Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Volleyball
I am the assistant coach for the HS boys volleball team, sure I haven't played volleyball in years so I am in charge of getting these guys in shape. Oh what fun it is to force other people to do hard excercise, MUAHAHAHHA. And I get to yell all I want. We had 19 guys show up and none of them have played volleyball before but we have some good players. We will only select 12 for games but allow everyone to come out to practice, if people start slipping in their grades or in practice then they get bumped from the starting lineup and we move someone into their spot, this should keep the guys working hard in school and on the court.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
My First Period Class
Something one of my students wrote me, really makes your day.
Picture of my first period class. The guy in the front with the black shirt is "sleepy," he falls asleep in every class all the time.
School in Session!
School has finally started.
I just wanted to apologize to everyone that has sent me an email recently and has not gotten a reply. Things have been really busy with getting lesson plans done and starting school so I have not been on top of my emailing.
Julie - the dress picture is so cute. I am glad you like it!
DJ - My skype name is Heebs6 but I am never on it.
Mom, Dad - I figured out how to present the material after reading some teaching websites, thanks for the encouragement and support.
Ann - ESL is really hard, I have a lot more respect for what you do and how hard you work. I put in 14.5 hours yesterday!
Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy - Doing my best to take care of Laura. She's doing great as a teacher! Was great to talk to you both and Alex and Roxie.
First day of school was rough. I had no idea what I was doing my first period class so they were out of it when I started to lecture because we had so much extra time after I went through the syllabus. Have one trouble kid, he sleeps through class. I made him stand the whole class period and then do pushups during the study time. He promised not to fall asleep in class tomorrow. Claims he has insomnia and cant sleep at night, I want to feel sorry for him but my IRON FIST must previal! I am going to find out if he really does have a sleeping problem and figure out how to get him to learn the material and not die from exhaustion.
I have a free period after the first class so thats 2.5 hours for planning and lunch. My third period class are one "level" higher in English ability and them seem like a good bunch, a couple sleepers though that I might have do pushups today if they get sleepy. I did not lecture yesterday but I got a solid chunk of material to get through today.
Fourth period is a riot, I got several boys that speak a little english but are so animated and funny that I dont mind them being a little rowdy. They were really responsive and engaged so I hope that energy carries through the semester. They kept asking me to take the class to the gym to play basketball, maybe I can pawn off a lesson about the body and we can go study the body in motion... and play basketball hehe. I got a solid lecture today so I hope we can get through it, I know that I need to explain a lot of things over but my initial discouragement about Intensive English Program (IEP) students is gone. My first period class proved that they can learn the material but I still feel that biology should be offered at a higher level to the students as their English proficiency improves.
A big group of us are hoping to spend Saturday night and Sunday in Seoul this weekend. I have a couple friends I would like to meet up with and HOPEFULLY pick up a cell phone. I also need to find a place to get my pants shortened... my legs are shorter than I thought!
So far so good, I really like my kids, some of them I need to find a way to engage them, maybe I will have to do a seating chart. Overall things are going well. Hope everything is well with all of you.
A little motto I put forward to my kids:
You can do anything you wish to do, you have anything you wish to have, you can be anything you wish to be. Robert Collier.
I just wanted to apologize to everyone that has sent me an email recently and has not gotten a reply. Things have been really busy with getting lesson plans done and starting school so I have not been on top of my emailing.
Julie - the dress picture is so cute. I am glad you like it!
DJ - My skype name is Heebs6 but I am never on it.
Mom, Dad - I figured out how to present the material after reading some teaching websites, thanks for the encouragement and support.
Ann - ESL is really hard, I have a lot more respect for what you do and how hard you work. I put in 14.5 hours yesterday!
Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy - Doing my best to take care of Laura. She's doing great as a teacher! Was great to talk to you both and Alex and Roxie.
First day of school was rough. I had no idea what I was doing my first period class so they were out of it when I started to lecture because we had so much extra time after I went through the syllabus. Have one trouble kid, he sleeps through class. I made him stand the whole class period and then do pushups during the study time. He promised not to fall asleep in class tomorrow. Claims he has insomnia and cant sleep at night, I want to feel sorry for him but my IRON FIST must previal! I am going to find out if he really does have a sleeping problem and figure out how to get him to learn the material and not die from exhaustion.
I have a free period after the first class so thats 2.5 hours for planning and lunch. My third period class are one "level" higher in English ability and them seem like a good bunch, a couple sleepers though that I might have do pushups today if they get sleepy. I did not lecture yesterday but I got a solid chunk of material to get through today.
Fourth period is a riot, I got several boys that speak a little english but are so animated and funny that I dont mind them being a little rowdy. They were really responsive and engaged so I hope that energy carries through the semester. They kept asking me to take the class to the gym to play basketball, maybe I can pawn off a lesson about the body and we can go study the body in motion... and play basketball hehe. I got a solid lecture today so I hope we can get through it, I know that I need to explain a lot of things over but my initial discouragement about Intensive English Program (IEP) students is gone. My first period class proved that they can learn the material but I still feel that biology should be offered at a higher level to the students as their English proficiency improves.
