My kids!
Well, the first lessons with my students were always fun. I had them ask me questions, mostly they inquired about where I was from, how tall I am, my age, and whether or not I’m married. Although I did get some oddball questions like “Teacha’, why are you handsome?”, or even “Teacha’, how did you become so tall?” How am I supposed to answer that one? Haha. But when I told them my height in centimeters (190) they instantly became quiet and every single jaw dropped.
They cannot seem to comprehend the fact that I don’t understand Korean…it’s really quite puzzling to them. But fortunately they’re really good about only speaking English in class, so I don’t have to get onto them about that. Let’s see….the average class size is about 15-20, and their ages range from about 7-12. For the most part they are very well behaved, a few of my classes really surprise me actually by how well-disciplined they are. But of course, I do have a couple unruly kids in a few classes….although I’ve come up with a system of discipline and rewards that seems to be working well so far.
So yeah, I really do like my job. It allows me to be my goofy self and crack jokes….I had a few of my classes yesterday in stitches because I was teaching much vs. many when using uncountable nouns. Like they said, “the desert has many sand”. So I asked, “Really? So can you count the sand?” I walked around the room pretending to pick up little bits of sand as I counted, and acted out being frustrated by the task of tallying up all the sand in the desert….they thought it was the funniest thing in the world, haha!
Well, here’s a quick video of one of my classes I had today….kinda short cause I feel weird about recording them, although they seem to think it’s normal so I’ll post more later. Hope you’re all doing well!