I walking into my 2nd/3rd/4th grade class to cheerful chaos. Chaos is normal for these kids, but today, it is slightly more chaotic than usual ( Read more... )

The Korean class offered by the Samcheok Office of Education has done wonders for my Korean, mostly in giving me confidence in my accent and ability to construct full grammatical sentences. This has been a mostly uphill struggle, however, as my Korean teacher doesn't appear to like me very much ( Read more... )

6th Grade Sol again this morning ( Read more... )

Today could have gone horribly ( Read more... )

To practice the adjectives (형용사) today, everyone wrote down their names on a piece of paper, and everyone else in the class wrote a sentence about her on that paper. None of them were mean. The outcasts got "Jaehui is very quiet" "Jaehui is small" "Jaehui is sleepy". The popular girls got "Jimin is pretty" "Jimin is beautiful" "Jimin is skinny ( Read more... )

A tall middle-school aged boy hunches over the handlebars of his bicycle. He is wearing a navy blue hoodie with large white letters partially embraced by ROYGBIV proclaiming "I will chase the rainbow!"