Day Two

So I have a class of Kindergarteners all morning. From 9:30 till 2:30. There are eight children in the class and only one of them speaks english at all. I spend my day singing songs like "head and shoulders" and "I had a little Turtle, his name was tiny tim" They particularly enjoy the part about the bubbles because bubble sounds like some other word in Korean which they are unable to explain to me. They are very cute and loaded with energy. Yesterday was a day spent laying out the classroom ground rules. They were aweful. Students yelling and jumping on tables. After I yelled they decided they liked happy Mr Joshua better and were mostly good for the last five minutes of the day. It is very difficult to get ideas across and so I do a lot of song and dance explaining with hand gestures. They are at least entertained for a few minutes. But it requires a lot of short activities.
Today went very well the seemed to come in with a desire to only see happy mr. Joshua. They were almost good all day. After lunch they have liquid sugar for blood and it is hard to get their heart rates down. One child is a bit of a mad man and gets a look in his eyes every once and a while and stands up and sits down making crazy faces. we will have to work on that.
They have made beautiful pictures of turtles and fish.
Anyway Korea is crazy besides the crazy kids. Yesterday evening I walked around my neighborhood. Everynight the place is crawling with people dressed to the nines driving swanky cars and drinking Soju. There are massive neon signs everywhere and livliness that is not found in much of North America. People work all night it seems. Not just people like architects who put in long hours. But mechanics have there shops open late and handymen can be seen putting up awnings at 11 o'clock at night. It is totally bizarre.
Anyway I will post pictures when I get a camera and give you more of a taste.
I love it.