Holy Criminy!! I have not been good at upkeeping a blog for my time in Korea!! It's been wwwwaaaayyyyyyy too long! So.....mianhe!!
Let's see what has happened since last time - first semester finished, summer camp was sort of a success (I found out the school had scrabble!!), went home for my summer vacay, got an extra week of summer hols because it was too hot to make the kids come back, so went to Jeju with my friend Joelle, Expo finished with a bang (I got to see MBLAQ!!!! Sssqqquueeeeee!!!), said goodbye to an amazing friend (miss you still Shaz), second semester started, timetable change, less classes, but I teach all 3 grades at my middle school now, finding out my iron was uber low, getting iron supplements here, getting sick from the iron supplements here, getting mom to send me the iron supplements I had been taking, and now getting my iron up. Seoul for Chuseok, which included a very fun night of Salsa dancing on sat and also finding an amazing nail salon to get gel nails done at! Phew!!! My co-teacher asking me if I wanted to re-sign with the school, me telling her no, me getting into contact with a recruiter from Korvia who will help me look for a job closer to Seoul (methinks Suwon, yes?). Getting an amazing recommendation letter from my co, having barrels of laughs with my kidlets, and them making it harder for me to leave in Feb. Holy crow! Tons of stuff.
I also made up a really fun game for my students, and they absolutely love it! It's called "It is said that...", and it's based on a lesson where part of their target speech was saying "It is said that..." and also "I can believe that" and "I can't believe that". So my game revolves around my kids guessing whether the animal facts I tell them are true or false. I say to them, "It is said that...." with an animal fact, and students who think it's true must move to one side of the room, while the students who think it's false must move to the other side. Now students who think it's true must say "I can believe that!", while students who think it's false must say "I can't believe that!". Whoever is right stays standing and those who were wrong sit down. The last student standing gets a candy. It's a fun way for students to practice the target speech, don'tcha think?! They kept asking me for another round, another round, super funny.
Great game idea. I am stealing it :)
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