i love thursday and friday because it means it's almost saturday and sunday!! today i will teach only three classes and they all go by pretty fast because i have good kids. yesterday, i had my kindergarten age again and they couldn't stop wiggling, standing, and talking. i bribed them with candy and that got them back to work for awhile. the class is 80 minutes long and it's hard to keep little guys entertained that long. although there's less of a language barrier in the states, i have a new respect for elementary school teachers. i imagine it's just as hard as teaching mouthy kids in middle school or high school. even though my kids have a hard time sitting quietly (it's not even that much, my 2nd graders are very well behaved) i really enjoy them and i hope next semester when we switch classes i can stay at the level i'm at. it's fun to ask them what they're doing for their weekend or asking them on monday what they did. they never do anything fun. they go to violin and piano lessons (which i enjoyed doing, but on the weekend?!) and one girl told me she went to the library. but some of the boys say video games.
i've started to cook here! usually i make some buckwheat noodles with stirfry veggies in sesame oil (omega-6 fatty acid!). i put carrots, cucumbers, mushrooms, and green peppers in with a little red chili paste that koreans put on eeeverything. i also add one egg and tofu for more protein. hopefully i'll learn more variety soon before i get sick of this. it's hard going to the grocery store and not always knowing if what you have is for sure what you went in to get.
i'm starting to recognize kpop everywhere i go!! some of it actually isn't that bad, but i would much rather be listening to music on the radio from the states. they are still really into boy bands and one of the teachers told them that boy bands were popular 10 years ago in america. i guess they get kind of offended when you tell them that because they don't believe that anything can be better than their kpop. here's a link of a really popular song right now. kpop and a boy band: this is a train wreck.
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As you have already discovered, 80 minutes is waaay too long for little ones. I'm sure you're learning to break it into many, many small chunks. Bribing with candy, eh? And when their parents complain about their dentist bill? ;)
ReplyDeleteCreative cooking--good work! The tomatoes are really coming in now, so I made a red sauce to put over ravioli tonight.
kpop! Thanks for the culture lesson. It seems very 80's to me. Can you share American music with them, or are they not interested? You should be able to get US music streamed on the internet if no where else. Who knows? You might get used to kpop and start to like it! :)