Here is the last school I worked at in South Korea. While I resided in Korea, I lived in the city of Busan (mainland S. Korea), Seogwipo (south-side, Jeju Island), & Jungmun, (20 minutes west of Seogwipo, Jeju Island). I worked in Jungmun for about eight months, then left for a new adventure in Japan.
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My teaching basket that I brought to each class. It contained everything I needed, minus the textbooks. Dry erase markers, pens, pencils, erasers (board & pencil erasers), translation dictionary & a remote control for the heater/air conditioner (A/C) where all packed in this basket. "Air-Con" is frequently used in Korea & Japan to refer to an A/C unit that cools as well as heats. Perhaps this term is used in other countries as well.
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My desk was on the left with the green Nalgene bottle I brought from Colorado. The teacher to my right was in the process of cleaning out her teaching basket.
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I carried this stamp with me from school to school. If you recall from an earlier post, I asked a student if she would make me a name stamp like she did for many of her friends. She kindly agreed & spent a lot of time doing it, so I ending up giving her some money for her time. She was very happy with my token of appreciation.
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The kindergarten class!
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They had some fun energy, but they took all of mine.
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A friendly game of English bingo.
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A peace sign given by Nana. This was the English name she chose.
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The boys set up for a pretty good pose.
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Some students pretending to work.
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Much better, the boys were hard at work on a writing assignment.
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This class worked fairly hard. An upside down "A" sign shown on the right. Once again, I think it basically means, "Not cool." Hmmm...
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Same class on a different day.
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| Peace, peace, peace! |
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| Check out the little guy in back trying to see what's going on in the big kids' room. |
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The guy on the right was the only boy in the class. I don't think he cared for that.
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This was a smaller class of about five students. I enjoyed the smaller classes.
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This too was a small class at first. I might add that this class had a fairly high level of English for their age.
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A junior high class. I could never keep track of who was cheating off of whom.
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These guys were great fun in class! When playing some English games, they were VERY competitive!
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| The most advanced class consisted of two junior high students. We could have full conversions, so I really enjoyed talking to them & hearing their opinions! |
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Two of the students from my adult class. All the adult students were great fun!
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Halloween time!
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Face painting was provided by some of the teachers. The owner, holding the camera, took many pictures of the students. She later sorted them & gave them to the students.
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He looked so innocent with his Dracula/devil/axeman/joker face costume.
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Witches were to be expected at the Halloween party.
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Everyone had fun at Halloween.
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The Batman movie was popular this year. However, the face painter told me she was making me into a panda with black spots on my face. After she colored the second eye, & then broke out the lipstick... I wondered what exactly she was making me out to be? Hah! The joker! She tricked me!
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As mentioned in a previous post, tangerines are given out by the boxes. All for free!
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Another eraser puzzle! These puzzles were fun for the students as well!
This was the last Korean private school I worked at.
Time to go...
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