so i just finished my second day of teaching. it's pretty much been insanity. 

today wasn't as bad, but yesterday was crazy. the teaching part wasn't that bad, but at the last min we were given all these handouts about the school, curriculum, tests, etc that we had to give the kids and explain, and we had to hand out the books, which took forever. so that didn't leave much time for lesson, so i had to sorta gloss over things a lot, and it was way stressful. the kids were pretty good for the most part, they just asked a lot of questions. i have 6 classes on MWF and then 4 TTh.

today started out really rough though. my first class was a class of the lowest level of kids, and there were 2 boys in the class that kept talking over me and not listening to anything i was saying. i had no idea what to do! they kept speaking korean, and they're only supposed to speak english here, so i kept trying to tell them but they kept saying no! no! no english! i managed to separate them, finally even though the one kid latched onto his chair. but they were still acting out and throwing stuff at each other. bah. i wanted to kick them out, but they haven't really told us what to do in terms of discipline. i talked to some other teachers about it, and they said that there's a plan in the works on what to do about discipline. i guess i need to figure something out in the meantime. the rest of my classes went pretty good, they seemed to really like the games i had them play. i like when they actually get involved and then it's fun. whoo.

anyways, i finished at 5:45 today cause i have the last 3 periods off. i think all the teachers do at some point today. whoo. so i'm taking a break right now, and then i have to start planning for my classes tomorrow. hopefully i can get most of it done now so i don't have to do much when i go home, and then i can just go to bed. i'm so exhausted even though i only had 4 classes today. i still have to figure out some time that i can go for my medical thing so i can get my alien card. i may end up not going til sat morning though cause i'm not sure how long it will take and i need to be back for classes by 1:30. 

anyways, i should probably get to planning. i'm getting faster at it than i was to begin with. now i just need to get better at controlling the kids and pace - sometimes i go thru things too fast and end up with extra time and nothing to do so i have to sorta make something up off the top of my head. 

i suck at discipline. they just laugh in my face and act up more. bah.