Thursday, March 18, 2004
Gangneung-si, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Happy St. Patricks Day! (yeah, it was yesterday here in Korea, but for most of the people who would read this, it's today)
I was at the Warehouse last night. Ras played some good Newfoundland drinking songs which were good to hear in this country of loud non-stop techno music.
I'm exhausted this morning and stressed out because of my misbehaving children! Especially, my oldest class. I have students sleeping, throwing erasers and crayons...students that do nothing but yell all class long, tear up other peoples work, make paper airplanes with their assignments, roll their papers into swords and have fights, kids who just get up and walk around and start "chicken fighting" at the back (this is where they stand on one leg, hop around and smash into each other, it's more popular than you'd think....), kids who refuse to stop talking, kids who speak Korean all class long, yell out answers when I'm asking other students, call me dong-teacher (kind of translates to shit-teacher) if I don't give them playtime every day and all other imaginable manners of craziness....AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I've been told by other teachers here to start making them do push-ups and also to punish the rest of the class for the actions of one or two students....I am going to try this, cause it's getting way out of control....you know I'm spending half the class just yelling at one student and it's starting to adversely affect the rest of the class...and I can see it in their faces, they are just sitting there like what the hell is going on and one kid is being a nightmare, all class, every day...
Happy St. Patricks Day! (yeah, it was yesterday here in Korea, but for most of the people who would read this, it's today)
I was at the Warehouse last night. Ras played some good Newfoundland drinking songs which were good to hear in this country of loud non-stop techno music.
I'm exhausted this morning and stressed out because of my misbehaving children! Especially, my oldest class. I have students sleeping, throwing erasers and crayons...students that do nothing but yell all class long, tear up other peoples work, make paper airplanes with their assignments, roll their papers into swords and have fights, kids who just get up and walk around and start "chicken fighting" at the back (this is where they stand on one leg, hop around and smash into each other, it's more popular than you'd think....), kids who refuse to stop talking, kids who speak Korean all class long, yell out answers when I'm asking other students, call me dong-teacher (kind of translates to shit-teacher) if I don't give them playtime every day and all other imaginable manners of craziness....AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I've been told by other teachers here to start making them do push-ups and also to punish the rest of the class for the actions of one or two students....I am going to try this, cause it's getting way out of control....you know I'm spending half the class just yelling at one student and it's starting to adversely affect the rest of the class...and I can see it in their faces, they are just sitting there like what the hell is going on and one kid is being a nightmare, all class, every day...
Kiran Parghi Thursday, March 18, 2004