Even though this post covers four days, it will be pretty short.
Days 5 and 6 were both lecture days with Korean classes after dinner. Bam, two days down.
Day 7 was interesting, we did lesson demonstrations. Basically earlier in the week we split into small groups to plan a lesson. We had 15 minutes to teach our fellow teachers, or students, a lesson on fast forward. My group's topic was "I'd like a cheeseburger." We set the lesson in a restaurant and did some role-playing and games. Overall it went pretty well but we did struggle a bit to fill the time. The problem is the games and such go extremely fast with native speakers, but they will take a lot more time with Korean students. But we got through and no one got deported.
After demonstrations we had lunch, then spent some time going over everyone's lessons with the evaluator. Then we finally found out where we were teaching. I am at Maebong Middle School in Daeduckgu. I teach 22 classes a week, 11 1st graders and 11 2nd graders. In Korea you start over when you go to a new school. So in western thinking I teach 11 classes each of 7th and 9th graders.
We ended day 7 with a farewell feast, which was great. There was a talent show that was pretty entertaining, and a Lion Dance, which was really cool. Then it was back to the dorms to pack, followed by a quick drink down at the bar to say goodbye to everyone. It's cool how we all became such good friends in such a short time.
The morning of day 8 saw us taking our luggage to the buses and taking off for our respective cities. Nothing too exciting happened until we got to the MOE (Metropolitan Office of Education), but that deserves its own post.
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