Here I am in the absolute middle of Week 4. Can you believe its almost been a month??? Tomorrow will be a whole month Korea side (does that make sense the way "State side" does?) Anyway, I have A LOT to report on, so without further ado.
So last weekend I went on a mini-trip with some other ETA's to, basically, a rented house just for us. It was on the side of a small burbling stream (yes I used the word burbling and it was awesome). I helped cook the samgyupsal so I didn't get to play by the stream as much as some of the others, but I checked it out. Conclusion: it is pretty much the same as an American stream. However, the view of the mountains is TOTALLY different. I maintain, as I have for a year now, that you cannot see a view like that anywhere in the States. We stayed overnight and came back in the morning.
In my last post I mentioned teaching practice through Camp Fulbright and over the weekend we were required to be part of the activities for the students. So on Sunday I got up bright and early and helped draw a human sized sudoku puzzle on the floor of a classroom (with my own personal duct tape) and then manned a scavenger hunt station in which the students had to hold words and rearrange them to make a sentence. The scavenger hunt activity was themed as CIA spy school and so for my station I wore my sunglasses and pretended to be a relatively lax training sergeant. It was good fun, but by the end the kids were just totally worn out. Later in the afternoon, the students did a very strange talent show, in which the teams were given a movie and they had to perform a skit. Some of the movies were really hard and so even though I hadn't signed up to help run the event I helped one of the teams--their move was Inception, go figure, right?
Monday and Tuesday were pretty relaxed. I took my Korean Language quiz Monday and I passed!! Yay! So my average is still passing. Although, admittedly it is a little bit close to the border for comfort. Apparently, last week our Korean teachers met with the orientation staff to discuss us and essentially evaluate our participation and progress in our class. At lunch we were comparing marks and it turns out I got full marks in all categories and they said that they saw me improving a lot and appreciated my class participation :) !!! I was soo happy!! In my class I have felt really far behind a lot and for them to say such positive things, I was so incredibly happy.
Today I had my second experience teaching and it went really well. I taught on prepositions and it was kind of funny. My first lesson was a little easy for my class and today the lesson was a little too hard. So I think it was a little hard because maybe my directions weren't very clear, so that is something for me to work on. On Friday I'm teaching about motivation to an advanced class. I'm looking forward to it but I'm a little nervous too because the instructor told me and my partner today that we should model what we want them to do by giving our own motivational speech. Oh man.
Friday is also going to be a big day because we will get our school placements! So by the time I go to bed on Friday I will know where I'll be spending the next year! ^_^ Check y'all next week!
So last weekend I went on a mini-trip with some other ETA's to, basically, a rented house just for us. It was on the side of a small burbling stream (yes I used the word burbling and it was awesome). I helped cook the samgyupsal so I didn't get to play by the stream as much as some of the others, but I checked it out. Conclusion: it is pretty much the same as an American stream. However, the view of the mountains is TOTALLY different. I maintain, as I have for a year now, that you cannot see a view like that anywhere in the States. We stayed overnight and came back in the morning. In my last post I mentioned teaching practice through Camp Fulbright and over the weekend we were required to be part of the activities for the students. So on Sunday I got up bright and early and helped draw a human sized sudoku puzzle on the floor of a classroom (with my own personal duct tape) and then manned a scavenger hunt station in which the students had to hold words and rearrange them to make a sentence. The scavenger hunt activity was themed as CIA spy school and so for my station I wore my sunglasses and pretended to be a relatively lax training sergeant. It was good fun, but by the end the kids were just totally worn out. Later in the afternoon, the students did a very strange talent show, in which the teams were given a movie and they had to perform a skit. Some of the movies were really hard and so even though I hadn't signed up to help run the event I helped one of the teams--their move was Inception, go figure, right?
Monday and Tuesday were pretty relaxed. I took my Korean Language quiz Monday and I passed!! Yay! So my average is still passing. Although, admittedly it is a little bit close to the border for comfort. Apparently, last week our Korean teachers met with the orientation staff to discuss us and essentially evaluate our participation and progress in our class. At lunch we were comparing marks and it turns out I got full marks in all categories and they said that they saw me improving a lot and appreciated my class participation :) !!! I was soo happy!! In my class I have felt really far behind a lot and for them to say such positive things, I was so incredibly happy.
Today I had my second experience teaching and it went really well. I taught on prepositions and it was kind of funny. My first lesson was a little easy for my class and today the lesson was a little too hard. So I think it was a little hard because maybe my directions weren't very clear, so that is something for me to work on. On Friday I'm teaching about motivation to an advanced class. I'm looking forward to it but I'm a little nervous too because the instructor told me and my partner today that we should model what we want them to do by giving our own motivational speech. Oh man.
Friday is also going to be a big day because we will get our school placements! So by the time I go to bed on Friday I will know where I'll be spending the next year! ^_^ Check y'all next week!
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