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[tiger fancini]

Mine is going ok (one week in so far), although I am keeping it very informal and trying to make it fun rather than a chore for the students. Of course they are doing SOME work, and I'm giving them plenty of handouts to take home to show their folks what wonderful and pretty work they are doing.

This is my first time teaching at a camp, and I have to say I certainly prefer it to my regular classes. The informal atmosphere, the nice long breaks between 'sessions', and the lack of any co-teachers certainly makes for a happy atmosphere. Added to that, the fact that most of the students here actually want to learn some English and don't just view my lesson as time out of their home rooms!

Next up is a Geography lesson using good old Google Earth - once the students finish my capital city wordsearch, they will have to locate the capitals and countries!

[laogaiguk]

I would do camps all year if I could, but they don't learn as much, so that is just impossible. I actually look forward to my camps, because it gets me up early, and I am done at 12, so I have the entire day ahead of me. I would have just lazed around the apartment after getting up late anyways

[poet13]

I have fifteen super kids for 2 hours every morning. We haven't played a game yet, 'cause they are super keen and their books are open five minutes before class starts. Apparently getting into this camp was based on merit, not on $'s, so it's been great.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Mine consisted of leading eight of my students on a seven-day trip to Canada, staying at my sister's place, and playing tour guide around the Vancouver area. It was one of the busiest weeks of my life, but very rewarding and a lot of fun.



Did you get to spend summer camp making sandcastles on the beach with your students?



Or taking them to your aunt and uncle's for dinner?



Or exploring canyons, herding in shopping centres, visiting garbage-free streets, or walking Koreans by a drug deal happening right on a city sidewalk? If your summer camp sucked, try giving an overseas trip a try next time around.
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[Yesanman]

Perhaps too personal a question but..
Was your trip summer camp lucrative?
I've been thinking about doing that for a long time and I'm doing it next summer.
Having a hard time trying to figure out how much to charge.
Did you run into any big problems?

[Boodleheimer]

mine totally bit.

i work for a public school and they "volunteered" me for a camp. it was 3 12-hour days and 1 6-hour day. it was based on an english village, so i ran the convenience store for 7 hours a day for two days. the rest was team-building, etc. i got home exhausted every night and i only got 350,000KRW for it.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Mine has been a real mix.

I started off teaching 3 weeks of summer camp for my high school boys. Only 6 showed up for the morning group, and those 6 kept changing so it was a real struggle to have any continuity. In the afternoon group only 4 showed up, but they came every day. It was an OK experience.

Then my high school failed to find a replacement and asked me to drop the high school camp after a week and start over with 2 groups of middle school kids. The early group (Grade 3) is spectacular and we're having a great time. These kids will definitely be going on to good high schools (not mine). The second group (Grades 1 & 2) are at an amazingly lower level. Even with another year of good teaching they won't measure up to the other group next year. But they're having a pretty good time.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[laogaiguk]

I was thinking last night, if I ever got a chance to do something like this, I would like to take them on a tour of an elementary, jr high or high school (depending on what grades they were in) for a day. Does anyone else think they would be interested in that? Maybe even meet other students (I am sure most schools would be up for a foriegn class coming for a day tour). I would love to show my kiddies my old elementary school.

[Francis-Pax]

[Yu_Bum_suk]