Winter Camp

I started winter camp today, although realistically nothing much happened.  I introduced myself to a bunch of students and they had nothing to ask me, as usual.  Then they did a bit of writing about themselves, which was also very little since I was in with the lower ability kids today.  All in all it wasn't too bad a day really.  I start tomorrow for real.

Now I'm the new guy, I've only been in the country for just over 3 weeks and looking at the schedule it's pretty unfair and surely not taking advantage of the fact that there are two other native English speaking  teachers participating.  I have four classes each day, while the others are averaging 2 a day.  It seems a little unfair.  Now I do understand why they are doing it, it is because I have no afternoon classes and the others do, but from my perspective of having turned up at their school and been given unfamiliar material and having most of the work dumped on me, well it just feels wrong.

Well I have no control over the issues, so I should just prepare best I can, but there is one obvious flaw, which is that I have been booked in to teach two classes at the same time, duh.  Well I hope that will get sorted, or I'll just pick the one I want to teach and dump the other on them as they have on me.

Well aside from those moans I have at least been given a book as guide for this camp, so at least I don't have to prep everything like I do in the after school classes I teach at my own school. 

Also today I returned to my own school in the afternoon as I shall be doing everyday, so that I can prep for the next AND because I want to get paid only to find a bunch of students had turned up to take a lesson with me that I was not scheduled to run.  Well I took the class anyway, I didn't do a proper lesson because I had nothing prepared AND because they were vastly varying in age, so I just played with them a bit until their parents came for them.

So aside from school I also found the bank yesterday, that's useful because my wallet it running pretty dry of the initial money I took with me.  I didn't withdraw anything, but I wanted to know where it was and whether I could actually use it, which I can and it's got an English option.  :)  So anyway it was interesting to find out that I am a millionaire over here in Korea, although that's seriously not difficult, I would propose all but the homeless are millionaires.  Therefore after the intial "wow I have more than a million" it was closely followed by, "oh, yeah, but that's bugger all comparatively."

Aye well that's that.  If anything of any real interest occurs at Winter Camp I'll be sure to let y'all know.  Bye.