A week ago I was just leaving Samnye South Korea, and now I am starting to get settled (just a bit) back in Grand Rapids Minnesota (USA). For good or ill, this last week feels like it took about 5 years to get through. So…last week… and now, this week… I am thankfully past the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gimje’
In with a bang, out with a…
Posted in English, Korea, my apartment, School, Teaching, tagged Gimje, Jeonju, Korea, picture on July 22, 2009 |
I started this blog about a month after I get here in Jeonju South Korea. My time teaching in Gimje is now over (sadly enough), and I am now preparing to teach at an immersive, three week language camp. This task will not allow me to have any online access, so this post will have [...]
Teaching in Gimje…
Posted in English, Korea, School, Teaching, tagged Gimje, Jeonju, Korea on July 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the last several months I have gotten a number of inquiries from potential teachers asking what life in Gimje is like. Since I am now finished teaching in Gimje, I thought I would summarize my experiences for future teachers benefit. The crux of the issue for most of these questions is: how does teaching [...]
Since March 2009…
Posted in Korea, my apartment, School, Teaching, tagged Gimje, Jeonju, Korea, picture on July 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
At the beginning of March 2009 I started teaching in Gimje, once again. This time I would be teaching at both the Gimje Middle School as well as the Morning Start Girl’s middle school (a private school…). The Girl’s school… like the sign says… I’ve been teaching at both of these two schools for the [...]
since September 2008…
Posted in Korea, my apartment, School, tagged Gimje, Jeonju, Korea, picture on July 12, 2009 |
AS I prepare to leave Korea (sooner than I thought!), and I finish my last week teaching in the public schools, I thought that this would be a good time to look over all that I’ve experienced, accomplished, and seen over these very short months. Unfortunately this is July, the rainy season, and I am [...]
The Morning Star Girl’s Middle School in Gimje…
Posted in English, Korea, School, Teaching, tagged Gimje, Korea, School on June 2, 2009 |
I finally have a number of posts to put on this blog written by my 2nd grade (8th grade in the USA) girls. All of these six ‘stories’ cover their class trip they took in late April. They had a chance to go to the Korean equivalent of Disneyworld (Everland), the Korean equivalent of Camp [...]
This post is not that important other than to let my readers (plural?) know that my internet connection at home has been down for the last week… No Internet… No Post… I do want to let you know that my 2nd grade (8th grade back in the USA…) classes at the Girl’s school I teach [...]
I’ve gotten a lot of comments about the spring blossoms here at my two schools. They certainly were spectacular! But, they are mostly gone now. Things are warming up, and I can expect that summer is fast approaching. To show you, I have a few pictures of the same bushes and trees at the Gimje [...]
English Names…
Posted in English, Korea, School, Teaching, tagged English, Gimje, Korea on May 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Most of my Korean English teachers and some of my students have ‘English Names’. For some of the students, they are given names when they attend after school academies for English lessons. This naming invariably leads to some typical (read ‘boring’) names…Mike, Tom, Mary, etc. The Korean English teachers I have worked with have names [...]
