Super Busy

One of my main goals for coming over here was to reduce my working hours and chill out a bit. The work is pretty stress free, but for someone who has never taught before it can get a bit whelming (I don't want to say overwhelming, but it is almost like that).?.?.?. I have 3 different grade levels to plan lessons for plus 2 teacher classes (which still haven't happened due to midterms) and now they've asked me to teach another elementary class twice a week. The last class is sweet because they will be paying me 400,000 won per month for the extra classes. This averages out to around $50 per class. On top of all of that I'm taking an online TEFL (teacher of English as a Foreign Language) course. This is actually a pretty helpful course and once I complete it I will get another pay increase.

At times it feels like a lot but at other times my mind starts to gel with the teaching thing. I'm treating this experience as a teaching internship with killer pay and benefits. The best part is that I have ultimate job security. If I left it would be devastating for them. It's really hard to replace FT's here, in fact there's a shortage of us. I keep climbing this steep learning curve and figuring a little more out about teaching day by day. Plus the kids love foreigners. Every morning when I show up to school I can't get halfway across the width of the soccer field before I hear a little "Tony Hi." from 50 yards away. It's like that all day. I can see it annoying some people but I love it.

Oh yeah, that kid that says hi in the morning is actually sweeping off the driveway. They put the rascals to work here. Every one of them has to clean stuff before and after school. It's like the rook work I had to do at the fraternity. Ok, I have an online TESL worksheet to finish.

Stay sweet,

Tony