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[mrsquirrel]

Go on you know you want to. Let it all out. What has happened this morning? Has your cushy time table gone? All your worst classes lumped into Monday mornings? No job to go back to? Somebody stolen your desk?

Let it out.


For me - I have not timetable and no idea when I will get one. Not too bad. Pretty easy. Not toilets at the school yet though other than some all the way over at the gym.

Musn't grumble though.

[CentralCali]

Are you at a hagweon or a real school? I'm at a real school and the timetable for today is posted in the administration office. The head teacher even discussed the timetable during the morning teachers' meeting. The teachers' rest rooms are still where they were before the vacation and we male teachers also have the option of using the students' rest rooms (it's a boys' school).

[mrsquirrel]

Real school, toilets refurbished but not finished, timetable ready but teachers are now in trading talks with each other to swap classes. I will wait and see what happens.

Quite easy really - no drama. With any luck last semesters cushy timetable will be available for me.

I'm sure by the end of the day though there will be some frustrated teachers.

[Bigs]

Well, I've gone from working in two public schools to one (presumably losing the 100,000 won/month allowance I got for working two schools, and being at the school of the two that I wouldn't choose to be at), everyone got new computers and monitors except me (way to keep whitey in his place I guess), and I've been given 2nd and 3rd grade (middle school)

Fun fun fun...

[icnelly]

I left for my vacation after cleaning the rooms well enough, and figured it would stay that way...No, I walk into a mess of garbage and paper on the floors, some of my worksheets from the worksheet wall on the floor, desks left all over the place, garbage tossed into the bins without garbage bags, and my class folders, and daily lesson notebook crammed beside the dusty, chalky microphone amp instead of placed on the shelf right next to the amp.

And they stole my favorite cow pen.

BUT, as you said, must not worry too much: minor comparatively, and everything else is peachy: same schedule as last semester, and no classes for the first day.

Figured the first day back would require a bit more breaking in, but it has just kinda picked up where it left off, not bad at all.

[SPINOZA]

First day backblues

My school's had a lick of paint and it fookin needed it!

Everyone's being very nice to me and that's smashing, but I wish I was still on vacation and am a real miserable git.

My vice-principal - lovely lady, excellent English - is leaving and that's a blow.

Timetable the same! Pleased with that really.

[mrsquirrel]

I'm waiting with baited breath for the first serious one to come through. THe person who comes back to find all his stuff has been stolen or that during the vacation an evil rumour was spread about him and his colleagues all hate him.

[icicle]

My schools first day back for students was last Thursday (But I did think until just before school started on Thursday that the first day back was today .... Some miscommunication) ... And we were back to normal from 2nd period on that day ... No changes to timetable from last Semester ... So basically everything as normal ...

Icicle

[The_Conservative]

First day of school and no classes. Probably will stay that way until September. Then we'll probably just have morning classes for the first week of September and have the after-school classes begin the week after that. I'm just guessing..but that's what happened the previous two years.


My school had a major reconstruction job over the holidays...but likely still no dedicated English room unlike all the other schools that have a foreign teacher in my town. Then again I get more time off then they do...so (as said above) mustn't grumble.

[bosintang]

I started last week, but here was my complaint.

The students were apathetic, lethargic, and it was like they never had a vacation. With all the hagwon cramming and summer camps and stuff, in all likelihood, they didn't.

Asking about students vacation is like reading the minutes of a suicide cult meeting.

[cbclark4]

What did you do for Vacation?

Out of 35 students:

I went to the beach. (2)

I went to Soccer Camp. (2)

I went to my cousin's wedding. (1)

I went hiking. (1)

I went fishing. (1)

I went to Acadamy. {28}

The only complaint the computer in my first class was brand new but had not been set up for internet. I wanted to do a listening drill with a youtube clip

[spliff]

No classes this week...as far as I can tell

Found out my school is paying for my wifes ticket as well as mine for my recent vacation

gonna take off at noon on the pretense of applying for a credit card

[Atavistic]

"Opening ceremony" (my admin team LOVES ceremonies) is Thursday. First day of class (same schedule as last semeser) is Friday.

Here I sit, doing nothing. My admin team looooooves their GEPIK contract.

Actually, I wrote loose monthly plans for my advanced (extra, OT) classes for the rest of the year and wrote next week's (first full week) plans for regular class.

So now I'm working on my website and making a photo album of my vacation in Vietnam. Tomorrow's agenda: Korean studies and more website tweaking. Wednesay, I'm brining in my knitting.

[midian3x]

Friday I was told I wouldnt have any classes today.

Today- 10 mintues before 9 I am informed that I have classes today.

Nothing prepared so I use the camp lesson I did friday while one of the "co teachers" ruffles through the book wondering why I am not teaching the lesson.

last year this definitley would have had me upset but now- eh.

[ella]

Toxic fume convention. ^%&$# smokers.