I was at GnB Baegma this morning, and at one point Tyler, the other foreign teacher, was describing something to me as he was preparing the classroom and I was leaving. One of the students just hit and slapped him (on the upper legs and lower stomach). He just winced, since his hands were full. He basically teaches the whole morning and part of the afternoon (until 2pm) then races to Hwajeong to teach from 3:30pm to 9pm. That's a heck of a long day. That's a killer. I could actually see that he has lost the joy of living to some extent.
At GnB Hwajeong the new textbooks still haven't arrived. It's a real...what's the word...indictment of a school if they don't even get organised to have textbooks for their students. I've been using storybooks and stuff but the rhythm that we'd developed, the momentum is gone. As most good, organised, efficient people know (and even ordinary people realise) patterns and rhythm and movement is important if you want a good process, and if you want to reach, well, fulfillment at the end of the day. Fits and starts is how you break a machine and demotivate people.
More on that later. Today is extremely sweaty once again in the classrooms. At the moment I feel like blasting my room door open and flinging myself on a bed. Maybe I'll sleep until 9am tomorrow if I do that. I feel like there is just SOOO much to do...
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