YEAH!!!! Its HAPPENNING!!!
WATCH IT IN SOME MANNER IN LESS THAN A MONTH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0piFZXT8Zxo
There is poetry everywhere in Korea. Its kinda weird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0piFZXT8Zxo
Click to viewThere is poetry everywhere in Korea. Its kinda weird.
I gotta say, you really have an amazing ability to just say the right thing in personal observations. When I heard that he was teaching in Midland I was equally as confused and couldn't quite explain to Eric J. or Sylvie why I thought it was weirder that he was teaching/working in Midland, TX than on the other side of the globe. This winter I tried fairly hard to hang out with that guy and he was just plain avoidant. But he's been fairly helpful on advice on the whole Korea job thing so thats pretty nice.
The actual annoucement that a job was ready for me in Korea and that I had less than a week to get ready was crazy news for me. I really kept it on the downlow until I actually had a solid offer as I felt like the recruiter I was working with was jerking me around for a long time. I had actually thrown in all my documents to this agency back in Nov. 09 and didn't get a job offer until early Feburary and that became flakey and weird and so when I got a second offer that looked better I assumed it would have similar delays but apparently my current employer rushed my paperwork and had me out on 18 hour plane trip on March 23rd and giving Asian children nightmares the next day. And yeah that first day was terrible.
Nowadays I'm over my self-loathing of frightening small children (in the mornings I deal with first graders and then I go up a range of ages in the afternoon to two adult esl students at 5pm (I start work at 9:15ish so its still an 8 hour day and I usually have like around 2 hours of prep/free time)) and now I base most of my curriculum around Conan the Barbarian.
Really.
I'm having my adult E.S.L. students read sections outloud and write about it as their homework. (Justin that black metal fag snuck his Conan the Cimmerian omnibus collection of stories into my backpack at some point when we were unloading my luggage at the airport. Once again, THAT FAG.) I ended up reading the whole goddamned thing on the plane trip and the sweaty descriptions for lusty valor of Conan's appetite hasn't left me yet.
And my big goal is on Parent's Day to have my class of First Graders line up and we sing a nice song. After that I say "GOOD! THAT IS GOOD CHILDREN! BUT WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE?"
CHILDREN:(suddenly have faces turn grim in contrast to their bright Hello Kitty hair bows and rainbow school uniforms) "CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES! SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU! AND HEAR THE LAMENTATIONS OF THEIR WOMEN!"
I think it will be a big hit with the parents.
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