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bosintang · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:16 pm Post subject: Public School Welcoming Ceremony

Just had ours. They're a riot, aren't they?

I always feel like I'm at a meeting of the 3rd Reich with all the fascist music and sea of students who look like clones of each other.

No matter what, I always seem to come off like a bumbling idiot at these things.

Boodleheimer · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject:

you had to speak? i just was introduced with the other FL teachers.

and my last day is march 12. what's the point? (except, of course, to show a white face.) we're evidently supposed to start teaching this afternoon, but i haven't gotten a schedule. it's 11:25!

Boodleheimer · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject:

oh, and the ceremony started with "Pomp and Circumstance" wtf?!?!?!

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

We probably had one, but I wasn't asked to attend. Crying or Very sad

ilovebdt

bosintang · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:08 pm Post subject:

Nah, didn't have to speak, but just felt awkward where to stand, where to go and when and so on...

I asked my co-teacher yesterday whether there was going to be an opening ceremony, and she said no. Maybe she didn't understand me. Regardless, I was the only teacher not wearing a suit.

Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

Mines tomorrow. Saturday, what a shame. I don't know if I am expected to do anything other than show up. But on the plus side, todays my first day of work and its just making lesson plans.

Which according to my coteacher should be mainly games and small conversation so as to be an ice breaker for the students. So I guess I have nothing to complain about..

rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

Came early wearing a suit just in case.Nothing came of it though.

Have an office to make use of with a new Epson projector,printer,mini-photocopier,wharfedale speaker system.Sweet.

Not doing anything today though.Just student seating arrangements to mix them up and be less of a headache.

Student broadcasting still playing Korean techno over the school PA.

Can't smoke at school.WTF???

Asked students about their holiday.

Shocked

"Computer game." Very Happy

Farrrrrrcccccccckkkkkkkkk.Here we go again.Start from scratch.

jaderedux · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Lurking outside Seoul

aphong420 · Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Location: KOREAAAAAAH

Yeah we just had ours too. It's a little bit intimidating and I felt like my knees were going to buckle. Fortunately, I survived the experience.

On that note .... All I've done today is sit at my desk and browse the internet. I don't have to teach, and no one's really asking me to do anything. Why the hell am I here?

Boodleheimer · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject:

aphong420 · Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Location: KOREAAAAAAH

Time to bust out the Soju!

butlerian · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Location: Korea

What a pointless and odd day. Today I arrived at school to find that my desk had been given to a new Korean English teacher, and I'd been moved - apparently due to instructions from the Education Office that all foreign teachers should be - to the English Zone room. This means I'm separated from all of the other teachers in a big cozy room with a plasma screen TV, surround sound and nice armchairs. It's hard to know whether this has been done to please me or simply get me out of the way!

I also had no teaching, so I just went home before noon because they haven't set up the computer yet, and so all I could do there was watch movies when I really wanted to sort out my lesson plan for next week.

dmbfan · Joined: 09 Mar 2006

Nope. Nothing for me either. I know they had a introduction, or some formal thing with the kids, but I was not asked to attend.

It is a worthless day. I have no schedule. If I knew it would have been like this, I would have have scrapped this day, and spent four more days in Camodia, rather than come back for this.

Oh well...........thats korea for ya.

cheers.

dmbfan

ilovebdt · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul

poet13 · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:02 pm Post subject:

Yup, opening ceremonies here too. Perhaps 250 parents attended. I think waaay to many yummy mummies were waaay to interested in meeting me. Confused

Must have been the new suit.

One thing I noticed. I, at 5'9", am actually taller than every one of the 237 new 1st year boys. Yah! There are some tiny ones, maybe 4'6" or less. Only a couple of dozen of the second year boys are taller than me...but there's a whole pile of 3rd year kids who are taller. In the US, I think a good 20% of the 13 year olds are taller than me.

It was funny to see the 2nd and 3rd year boys correcting the new kids for addressing me by name only (with the "teacher" after).

It was ok.