School and such

Well once again it has been awhile since I updated my blog. I'm sure you can tell I am getting out more often and enjoying myself by the lack of updating! To catch you up my preschoolers are still doing awesome! They think I'm hilarious and I often feel like my job is being a clown. I teach 2 different preschool classrooms. I teach my homeroom class for 3 periods of the day and a co-class for 2 periods of the day. I LOVE my homeroom class. They are so well behaved and quiet but talk when you ask them to. They have recently picked up a new name for me and I'm not quite sure where it came from but it is definitely sticking with them and they crack themselves up calling me it. I walk in and they should HAMBURGER TEACHER!!!!! I love those little rascals so they can call me whatever they like. My co-class on the other hand are a bunch of wild hooligans! They jump out of their seat, constantly talk Korean (which scares me because I have no clue what they are saying) and they just don't listen. I did cut them a little slack with it being the first two weeks but strict Lisa Teacher is coming out next week. Also one thing that I have had to adjust to is I'm not called Miss. Schwenk or Miss. Lisa. In Korea they call you by your first name and then teacher so as you could probably figure out on your own I am Lisa Teacher or a lot of the time it is TTTEEEEEAAAACCCCHHHHAAAAAA as they would say. A lot of their speaking is drawn out and ends with and -uh sound. Today we went on a field trip to a Children's museum, which was awesome for the kids and for me! We watched a video and then went on 2 floors of what I called organized chaos. They kids just got to run around and do crazy things like play with water build little houses shoot plastic balls at each other and a lot of other stuff (hard to explain but I will be posting pictures). We all had a blast but it was a very tiring day! I could go on forever about my little munchkins but now I will move onto the elementary kids. They also crack me up but in different ways. I know it is bad to make fun of them because they are trying really hard to learn English but every week we do vocabulary sheets with the stories we read in class and the sentences they make with the words are quite humorous to say the least. The word was plastered last week and I had one sentence that said my dad plastered my mom. I had another that said my dad was plastered. These are just 2 of them but I literally laugh out loud grading these papers! Also we have what are called writing topic books where they have a topic to write about and I correct their paragraphs then they write their final draft. Long story short this girl was writing about how she liked to go swimming but she preferred "deep pool" because in the little pool there were too many people babies (as opposed to monkey babies of course)! Sometimes I don't even know where to begin on grading these because if I graded like back home I would completely butcher their work and leave them feeling humiliated. Well I got observed by my supervisor in my Pre-k class and my elementary classes. The observation as a whole went really well and he was impressed. The biggest thing I need to work on is slowing down my talking and dumbing down my vocabulary, which I knew I did, but he also said I need to work on cutting yall out of my vocabulary. I guess I do have a southern drawl after all. I told him this would probably be the toughest thing to try and change because it is so common in my speaking, so I'm trying to speak PROPER English so I do not teach these kids SOUTHERN English. Wow, here I go writing a book and this is only about school! I guess this really shows how long it has been since updating. Well last weekend was St. Patrick's day so Molly and I decided we had to be Irish for the day and celebrate. We got a group together and went to an Irish festival (who knew there would be one in Korea) but there was Irish music and the most "foreigners" I have seen since I have been here. Well anyway this is enough for now I'm sure I'm rambling on now! Until next time peace from the far east!