TEACHING TREATS

One of best perks of being a teacher in Korea is that happy parents will frequently send in treats to say thank you for their sons good grades or for completing their exams.

I forget to take pictures of them all, but here are a few examples:

EVIDENCE

I was asked by my teacher to take some evidence of students who had been just sweeping rubbish under their lockers, fair play.

I also managed to make it into the school exhibition, teaching kids using iPads (this lesson was entirely staged by the way, i've never taught using iPads)

SCHOOL FESTIVAL

We had a school festival last friday, and I was asked last minute to perform a song!

So I decided to do a Korean song, which was not a good idea in the sense that I did a terrible job of singing it - but on the other hand it was a brilliant idea because it meant the kids loved it and just sang it for me haha.

It's an embarrassing bad performance but here is the video for your enjoyment:

SCHOOL FESTIVAL

WRITE IT LIKE YOU HEAR IT

One of my students wrote this on his test when asked to describe a picture. Brilliant.

THE FOLKS!

And so it begins; the coming together of two very distant and different families. My parents came all the way from england and joined us here in Busan for 5 days!

We showed them a few sites, ate lots of food and met together with the whole family. 

I found myself in the middle translating most of the time often two conversations at once! haha

It was really important time especially for Eun-mi, and for the whole family too, i'm sure. 

Thanks Mum & Dad

ALIEN

Hurray! I finally received my Alien Registration Card! So now I am an official expatriate in South Korea.

GUESS WHO

I've really enjoyed teaching the classic game 'guess who' to my students. It's a great way to get them speaking english together as well as having fun.
It took a long time to make, laminating, cutting out name cards, getting pens and board wipers for all the students, but it all paid of in the end.