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A month into my first one-year contract in South Korea I confided to my brother over the phone that if somebody handed me the tickets, I would absolutely get on the first plane home. Nearly two years later, when my replacement arrived a couple weeks ago — just in time to give me the precious opportunity [ READ MORE ]
Stu’s article below had me thinking of previous encounters with children at school. You get the usual “Andrew teacher loves……(insert whatever name you want)” or “Andrew teacher kiss……..(again, any name they can come up with)” and other related scenarios seven year old kids can think of. Sometimes they’ll even inform the rest of the world that [ READ MORE ]
…says a boy no older than nine years old in my final class this afternoon. How does one answer this question other than to say: “How can you possibly know that word?” “Celine teacher told me,” Sam said with a characteristic sly grin. If the boy had been three years older I might have said something to [ READ MORE ]
Kids here are innately affectionate (as I’m sure is true for children everywhere) and they love hugging you, playing with you and really like being picked up and flown around the room. They also like to write notes describing their affection to their teachers. It’s really cute and if you’re an innocent new-comer to teaching you’ll [ READ MORE ]
I learned from Facebook just now that teaching in Korea essentially entails drinking Corona and carousing in a school that looks surprisingly like a bar, filled with people who look really white. At least, that’s what this facebook advertisement for job openings in “Daejon/Korea” seems to be telling me. The advert is from teacher recruitment agency [ READ MORE ]
Good news! I wont be getting scurvy again this year. You see, Teacher’s Day is just around the corner, falling on a Saturday this year (though it wouldn’t have meant a day off anyway). This means that, inevitably, teachers around the country, English or Korean, have just been showered with socks and vitamins. It’s true. I [ READ MORE ]
Ahhhhh…………a day off! Thank you children! [ READ MORE ]
OK, this is the story. I teach one of the lowest level 7 year old classes in my school, and one of the highest. The contrast between them is noticeable. From spending the morning explaining the difference between ‘his’ and ‘her’ to an afternoon of nouns and adjectives. Sometimes you gotta wonder what went wrong. There [ READ MORE ]
I was thinking recently about my first ‘contact’ with people from the Far East. It may have been in the Autumn of 1991 when Japan came to Lansdowne Road in Dublin for a Rugby World Cup game. My memories of the match are (i) that a poor Irish team laboured before eventually seeing off their [ READ MORE ]
The headline is not designed to scare off any potential teachers wishing to come to Korea, but according to the a recent survey carried out by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), students of English have shown better learning achievements in speaking, whilst enhancing their confidence and motivation when the teaching assistant was [ READ MORE ]