Death by Summer Camp
So I finally finished A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin. I have been enamored with the Song of Fire and Ice series, but this one felt more like a chore AND took me 7 months to finish it. The previous ones where all finished within a week despite being around 1000 pages. The book centered around characters that I really just didn't about and Characters that had my attention only really had it because they were plotting against, searching for, working for, or trying to rescue some other character in the series that I did actually care about. All I could keep thinking was: What about Jon Snow!!!!
I finally hammered through the book because I am currently an a week long English Camp. Actually this is the beginning of will become three weeks of English camp. Three five day weeks of waking up at 6am in the morning only to return to our motel room at 9pm at night.
I must consider myself lucky because the geniuses that put together this Korean style train wreck, must think I am a great teacher. So great that I am the only schmuck who was "asked" to work at all three weeks.
I have worked my shared of camps through Boy Scouts and I can tell you the camper sustaining songs, skits, and activities are absent entirely. There are certain ways to manage large groups of young people over the period of a week or two that work and sticking in an unairconditioned auditorium to participate in an ill-conceived "talent show" that they have had no time to prepare for is NOT one of them.
despite the tone of this post I am trying desperately to keep a positive attitude as losing one would only serve to dishearten myself but also the students, who are largely of a higher level than my normal classes. That would begin a downward spiral that would surely result in me running off crazed and screaming into the woods of Gyeongsan.
We are at the prestigious Gyeongsan Science High School. I am getting quite a bit of amusement from the trappings of the camp experience such as the requisite terrible camp food, the teamwork, or the generally silliness that seems so out of place in almost all other areas of life. It reminds me a bit of my Owassippe days in some ways.
A great relief are the other staffers who have overwhelmingly made the whole much easier to bear. It is a rare opportunity to swap stories and strategies and just watch another teacher get in front of a class. The humor of the other teachers is much appreciated.
I must survive this to make it to EPIK Adventure 08!
I finally hammered through the book because I am currently an a week long English Camp. Actually this is the beginning of will become three weeks of English camp. Three five day weeks of waking up at 6am in the morning only to return to our motel room at 9pm at night.
I must consider myself lucky because the geniuses that put together this Korean style train wreck, must think I am a great teacher. So great that I am the only schmuck who was "asked" to work at all three weeks.
I have worked my shared of camps through Boy Scouts and I can tell you the camper sustaining songs, skits, and activities are absent entirely. There are certain ways to manage large groups of young people over the period of a week or two that work and sticking in an unairconditioned auditorium to participate in an ill-conceived "talent show" that they have had no time to prepare for is NOT one of them.
despite the tone of this post I am trying desperately to keep a positive attitude as losing one would only serve to dishearten myself but also the students, who are largely of a higher level than my normal classes. That would begin a downward spiral that would surely result in me running off crazed and screaming into the woods of Gyeongsan.
We are at the prestigious Gyeongsan Science High School. I am getting quite a bit of amusement from the trappings of the camp experience such as the requisite terrible camp food, the teamwork, or the generally silliness that seems so out of place in almost all other areas of life. It reminds me a bit of my Owassippe days in some ways.
A great relief are the other staffers who have overwhelmingly made the whole much easier to bear. It is a rare opportunity to swap stories and strategies and just watch another teacher get in front of a class. The humor of the other teachers is much appreciated.
I must survive this to make it to EPIK Adventure 08!