Friday, February 29, 2008

Atrocious Behaviour

This blog is going to be two part.
I began my day with the intent of finishing of the month in style. I wanted to make the best possible finish to February before the new schedule arrives. Today may or may not be the last day of R/R before Reckoning will come.

I cleaned my house, went to Mcdonalds which I need to stop doing, and read some books. I also talked to the Pops for awhile.

I went to work and unfortunately many things were just plain weird. Sometimes I feel like after almost 9 months I have fully adapted and am ready for anything and other days I realize I make too many mistakes at times. I really need to work harder about that.

I developed a headache that unfortunately lasted me most of the day during teaching.
MA1: I felt bad because my favorite kid is leaving, and the two twins who really like me I made them feel bad because I dont call them by their English name. I prefer calling them their Korean name but apparently I made them unhappy.
I feel frusterated because I just want to improve their English but most of the kids dont listen to me no matter how hard I try.
MC3: They listened to me well today and maybe it was because I told them Mr. Jeong was going to come but he didnt. My boss is bothering me with his unactions that he is doing in the Academy.

he came to Chrisitna and I and gave us some new random ridiculous assignment. Please stamp the books what page you teach today. I think its his way of checking our progress even more but he isn't focusing on the bigger issues at hand.

MC1: After a week or two of absolutely no talking in class. They were hard to control. I felt OTL dealing with them today. JACK was absent today
MD1: There were many absent students. Sungjin was absent today.
They are brothers I heard that Jack was cheating possibly. I hope they didnt leave but I wouldnt be surprised if they did.
MD2: quick and painless. Ciarra was happy that Mr. J wouldn't be their teacher next week. She is TC1..
I am thinking Mr. J will not teach TC1 but I could be wrong.

Carrie quit today. She left without saying goodbye to me. I could care less, but she didnt say goodbye to Chrisitna either. She just got up and left right after the class was over. Maybe sooner than that too I am not sure. My boss is weird, Carrie is insane and things at Yale are whatever.
Carrie good ridance. Today she said so many stupid things
1. MY work here was terrible time.
2. That kid is stupid he can't read his handwriting. Jerry is pretty smart actually.
3. I am so happy because I am leaving
4). She slapped the back of one of the kids hard enough where I could hear it and it wasn't right.

Carrie was disgraceful. Mr. Jeong is crazy and he shouldnt have threatened her but Carrie deserves what she gets.

After teaching I got mad again at myself because the kids never tell me the truth. They go to Christina for help with my homework. I dont know if I am the only foreigner who has had this problem or if I am doing something wrong but NO ONE WILL TELL ME. It makes me sad that after 8 going on 9 months I still can't communicate with the kids in a proper way.

Homework is the biggest problem here I think. The Academy rule says do your homework or leave and frankly there should be more leaving. Cindy gave me 3 homeworks today and I checked them all.
I look at the Date and Teacher For example:

February 27th N Teacher
If the page has a lot of writing on it (1/2 page) I count it. Truthfully some kids shouldnt be here because of their poor homework. I have kids who can't write at all and are in a high class simply because of their age. I think some MA1 kids are smarter than some of my MC students.
I was really bothered because the kids dont even try at all to ask me for help.

After work I went to a tent and had some food I am too lazy to cook tonight.

As I said this is a two part post.

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