Classy classes

Well, I taught two sets of students today. The first class went very very well. I had three hours with them, as they are grade 8s and they get a lot of English to begin with. All subjects are taught in English here so in their first year, they get a lot of English instruction. I get to mould young mind (picture evil laugh) Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...

I had great rapport with the students. they were allowed to ask me ANY question they wanted and unlike Koreans the first questions were not "Where are you from? How old are you? Are you married". They did eventually come up, but the best questions were "Why did you choose to come to BG?", "How do you feel being in a country where you do not understand anything that is said around you?" and finally "What countries have you been to?"

When I announced that the 15 minute question period was up and this would be the last question, someone piped up and said "Are you married?", but no one asked me how old I was till the second class, and when he did, another student said "That's not a polite question." Again- totally against Korean traditions.

Speaking of the second class, they are older, and much more comfortable with their surroundings. They think they are in charge and that will soon have to change, so I need to figure out how.

For those of you with electronic clocks, beware that you must set the right 24 hour period. I set my clock to 6pm and woke up with a start at 7:12am. I am supposed to be in school at 7:45 and it takes me 20 minutes to walk here at a leisurely pace. I was not happy and neither was Oscar at the lack of his walk today. Sorry Oscar, I will make it up to you.