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[GingerTosser]

I also am interviewing with S.O.T. and was wondering if I can join in on any info you all find out. Thanks

[jamo]

just found this on someone's blog about SOT :

I�ve been back in Korea for almost 5 days now. I�ve moved into my apartment, meet my boss and coworker, and had a hour session with my new kindy class. So it�s been a busy week!

Dealing with my apartment was a bit of a challenge. I thought that the school had already arranged an apartment for me, so I wasn�t too excited when they told me that we would have to go apartment hunting, and that the school was only providing us with $400/month for rent. Lauren (one of my co-workers), Steve (an administrative person from the school), and I ended up finding a few apartments that were in our price range. So I am now living in a tiny little studio about 6 subway stops away from my school. At first I was freaking out about having to live there for a whole year, but when my furniture arrived and I had arranged and unpacked it started to feel a bit like home. My favortie thing about the apartment is that there is a really cool little traditional Korean Market only a few blocks away. So I can just wander down the street and buy fruit, veggies, homemade tofu, kitchen stuff, and pretty much anything I would want from little stalls on the side of the road. I love not having to shop in those Wal-Mart type stores!

My school seems pretty good, but I was not prepared for how many hours we would be working in the day. I am with my kindy kids from 9:30am until 2:30 pm with albsolutely no breaks!! (Well, 30 mins for lunch, but that doesn�t really count.) Than I�ll be teaching elementary school kids for 4 hours after that on Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays (again with no breaks)! I knew there had to be a catch, for the school to be paying me so much. I�m trying to look on the bright side, but that is a lot of teaching and no prep time or down time between classes.

I am teaching a 6 year old (Korean age, so really 5 year old) kindy class. The kids and their moms came to school today for an hour to meet me and have a little meeting with the principal. 1 of the little boys took one look at me and then started bawling for about 45 minutes. (I�m the first westerner most of them have seen, so I must be pretty scary!) But luckily by the end of class he had joined in to sing songs and was giving me high hi�s. I have a few kids that are super smart. One girl spoke in full sentences, knew how to write in English, count, knew all of her colors and numbers etc! I will also have an assistant teacher in my classroom with me all day, but she doesn�t really speak English so that will be interesting.

Well, that�s pretty much it for now. I�ll let you know how I�m settling into new life later on.

[low06]

I'm gonna bump this thread

I got contacted to take an interview with an S.O.T school also. However, this school is in Gangseo gu Seoul instead of the Seocho campus. Like the others I can find next to nothing on the internet about it, especially the campus in Gangseo. Everything I'm finding is about the one in Seocho. If anyone has any information about the school I'd really appreciate it!

[BooG690]

Bump. Anybody work at SOT willing to share their experiences?

[Laura_F]

I used to work there. It has its pros and cons. The pros are the pay, tons of foreign coworkers, and that one day where you finish at 2:15. The cons are that one of the supervisors is the devil (but it's a big school, so she might not be your supervisor), and the relatively heavy workload.

If you have any specific questions, I'd be happy to answer them by PM.