This Blog is dedicated to telling people about what I am doing in South Korea with my teaching and about my experiences with being here. It is also to tell people back home in Canada what God is doing through me while I'm here.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

One Very Busy Week

I don't think I have been so busy in one week than I have for this week. In summary, it all starts with test day on Tuesday, followed by a Korean holiday (Korean independance day), then new students start coming on Thursday along with the start of speaking tests for the rest of the students, and Friday marks the start of 2 new classes.
Let me explain a little for you. We usually have test day near the end of the month, so that isn't so unusual. All the students have this day as a day to test the material that they have been learning in the past month or so. The day off was a nice little break in the week, but gave me really nothing to do for the day.
Thursday was the biggest day because of so many students starting. There were 7 new students who started today, Thursday. We had 2 others start on Tuesday. Another note on the new students coming is that if they don't have an English name it's my job to help them choose a name. Choosing an English name helps make my job easier because Korean names are so difficult to pronounce and they are usually 2 names long. So, today I gave out the names Grace, Anna, Jerry, Nick, and Chris. On Tuesday I gave out the name Rachel and Jenna. It's actually really interesting to see what kinds of names the students choose. The only problem is when they want to choose a name that is the wrong gender for them or it's not even an English name.
Speaking tests are done by me only and it pretty much takes half if not the whole class to do because I need to ask each student in the class at least 5 questions and hear their answers. Then I have to rate each answer according to their ability to speak from 'excellent', 'very good', 'good', 'needs practice', and 'doesn't know'. I have to do this with each class, so this will continue into next week.
Last is tomorrow, Friday, which is the start of the 2 new classes the new lowest level and a kindergarten. The new low level class, F class, is starting with 4 students, 2 of the new students and 1 student who has been here for 2 weeks from the already low class and 1 more new student. These are students who cannot read or speak very well. Then there is the kindergarten class, K class, which is starting with 5 new students, one being the director's son. This class actually scares me because they are so young and they know no English at all. I scared that they are going to be scared of me and that they are not going to be able to understand me or I them. I will see them 2 times a week so it should be interesting. I will try and get some pictures of them soon so you can see how cute they are; as most Korean children are.
So with sorting out which classes the new students are supposed to go into, getting the extra text books needed for the new students, speaking tests, and anthing else that needs to be done this sums up this week; pretty busy.

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