today i made one kid in my lowest level stand against the wall and i stood behind him so he couldn't move. it sorta worked, i almost made him do it again but then class was over. 

i think the school is going to come up with some kind of reward system to try to motivate the kids more. 

i see all the other teachers at school every day. we have a staff room where all the korean and native english teachers have desks. 5 of each, cause we have co-teachers. one korean to one native english teacher. we share classes sorta where i'll have one class of kids while my co-teacher has another, and then we switch classes and subjects. i do language arts mostly, with a little bit of science. 

we just eat lunch at our desks, we don't go out anywhere. i get food from a lil restaurant called starlite - it has sandwiches, salads, etc. i usually get a bagel and cream cheese cause i don't like a lot on my stomach before class.  we're all sorta on the same schedules - same hours, but different breaks. 

we don't really ride the subway to school together anymore since we all know how to get there on our own. i usually go in early too to work on lesson plans and printing flashcards for my classes. we make a lot of visuals to keep them interested. we mostly come up with games on our own but we kinda share what we're doing too with others. 

today went okay. my first class wears me out though - it's my lowest level class and they don't listen to me half the time. it's takes so much energy to get anything done. that's the class i made the kid stand against the wall. i was so fed up with all of them, i probably should've made all of them stand against the wall.  

hayley and i went back for our medical checks today, this morning. it went ok, but neither of us could pee! (for the urine test). it took forever for me to, and hayley barely did at all. we're wondering if we'll have to go back, but oh well. it was especially awkward cause they only had squatters. i felt like a lil kid in the woods. 

that picture with all of us was for todd's birthday (on facebook). teresa, hayley, anna, todd & me. go here for the album.

we're the 5 native english teachers at the sunae campus. though anna has it good cause she's australian but she's korean. i think she grew up in australia all her life, so she speaks both english and korean. it's funny, today we were talking about how she can hear the kids when they're talking about her in korean, heh. i wonder about that, how often the kids are talking about me. 

it's pretty funny, most of the cereal i can find around here is post cereal, like in the pic of my groceries. the milk is kinda weird here though, it doesn't taste or smell the same. 

it's sorta getting easier, but i feel like i'm too nice. i need to be harsher i think to get the kids to listen to me. sometimes they are such lil shits! hehe. and some of them are really cute . . . teacher jennifer! teacher jennifer! or jennifer teacher! they say to me, hehe. cracks me up. one kid gave me an orange too.