, we hired a tandem bike and just rode around the city / parks before heading home again... we didn't get back until 11pm, but it was definitely worth it.

PARENTS DAY

On the 5th of May each year Korea celebrates childrens day, provided it's not a weekend this means that kids get the day off school and usually go out somewhere nice and get presents.
Shortly after this on the 8th of May they celebrate Parents day.

We enjoyed celebrating parents day last month by going out for a meal with Eunmi's family. We had a Vietnamese hot pot which was delicious.