Another Egg in the Basket

A day has unfolded in Korea and has such I write about it. I would like to start off by saying something about CONCEPT yet again.
I have mis represented my material and need to correct myself. I have found many people here to have lost a concept of Reality. The only concept that truly matters. While its true we all make our own concept and there is no right or wrong way to think there still lies a presence of mind to bear the right attitude in certain situations. Students calling teachers stupid or insulting them is beneath me. These are just a few of the underlying examples at the Academy but they are everywhere and unfortunately it seems like a lot of mis-conceptions of reality are residing in YALE.

Today I spent a lot of time worrying about things I shouldn't. All in good time. I am in the process of trying to sequester those fears and cumbersome thoughts.

Todays classes were nothing short of spoon feeding some English to kids who predominately don't care. First class, passed quickly and I was just glad to get it over with.

I taught my best class who only has a few troublesome students. I am going to have to crunch on them more this coming Saturday, its ridiculous.

TD1 is my worst class and today I railed on one student. I am sick of making extra copies because she is too lazy to remember her book. I usually have Miss Jeong do it but since I sit in the class with nothing to do because my boss has been too lazy to provide complete teaching aides and materials I have to just sit and wait with baited breathe to a bunch of Zombie like hominids who make the dead seem more approachable. So today I made my own copies and killed 5 minutes pounding the copy machine which doesn't work too well. I caught a glimpse of the secretary scuttling about performing some top level babysitting work that obviously is more important than making sure the kids can have copies of a textbook. She could track down new books instead of number crunching sometimes book-keeping and sometimes making private cell phone calls.

So TD1 angered me so much. I gave the girl more homework for sleeping in class, coming to class unprepared and just screwing with my mind. To be honest with you there are maybe 10 kids who I don't like at all. I had a soft heart and tried to be super nice to them but they have turned me into a prick. I don't take any cuff from anybody anymore. I told Vicki I would be happy if I made Justina Drop. She is a complete waste of teaching time. Maybe these are strong opinions but you would have to be in my shoes to understand how the kids have effected my teaching. I miss normal schools where kids talked to me and said hi how are you. I miss questions that I could explain instead of being drained out by my own voice when no one cares.

Yes, it may sound like I pretty much hate my job. For the most part I do. There are some perks. The top one is that I get to work side by side my girlfriend and I can help her with her fears/worries and problems. We get the mornings off. We have a bank for Coffee. We have Vicki. We have just the Teachers so we don't have to worry about the lack of concept coming from above etc. Other than working every Saturday I see this place like any other job. A little more discipline and a little more action would make this job much better. Self Concept is what hurts YALE I believe. I think I ave found a gold pot coming here though. I can forget about all the bad things each and everyone of them because I have all the riches I could want.


So another day another story tomorrow is Holiday Thank God! Keeping busy over here. I don't have water for 2 days. Its part of the Gumi revamp plan for the next 2 days. I think its the strangest thing to have happen to me since coming her but I guess we will see outcome of this.

I am EXCITED for wonderful weekend though!