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“What will you do for work when you return home from Korea? Oh, you don’t have a job yet? Yeah…. you’ll be back. No, seriously; everyone who says that ends up coming back. This is my third year, and I can’t imagine going home right now.”
I’ve mentioned this acronym a few times, but this time it’s relevant to Gwangju. KOTESOL is holding a conference in the City of Light this Saturday, March 12 at 12:30 p.m. Where, oh where? Chosun University (본관 Bon-gwan), North Wing (북쪽 2F). Admission? Free! Do they serve Hite or soju at these events? Anyone? We […]
By now you probably already know what the acronym stands for, but since trying to increase the search rankings of this website, I’m going to spell it out anyways: Teaching English as a Foreign Language. TEFL’ers are those certified and Internationally recognized as being qualified to teach students whose primary language is not English. Many […]
A 5th grader in one of the afternoon classes was caught drawing a caricature of Jason Teacher. With less than three weeks until departure from a year long adventure teaching English in South Korea, Jason Teacher could barely contain his emoticons. He snatched the picture from her unsuspecting fingers, and after examining it carefully, was […]
It’s been one of those months you just want to end, which is too bad because of all the wonderful sunshine. We’ve been preparing since the end of May for two days of Kindergarten open days which are happening right now. This is a time for the parents to see where their money has been […]
Over the weekend, we went to the Boseong Green Tea festival held in the neighboring town of — you guessed it — Boseong.
Finally, a field trip to some place other than the sixth floor of the school. This past Friday we took the Kindergarten students to the Gwangju World Photonics Expo, and apparently so did every other Kindergarten in the Jeolla province. See photos from the photonics expo on my first trip as an earlier post. Field […]
Remember back in grade school when you got those random days off during the week for so called “teacher seminars”? Ever wonder what that actually meant for the Teacher? Not me. I was jumping for joy at the thought of Mega Man 2 and beanbag chairs. But for the first time this past Thursday, I […]
Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but it has been a long month. Sickness, scheduling conflicts, shitty weather, students that just don’t know when to shut the eff up…. it all added up to one miserable March. It was probably the hardest month for us since coming here in September. A lot of times […]
Moving on to bigger and better things; Elementary School. Thank God they are only young once.