RAVING/HAPPY SH!T MEGATHREAD

No one's shown up to my "camp" for three days! Amazing!

I love how my CT doesn't even lift a finger when I tell her, too. Just smiles and says "You must be boring!" 

What a f*ckin' joke. And NO ONE cares. Time for a nap hahaha

PS: Happy birthday new mod Skyehawks dude 

10 students showed up for the first day of camp!!  A goodly even number for some relay race type games.  I was expecting less. 

Really glad I snagged water balloons last time I was in the city.  They were a huge hit and easily the students' favorite part.  And camp was half an hour shorter than I thought it was going to be! 

Not a bad start. 

10 students showed up for the first day of camp!!  A goodly even number for some relay race type games.  I was expecting less. 

Really glad I snagged water balloons last time I was in the city.  They were a huge hit and easily the students' favorite part.  And camp was half an hour shorter than I thought it was going to be! 

Not a bad start.

How did you go about using water balloons in your camp?

10 students showed up for the first day of camp!!  A goodly even number for some relay race type games.  I was expecting less. 

Really glad I snagged water balloons last time I was in the city.  They were a huge hit and easily the students' favorite part.  And camp was half an hour shorter than I thought it was going to be! 

Not a bad start.

How did you go about using water balloons in your camp?

The way nature intended   

Just a few simple games.  Did a relay race where they had to pass water balloons down their team's line-- first team to put so many in a bowl is the winner! 

And that game where you toss it to a partner then take back a step and the last surviving pair is the winner! 

Then time was running out and they were itching to play "survivor" so I told them the driest person at the end would be the winner! and they all just went nuts.   

I have a 10 day camp. on the 5th and 10th day we are having massive watergun, water balloon fights as a break from learning but also to give them something fun to look forward to after working so hard.

Before you ask, no that is not all they are doing on those days. We are learning theme park based vocabulary those days since that is where some will be going this summer. Also it ties nicely into school water day as it teaches words like wave pool, roller coaster.... what better words to learn before having massive water fight?

Kids have happily been playing ERS for the last half hour. 

Wow lunch was so good today!
Salad, watermelon, potato soup, and meatloaf (surprisingly good).

Now just 3.5 hrs left.....

I have a few special needs students scattered throughout my classes.

One kid in particular is a nightmare to teach. Hell on wheels.  The Korean teachers have no idea what to do with him or how to handle him.  But this kid has wormed his way into my heart.

He loves anything art related.  You tell him the activity has a drawing portion and he's all over it.  He is also incredible at drawing-only 10 years old and he can draw circles around me.

Anyways, he's in my summer camp and today was art day.  There was drawing and painting and just being imaginative.  The look on his face when I explained the day's plan was priceless. I've never seen a smile so big (he is usually very withdrawn and unresponsive).  My heart just completely melted .
He even said gave me a bright "Goodbye, teacher!" when he left. And that's not something he does very often. 
I'm thinking of sneaking an extra art activity into tomorrow's plan just for that smile.

Kids have happily been playing ERS for the last half hour.

ERS?

Working towards a teaching certification.

Mantra
Can't wait to vacate

Okay, so I just got back from seeing Dunkirk again, but in Yongsan this time, having seen it at Starium YDP on opening day. They just had a complete reno of the buidling done. My god. This is the nicest cinema complex I've ever seen. And with these renovations came a new IMAX theatre.

It's supposed to be the biggest IMAX screen in the world. And it's Laser IMAX. What's that, you ask. Holy shit. This is the best cinema presentation I've ever seen. I've never been on the digital side of the fence before. This changes my mind. It doesn't use a traditional xenon lamp to throw the picture at the screen. It uses 6 lasers (RGB) and TWO projectors (so 12 lasers). It is bright and it's in 4K and it looks absolutely fantastic.

I'm completely blown away. Go, seriously. Even if you don't particularly want to see Dunkirk. Even if you've already seen Dunkirk.

I've worked in a few theatres (in projection), and I've been to many more in my 32 years. This one is the pinnacle of presentation.

Working towards a teaching certification.

Mantra
Can't wait to vacate

Good luck!  Question though: to get a teaching certification from my home country I need to do in-school placements, meaning I physically have to be at home rather than do the course on-line.  That's not a problem for you?

Working towards a teaching certification.

Mantra
Can't wait to vacate

Good luck!  Question though: to get a teaching certification from my home country I need to do in-school placements, meaning I physically have to be at home rather than do the course on-line.  That's not a problem for you?

Yes I have to do in school observations, which can be done at any point. My plan is to finish the academic portion before leaving Korea. Once I settle I will do my observations. Certain districts do have placements during summer school.

Not sure where you're from, but in the US each state has different requirements. Some are more restrictive then others.

Working towards a teaching certification.

Mantra
Can't wait to vacate

Good luck!  Question though: to get a teaching certification from my home country I need to do in-school placements, meaning I physically have to be at home rather than do the course on-line.  That's not a problem for you?

Yes I have to do in school observations, which can be done at any point. My plan is to finish the academic portion before leaving Korea. Once I settle I will do my observations. Certain districts do have placements during summer school.

Not sure where you're from, but in the US each state has different requirements. Some are more restrictive then others.

Yeh cool.  I'm from Australia. All the courses I have looked at say that I can do the academics online up to a point, but then I have to do the placements within certain timeframes or else I can't go forward with the academics anyhow.  So you're lucky that it seems that you have some more freedom

Kids have happily been playing ERS for the last half hour.

ERS?

Egyptian Ratscrew!  A card game.  I've yet to discover the origin of why it's called that...

http://www.bicyclecards.com/how-to-play/egyptian-rat-screw/

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, just spent the last 5 hours making a huge batch of makgeolli. 1.8kg of 맵쌀, 1.8kg of 찹쌀 both organic. 3.6L of Jeju water and 350g of my friends homemade rice nuruk.

Its now bubbling in a 12L Hangari.

Waygook party? ahahahaha

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, just spent the last 5 hours making a huge batch of makgeolli. 1.8kg of 맵쌀, 1.8kg of 찹쌀 both organic. 3.6L of Jeju water and 350g of my friends homemade rice nuruk.

Its now bubbling in a 12L Hangari.

Waygook party? ahahahaha

Nice!! I hope it all goes well. I am slowly preparing to distill whisky.

Got a tattoo on Wednesday at Seoul Ink

https://imgur.com/a/nZ0rY

It's not a pokeball, you cretins. It's the Atlantic Records symbol. hahahah

My brother thought it was the Indian Flag.

Already got my eyes on the next tattoo, albeit B+W

EDIT: Actually, ForeverParadise, my shirt is a Manitoulin Island Split Rail Brewery T-shirt. Good luck in Wikki man. Le monde ce n'est pas si grande que ca.   

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Steve Jobs inspires a defector’s turnaround
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