A big group of us are hoping to spend Saturday night and Sunday in Seoul this weekend. I have a couple friends I would like to meet up with and HOPEFULLY pick up a cell phone. I also need to find a place to get my pants shortened... my legs are shorter than I thought!
So far so good, I really like my kids, some of them I need to find a way to engage them, maybe I will have to do a seating chart. Overall things are going well. Hope everything is well with all of you.
A little motto I put forward to my kids:
You can do anything you wish to do, you have anything you wish to have, you can be anything you wish to be. Robert Collier.
Friday, August 25, 2006
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Pics
The administration building, my class room is on the third floor - room 303.
A shot of the otherside of the campus, dorms and the cafeteria and some admin offices. They are building a fountain in the middle I believe.
A typical lunch at school, some kind of Kimchi, rice, fish, some other side dish and a soup. SOOOOooOOOo good.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Tuesday
We had our second day of In Service training, just talking about what makes a good teacher and stuff like that. I still do not know what courses I will be specifically teaching, hopefully tomorrow is when I will find out.
It's HOT. I think I drank 2 gallons of water yesterday. I cannot wait for it to cool down.
I might be coaching some sport teams, soccer, basketball and maybe volleyball. I think I will be the assistant which means I will probably be in charge of warmups and stuff like that, oh I will make them run... :D
Food is good, Kimchi and rice and fish, I think Ill loose a lot of weight here.
My roommate came in, he's a neat guy from Arizona.
I still cant get over how beautiful this country is, tomorrow I will take some pics of the scenery around our apartment and the campus.
I found some free weights so I have been lifting a bit, gonna get S T R O N G RAR.
Thats about it. Email me people, email me, I am feeling neglected.
It's HOT. I think I drank 2 gallons of water yesterday. I cannot wait for it to cool down.
I might be coaching some sport teams, soccer, basketball and maybe volleyball. I think I will be the assistant which means I will probably be in charge of warmups and stuff like that, oh I will make them run... :D
Food is good, Kimchi and rice and fish, I think Ill loose a lot of weight here.
My roommate came in, he's a neat guy from Arizona.
I still cant get over how beautiful this country is, tomorrow I will take some pics of the scenery around our apartment and the campus.
I found some free weights so I have been lifting a bit, gonna get S T R O N G RAR.
Thats about it. Email me people, email me, I am feeling neglected.
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Sunday
We went to Seoul on Sunday to attend Chuch. The church is called Onnuri English Ministry, it's a pretty large Church and contemporary. The praise music they sung was very much like what we did in ACF.
Pat: I was passing the offering bag to the person behind me and a girl two rows back reached up for it and said "Jon?" I randomly bumped into Senna. Small world, gonna try to have lunch with her next Sunday.
After Church a few of us ran around Seoul, went to Dongdaemoon for some shopping and food. We didnt have much time so we had to leave pretty quickly. We stopped at Costco on the way home, talk about a crazy place. It's down in Seoul so everyone and their mother was shopping there. 35 bucks for membership and you get wholesale prices, talk about a match made in heaven for a city of 14 million people. Hopefully next time we can go to the one in Taejang, apparently it is a less crowded.
Our training starts today, little nervous to start teaching but I think this will end the slow pace that things have been going at. I am getting a little better with the jet lag. I wake up around 4am everyday though.
Till next time.
Pat: I was passing the offering bag to the person behind me and a girl two rows back reached up for it and said "Jon?" I randomly bumped into Senna. Small world, gonna try to have lunch with her next Sunday.
After Church a few of us ran around Seoul, went to Dongdaemoon for some shopping and food. We didnt have much time so we had to leave pretty quickly. We stopped at Costco on the way home, talk about a crazy place. It's down in Seoul so everyone and their mother was shopping there. 35 bucks for membership and you get wholesale prices, talk about a match made in heaven for a city of 14 million people. Hopefully next time we can go to the one in Taejang, apparently it is a less crowded.
Our training starts today, little nervous to start teaching but I think this will end the slow pace that things have been going at. I am getting a little better with the jet lag. I wake up around 4am everyday though.
Till next time.
Friday, August 18, 2006
Pictures
Here is all my stuff. No change in the way I organize is there?
This is the view from the door. I have to rearrange the furniture to get more space out of the room. I would like to thank William and Mary for providing me with my furniture arrangement degree. It's pretty basic, two twin beds, two small desks, a double closet/dresser thing, TV, and mini fridge.
Thats the bathroom... The shower head is connected to the sink and is just there on the right side. I get to watch my fat self while I shower in the mirror, HOT!
KOREA!
Made it to Korea. Will attempt to take pictures tomorrow. Contact information to follow. Out.
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