So, you have utterly no idea who I am, but I followed veni_vidi_vids link to your BSG rec and was in for a pleasant surprise. Because O HAI THAR FELLOW TEACHER-IN-KOREA.
I'm sorry to hear about the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day, and yeah, my pipes froze last night, too. It's been a nice change from the swimming pool my bathroom turns into every time I take a shower because the drain won't work. Brett, the other American teacher at my school, hasn't had water in days - he's usually over at my apartment every morning, shaving into my sink. And ohgod, the permanent marker thing is why I refuse to let any of my little monsters touch anything but pencils and dry-erase markers. Because my first week, they drew all over the tables in permanent marker and my director was not a happy camper.
So, thanks for the rec, and I hope today's looking better than yesterday did.
Nice to know it's not just happening to us, and at least we aren't in a situation as bad as poor Brett! We have the swimming pool bathroom problem too - I think it's because they basically have open drains here so they get clogged with hair and all sorts. We have to dump bleach down the drain like all the damn time to stop the whole place from flooding. :/
Today was better and thanks for the good thoughts, but Tuesday (the day after this day) was pretty awful too. I got told that, the class of first graders I have to entertain for forty minutes with one page, which has, if I'm lucky, 6 lines of dialogue, shouldn't draw as an activity. I'm already not allowed to play games with them. I have no fucking clue what I'm supposed to do with them now. *sigh* /whinging.
The permanent marker thing was actually largely frustrating because it wasn't even my error! Some OTHER teacher left a permanent marker in the room which, to be fair, for some reason looked just like a dry-erase marker. So this kid who I cannot break
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Luckily, Brett's water is back on, and he can go back to shaving in his own bathroom. :P I think you're right about the drains getting clogged - I'll have to pick up some bleach assuming I ever get to E-mart or Dong-A this week (I've been so beyond tired I've just been crashing after teaching
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Me and my husband are in Incheon, near Seoul. It's our first year doing this too. We've been here for five and a half months, so nearly halfway, assuming we make it that far since I think the economy and a new hagwon that just opened and stole half our students might tank this sucker. *worries*
I am allowed to draw and play games with other classes. Why not this one, I have no idea. I think it's because I have a problem kid in the class who, when he loses, sometimes hits people or screams or, whatever, though I have no idea where this drawing edict came down from. They photocopy work sheets because they can't be arsed to make them proper books, and suddenly it's my job to make sure they don't draw on the backs in the five minutes at the end of class when all we're doing is playing (now apparently illegal) hangman? Like you say, these kids are six and seven years old. *flails
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My school has been open for like a gabillion years (at least six), and it's part of one of the biggest english language school franchises in south korea apparently (though you wouldn't know it from the unprofessional way it's run: I think franchise is the operative word here) so it should have been pretty stable. :/ Which is why I'm kind of worried that they're in trouble
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I'm sorry to hear about the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day, and yeah, my pipes froze last night, too. It's been a nice change from the swimming pool my bathroom turns into every time I take a shower because the drain won't work. Brett, the other American teacher at my school, hasn't had water in days - he's usually over at my apartment every morning, shaving into my sink. And ohgod, the permanent marker thing is why I refuse to let any of my little monsters touch anything but pencils and dry-erase markers. Because my first week, they drew all over the tables in permanent marker and my director was not a happy camper.
So, thanks for the rec, and I hope today's looking better than yesterday did.
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Nice to know it's not just happening to us, and at least we aren't in a situation as bad as poor Brett! We have the swimming pool bathroom problem too - I think it's because they basically have open drains here so they get clogged with hair and all sorts. We have to dump bleach down the drain like all the damn time to stop the whole place from flooding. :/
Today was better and thanks for the good thoughts, but Tuesday (the day after this day) was pretty awful too. I got told that, the class of first graders I have to entertain for forty minutes with one page, which has, if I'm lucky, 6 lines of dialogue, shouldn't draw as an activity. I'm already not allowed to play games with them. I have no fucking clue what I'm supposed to do with them now. *sigh* /whinging.
The permanent marker thing was actually largely frustrating because it wasn't even my error! Some OTHER teacher left a permanent marker in the room which, to be fair, for some reason looked just like a dry-erase marker. So this kid who I cannot break ( ... )
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Me and my husband are in Incheon, near Seoul. It's our first year doing this too. We've been here for five and a half months, so nearly halfway, assuming we make it that far since I think the economy and a new hagwon that just opened and stole half our students might tank this sucker. *worries*
I am allowed to draw and play games with other classes. Why not this one, I have no idea. I think it's because I have a problem kid in the class who, when he loses, sometimes hits people or screams or, whatever, though I have no idea where this drawing edict came down from. They photocopy work sheets because they can't be arsed to make them proper books, and suddenly it's my job to make sure they don't draw on the backs in the five minutes at the end of class when all we're doing is playing (now apparently illegal) hangman? Like you say, these kids are six and seven years old. *flails ( ... )
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