Showing posts with label pool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pool. Show all posts

August 23, 2009

What a Week

Well, I just finished up a pretty crazy week. Our school had parent teacher conferences for all of the Kindergarten students this saturday.

It started for me on Tuesday morning when the owner of the school walked into my room and said "are you ready for the video?" I said, "what?" It turns out they had expected me to know that they wanted to shoot a video of the kids for the conference and had expected me to rehearse some lines with them. All I had heard was when the other foreign teacher, Chae, told me that they were shooting a video with her kids the week before.

I really had no idea what they wanted me to do until they showed me the video from the year before on Wednesday morning. By that time I only had Thursday to come up with what I wanted them to say and rehearse with them. I think it ended up OK, but there was a lot of pressure on the kids to memorize the lines and film in an hour and a half. One girl cried every time we tried to film her, but she finally was able to comply on Friday morning.

The conferences went well, but I wasn't too happy to give up my Saturday morning/early afternoon which actually ended up forcing me to sacrifice my Friday night for the sake of not being too hung over the next day.

Anyway, here's some pictures. On our last pool day I tried to take a bunch of candid photos of the kids, and I've been looking for a good time to put them up. I'm too lazy to bother with captions for them, though, but enjoy anyway.









July 23, 2009

Pool Day

I'm pretty sure everybody who reads this blog has been thinking "why is it taking so long to finally see some of the kids?" Well, for everyone who was thinking this, you're day has arrived. Wednesday this week was a pool day where we take all of the kindergarten kids, pack them into a few vans, and take them to a pool about 30km away on top of a hotel. It's really nice for the teachers because instead of having to yell "quiet" at loud kindergarten children every few minutes we just let them go at it.
Before they swim, they have to do a series of warm up exercises.
Now they line up around the pool and kick their legs.
This is Catherine coming down the water slide.
General mischief happening. Every kid has their own tube, which is nice.
After swimming we all sat down for lunch. These two boys from one of my classes are named Thomas and Gilbert.
This is Isabel. She is a sweet little girl but requires nonstop attention.
Joo and Joseph, who looks like he is up to something.
More of the boys from my class.
This girl is Euris, and I'm not really sure what is happening here. It is, however, hilarious.