most of us prizefighters

deery-lou.
on friday we had our easter party. in preparation for the big day we decorated eggs and hid them throughout the school. seeing that white eggs are almost impossible to find we had about 30 brown eggs to decorate. i came up with the idea to just put stickers on the eggs. i mean, who wants to sit there and paint stencils onto the eggs like they wanted too. not me. so off i went to the stationary store to find up some easter-like stickers. in addition to the real eggs we also had some chocolate kinder eggs that were filled with jelly beans and some little toys in an egg container. someone had the bright idea to wrap all the eggs in tin foil. that way the kids wouldn't be able to tell the chocolate ones from the real ones. as if it really mattered. so after class i found myself wrapping eggs. boring!!!

easter eggs hunts were always my favorite part of easter. i could do without the chocolate and candy. tearing through my house as a child in search of the those eggs was always the thrill. my sister and i made my parents hide eggs up until we were in high school. of course by this time the plastic eggs were filled with pocket change. when i was three my pops took my sister and i to an easter egg hunt hosted by the city we lived in. children were separated into age groups. my father not knowing my age signed me up for the five year olds group. needless to say i didn't get any eggs that year.

the egg hunt was a big hit with the kids. they ran around the school in herds searching them out. it took them awhile to figure out that it would be best to go off on their own. aferall 16 kids in one room only the strong would survive. it was fun to watch them. they'd run up to us saying "hint, hint". i tried to give them the old "you're getting hot or cold" but that was lost on them. my hints turned into me actually showing them where the egg was. prizes were given to all the children depending on how many eggs they found. they all found one at least one. the rest of the day was spent making crafts. the kids were separated into age groups: 7 year olds & 5-6 year olds. in my class we made bunny head pencil toppers. which really meant that claire & i did most of the work.

bunny pencil topper

5/6 year olds

7 year olds

it seems like the days when we have parties are so much harder than normal days. its probably because we are constantly on the go. the easter party was no exception. to make matters worse our head teacher didn't show up until 2pm. thats when kindergarten ends. she never bothered to call either. let's just say i was slightly pissed. especially since it meant we all had to do more. when she finally arrived it looked as if she had been drinking all night, which was probably the case. i think she spent most of her classes watching movies. hmm. at point during the day i found her asleep. two students noticed her sleeping as well. now that's a great example to set. her class was about to start so i went up to our director and told her that someone needs to wake her up. come on! of course by the time school was over she felt well enough to go out again.

teaching is H.A.R.D

as i've mentioned before i've been teaching overtime until we get a new teacher at the junior school. one of the classes i have are these two boys hyeong-joon and tae-gon. these two are definitely a handful. they spend most of the class time making spit bubbles and getting into trouble. but they are definitely smart boys. just a little spoiled. for some reason they seem to respond to me. i told my boss that i thought it was a mistake to give this class to the new teacher. always up for a challenge i told him that we should switch my 3:30 class with this class. that way the new teaching can have the zombie students i teach. not sure if they're gonna do it or not. i'll just have to wait and see.

hyeong-joon

tae-gon

young teacher and i went out for dinner to have a bitch session. as great as my school is, it does have its problems. after three years of no change i think i've finally have had it. there's something definitely going on there with the upper management and owner. i mean we have people there that are definitely not doing their jobs yet nothing happens. my boss will say things like "she's through" or "i'm gonna fire her" but he never does. i don't even think our head teacher got in trouble for missing most of the day. meanwhile there are those of us working our asses off and don't get recognized for it. instead they gives us more to do. all of this has gotten me to think about how much longer i'll stay in korea. however, if i do stay i do know that it's my last year at this school. i have a verbal agreement to stay there until february 2008 but my original/written contract ends in sept 2007. i'm thinking about my options.

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