My Last Round

So, I was recruited to teach this camp for boys. Middle school boys. Oh yea!

They are absolutely nuts, but an absolute joy to teach. I have been working that the Incheon Foreign Language Training Center (IFTC) at Yeongjeong Island this week. I worked here several times in the past as a replacement teacher for their permanent staff who had maternal leave, vacation, or this time around, car accidents.

My friend Evan got into a car accident, but he will be okay. In order to earn his insurance money, he must stay in the hospital. Don't ask me. But I was recruited by my old boss, Jenny, who worked at my previous girls' high school. She called me last minute as a sub teacher, and I was more than ready to help out an old friend.

So, its nice to have some pocket money while having one last shot at teaching. I must say, I have had a good bunch of boys, some of the best since teaching here. I was worried I would have knuckleheads galore, but instead, I have some very sincere and hard-working kids.

And this time around, my teaching is more refined and I feel like I could really connect and get to the kids. It was fun.

Activities including the usual core English objectives: writing, speaking, reading, and listening. Also, we threw in country lessons, club activities, and even goofy stuff like quiz games and English Olympics. The kids are supposed to take a break from their schools and have a chance to use English.

My homeroom class, Class 2, I nicknamed "Los Gatos," or Cats in Spanish. They are surely smart and funny, as well as slick like cats. I started out really slow my first day...especially since I haven't taught in several weeks. My class captain is Antonio Ahn, a young boy, with his loyalty and his hard work ethic, will become someone special in Korea.

Other kids include "Johnson," a pip-squeak kid who makes me laugh, and Jason, a very sarcastic but well-spoken kid. "Moon," is very sincere. "Sun," his counterpart, participates in my club activities well. Tony goofs on in class. Jimmy doesn't be quiet, but he makes me laugh. And there is Tom, a tall kid who will probably become a ladies' man.

Wow, it blows my mind that in a few weeks, I will be leaving one environment of Koreans to the land of Americans. I'm going to miss this alot. So many memories. Right now, I'm just enjoying watching them play "Mafia Wars," some kind of fun game, while they are argue all about it.

Wow Lord, I was a teacher for three years. But in this time period, I was taught more things than I could ever imagine.

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