No first day at a new teaching job in Korea is complete without at least one schedule change and/or at least one unplanned-for new class. These types of things don't really bother me, actually. But it's worth noting that all other differences aside, some things are always the same, this being Korea, and all.
Jus' sayin'.
Actually, I'm in stunningly high spirits. We'll see how that pans out in the face of actual students.
I woke up feeling congested and flu-ey. And then, looking at the local weather online, I saw why: 황사 [hwang-sa = yellow dust] – Seoul’s spring scourge, fresh from the Gobi Desert. See the cute, yellowish, disgusting cloud icon, at left?
The sky definitely has a yellowish cast to it. I closed my window.
Today is my first day of actual teaching, at my new job. I will have middle-schoolers – I haven’t taught middle schoolers since I was at LinguaForum, in 2008. I remember that my success with this age group was much less of a sure thing than with the elementary students – so I feel some anxiety, I suppose.
