We found out Wednesday what classes we'll teach for Fall Term starting this Monday. Excited to have more reading classes - it's funny because I was initially trained in Listening but I've come to enjoy reading a lot more, especially with the higher level classes. Sometimes Listening is hard to stretch out with the huge amount of time we have, but Reading is easier to stretch out with discussions of the articles and really just talk to the kids.
I am teaching one of the lowest level classes for the first time, so slightly nervous about that only because I was spoiled with speed and large discussions with my high level classes this term. It will be quite an adjustment slowing down my speech, making sure all the young kids are on task, and figuring out how to teach it since I was never trained for this class.
One aspect I'm most looking forward to is having some kids from this term or a previous term again. A lot of my hilarious, witty, and/or sarcastic boys are in one of my many reading classes. Can't wait to practice and use my dry sense of humor, a sense of humor not fully appreciated or understood in Korea unless you've traveled or seen Western humor in films or TV.
Speaking of humor, I saw Bridesmaids Friday as it's finally come to Korea. I expected more focus on all of the bridesmaids, but overall still a very very funny movie. Again, this kind of humor, especially considering some of it is crass, is not always the same kind of humor Koreans generally watch. They laughed, but not as hard or often as four Americans.
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