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[kateinkorea]

Well whining or not (thanks for your input Corporal), I have quit my job today.

Today the parents came to see me like a monkey in a cage, entertain the children for my kindergarten class. What a humiliating experience.

My oldest kindergarten student who is 6 controls the class on some days. Some days she comes into the school in a foul mood. She gets in a snit and won't listen to anything I say. The other kids follow her lead. If I get strong with her she conspires against me and gets the others to completely not listen to me. Other days she is just a sweet heart and I really like her a lot. My youngest student is 3, just barely and still pees his pants and even pooped in them one day. He cries instantly if I get too forceful with him and then my director gets upset. He also cries just about every class because one of the other kids picks on him. I find it hard to manage all of this and not be able to understand a word they are saying or be able to say anything to them because I can't speak English.


As for experience with children...I have raised two, one with ADD and have had lots of experience...but this is different. The area I live in is very racist and why would my kids not be.

Tonight my co-worker and I were walking after work and he was smacked hard by a very big Korean man for no reason. Last Sunday I was asked to leave the table I was sitting at so Korean people could have my table in a restaurant.

I am really looking forward to getting out of here!

And yes...Paul in comment to what you have said....
I think I would be happier not teaching children...I am getting too old to feel like a babysitter. I hope I have some chance of getting a job in Seoul where I can teach older kids and or adults.

I am pretty nervous now that I will be half way across the world from my home and in one month I will have no job or home if I don't land something pretty quick.