In my last blog I spoke of the gloom that had cast a deep shadow over my life. It came to a head the day before I wrote that post, but I can safely say things have improved since then. Whether it is an improvement that will stand or not I will have to see, but I will take what I can get for now.
This week at work has been interesting, although I am incapable of understanding near anything that is said in the break room, I still go in occassionally to mingle with the staff and make myself known. I do frequently feel left out, but I can see they are trying and I should do my bit to foster better relations. Also I have had some very good lessons teaching with the 5th grade teacher. We get on well which is good and he has a good class that is both fairly well behaved and willing to do the work. So the lessons spin by, plus I think because we get on the dull lessons from the book seem to work well enough.
I have other lessons with other teachers too, they are not nearly as good, but this week there have not been any painfully bad lessons either. I think this has something to do with the fact that I have been on top of the lesson planning aspect of my job. Although it is a pain and sometimes unnecessary, it does help me to get to know the material and focus on what I will need to ask the kids.
I also have plans to go out with a couple of the teachers next month, they're too busy this month due to the new semester. Also I have a trainging course next week that last almost the full length of a week. Hopefully that will be good, it looks like there are some courses planned that could be quite useful for me, but then again it could be a total waste of time as the planning in Korea is often pretty terrible.
Anyway, things are certainly looking up from the last three 3 weeks or so. That however does not mean that tings are hunky dory, rather that things have leveled back out to how they were before I went to New Zealand.
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