First lesson!;

Today was my first day "teaching" at the summer camp--I use quotes because I was only teaching one 45 minute class. It was still a busy day, though, as I had my own Korean language class all morning and then had to rush to the English language classroom to set up my computer (never thought I'd say this, but I used Powerpoint), and after that all I had time to do was run out to the shop to buy some kimbab (rice balls with kimchi meat wrapped in seaweed) and juice for lunch before the class. X_x

Anyways, since the class was doing an overarching theme of fairytales, I did a lesson on monsters. I'm not sure if they actually learned anything from it, tbh (you know how vocab goes in one ear and out the other), but as the class was 9 boys out of 12 students, they were pretty into the monster theme. As a starter, I showed pictures from D-Wars/World of Warcraft/The Host, which I knew they'd all recognize. And I got pretty much all of the kids to say at least one thing, which was my goal from the start. I thought I would be nervous as hell during the lesson but I really wasn't, actually. I didn't even feel like me really, I was 100% obsessed with monsters and slow-speed English for the whole lesson. It did learn a lot from this one experience, however, such as that I need to prepare even more in the future.

Today was intermediate English. Next week I teach advanced and beginner (beginner is a joint lesson). Good luck me!

In other news--never have I been so glad to own an umbrella. Monsoon season is definitely starting to kick off, and it's as if the heavens have opened and are falling in buckets of rain. This really explains why Korea is so green (and northern China is so dry by comparison). The whole week is supposed to be like this. Is it too early to start singing, "Rain, rain, go away...."?