Here are various pictures that I've taken with my phone (mostly) recently.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Classroom Anarchy
School atmosphere is deteriorating before my eyes. It's a fascinating, frustrating and utterly exhausting time to be here. Watching my classroom flood with running, screaming children, then seeing a 5th grade (11-year-old) student scream "What the fuck!" as he reaches his desk, I once again question the possibility of leading a civilized lesson in English. In the class preceding this one, I told two girls to cease talking, as one was turned around in her desk to chat with her friend during my lesson. The girl glanced at me for a moment, then immediately turned back around to continue her conversation. When I made her stand up, she gave a martyred expression as if so to say "How dare you punish me? I've done nothing wrong". Though they continued to stand during my lesson, they also continued their conversation until my co-teacher spoke to them in Korean, telling them to be quiet. The girl told her in Korean "I'm a human being, I can't be quiet". What was further shocking was that she had previously been one of our better students.
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