Well, it's been a while since we wrote a post, and there's a good reason for that: our first week of work. It was busy and tiring learning the ins and outs of our new jobs and getting used to our new home and our new workplace and coworkers. Once we get used to everything, I think we'll really like it here. Geoje is absolutely gorgeous (see Facebook for some pictures from our first weekend here), and we already like our boss a lot and we're starting to feel more comfortable at work. We have to be at work from 1-9 Monday to Friday, so we've been running in the mornings and then relaxing at our apartment for a couple hours before work. Work goes really fast, and Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are especially crazy. We both have classes from 2:20 until just after 7 on those days, while Tuesdays and Thursdays we each only have 2 classes and are done teaching by 4:30. Those are our grading/planning days.
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| Sometimes the lessons portray gender roles that are a bit too traditional for my taste :( |
Planning isn't too hard, the curriculum lays out exactly what we need to cover for each class. Classroom management, on the other hand, is very difficult. The kids are young (7-9) and don't necessarily understand the rules that we lay down in English for them, that or they can pretend they don't understand. They also respect the foreign teachers significantly less than they do the Korean teachers, which makes it very difficult to control them. It was also a full moon on Friday, and Steven was convinced that was the reason that the kids were extra crazy that day. I'm not so sure.....
Thanksgiving was also this week, which brought a couple small bouts of homesickness. A beautiful run, talking to family, and some delicious Korean pizza got us through that though!
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