가르치는것 = "that teaching thing"

Hey everyone, remember what I'm here for? I guess it's easy to forget about, reading my latest few blog posts, but teaching is really taking over my life right now. I spend every weekday from 8 to 4:30 at the school. At first, I was sort of planning lessons at home, but now I think I'm going to do the bulk work of that in my free time at school. So far, I've done a lesson on the rules of the classroom, a self-introduction lesson, New York City trivia and game (2 weeks), and tomorrow starts my lesson on movie genres (conveniently "borrowed" from a previous ETA). I'm hoping to continue with a lesson on American schools, one on a little history for Columbus Day, Halloween and Thanksgiving lessons, and maybe Christmas (writing letters to Santa might be fun)...and we'll see what else I can fit in between. I'd like to do one on the presidential election, but it might be hard to fit in BEFORE the actual election happens and they get bias from that. Anyway here are some teaching pictures.

This is my classroom! The "English Lounge." Pretty sweet, right?

The English Lounge, full of students. This class used to be my nightmare class, on Fridays, but now they're one of my favorites. Their English might not be as good, but they like me more now than they did first lesson. Note that the ones who notice I'm taking a picture hide their faces...so Korea.

This is a cute note the lounge cleaners left me- in case you didn't know, Korean students are required to clean the school. It's part of student life. Some students are in charge of cleaning my classroom, and they were worried about air circulation apparently.

Students singing/rapping/beatboxing in my class. If they're late, they have to sing. Many were late this day. But they were hilarious, so they made up for it..

So there's a bit of a teaching update. I think things are going fairly well and I'm having a good time, even if I feel vastly underqualified to be doing what I'm doing. Though I have to say, whether or not you have a degree and despite how much experience you may have, teaching is tough. Bottom line. And it always throws new curveballs because students are all different. You can plan all you want but it won't go the same way with every class. No way. So in some ways, I think I'm just as prepared as anyone ever is to teach English to these girls.