And Now the News,,,Continued

And so to continue..

I left off just after Lunar New Year's I believe. If not, well there wasn't much missed.

Anyways. So since Kate left us, we were kinda screwed over, now being short some teachers. So we hired in a new teacher. Maya. Awesome girl. Was born in Busan, but moved to the States to go to University and what not. Her English is excellent. Much better than half of the Korean staff here. But, she was capable on picking up the slack left in the wake of Kate leaving.

I ended up getting Kate's Calvert 1 class. Oh...I almost forgot to tell you. Harry, the kid that makes me contemplate killing little Korean children, has left! Oh and I no longer teach Bad Kids 1, 2, but have picked up on 3 again (this month). But don't rejoice yet. Kate's Calver 1 (CS1) class is the WORST class I've had so far. And considering what I've had...that's saying alot. Seriously, I've gone off on these kids more times than I can count. They constantly play with their cellphones in class...talk in Korean...and don't do their work. Dear God Above. Just two weeks ago I went off on Ted for playing with his cellphone. Well..okay, he was setting his alarm, but he shouldn't have had the damn thing out in the first place. I guess I was yelling so loud that two other teachers left their classes to see who/what I was going off on.

And you would think that...with me going off on them on a daily basis, the two (Ted and Paul) would learn. But oh no. Of course not. Just today, I was pretty sure I was twitching in anger at them...

Aside from them, I had an adult class, and lost it. They never really showed up. No skin off my back. I was getting paid to essentially talk to them.

Oh! And Amy, the girl that was put in my kindergarden class and subsequently made two of my students leave, never showed up for class. Ever. There were two weeks in a row that she was gone..and showed up for her afternoon classes. Hell, she wasn't even there for graduation.

Which reminds me,

We had graduation last week. (Yes, I've skipped a ton of stuff, but it's not really important)

I was sooo stressed over it. I shouldn't have been, but I was. I wanted to make sure that my kids knew their speeches and could sing all the songs. We had to impress the parents and what not. But luckily, I had the smart class. They knew their speeches and songs. I was so proud of them. And graduation itself went off without a problem. Sadly, I will no longer teaching Sue or Jason. Sue went to another Hagwan and Jason is supposedly in CS1..but I haven't seen him.

I am now teaching Ted and Paul....again...in CS2. I want to kill them. The pair of them...I don't know how Kate could ever like them. It's a battle to get them to write down their homework in 45 minutes. Dear god...I swear...

*deep breath*

Anyways, I also have a bunch of random classes on Mon, Wed, and Fri. I teach CS3 with Kevin and Anne, lost Ryan...but no real big there. Oh..speaking of loosing kids....when Jade left so did her brother Eric. Thank god.


OH!

So this week, we got new classes. I don't teach Calvert Kindgarden now...but ETS. I teach 9 kids...and got to name most of them!!! Yay! My first kids' names. I even got to name some in another class, cause Shirley never shows up. So in my kindergarden class I have a Ruby (came with the name), Crystal (gave it to her, but have to change it), Cai (came), Eric (came), Bill (came), Princess (she chose it), Martin (gave), Paul (came), and Issac (came). Then in the other class I gave two boys the name Jack and Kyle, the girl chose her name..Gina.

And that's it. You're all caught up.

On a side note...Ted and Paul stress me out so much that I've started to loose hair. Seriously, I'm almost tempted to see if I can switch classes with Mike. He teaches CS1...I can handle that. These two....uhg. If you hear in the news that an English teacher killed two of her students...well sorry folks, that will be me.

Outside of school, not alot has happened. Tried yoga...and stopped promptly. My back couldn't take it. Hmm..been hanging out with Shannon (the girl I met in Chicago, then again on the ski trip), and going to pub quiz regularily. Surprisingly, I get out more here than I did in college. And...I don't think that I've lost weight walking to work daily, but my legs have gotten skinnier. I think that once it gets just a tad bit warmer, I'll start walking back up the hill and that's when I'll start burning the fat off.

But that's all, I have to go teach now.

No more griping, and I promise to update more regularily.

Peace!