Empathy training

They (whoever they are) always say that you can't really understand a person until you've walked a mile in their shoes. Teaching in a foreign country is like walking cross country in a teacher's shoes. Not only are you thrust into teaching with no experience or background, but there's the little issue of the language barrier as well. Not to say that teaching abroad is more difficult than teaching back home. I am more like a guest lecturer every week, I only see each class once per week. I don't really have to grade or assign homework, so that is nice.
Also unless I start breaking Korean laws I'm not going to lose my job. Plus the pay for teaching in Korea is better than it would be back home. I guess this post is serving as my apology to teachers. Any teacher I ever annoyed, any class I ever acted out in, any teacher or potential teacher I ever belittled or envied for their easy job.

My Experience as a Teacher so Far: There are good classes and there are bad classes. It's weird being an FT because none of the classes are really mine. The behavior of the class is directly related to the home room teacher or co-teacher that I have with that class. The first year middle school students are exempt from that logic. They are awesome. Attentive, enthused and they love to participate. They are not quite "too cool for school" (I finally get this saying) yet like many of the 2nd and 3rd grade students. The bad 2nd and 3rd grade students just lack discipline. The good 2nd and 3rd grade classes are ruled with an iron fist whereas the bad classes have little to fear from their homeroom teachers. I'm glad that I'm not the primary teacher for that very reason. I'm not very good at being mean and I sometimes relate with the troublemakers in class so I do not make a good disciplinarian. All in all, there are good and bad days and when I remind myself that I've only been teaching for 3 months there is nowhere to go but up.