Ranting Frustrations and Teaching Seasons & Weather (Gr 6: Ln 3.1:)

I felt like my co-teacher was doing a last-minute lesson plan "ditch" today; she had grand and creative schemes for lesson plans, but is now just concerned with following the textbook simply, so that she can get to her other more pressing work outside of class. Sometimes this annoys- I only have my 9 day EPIK orientation and when I contribute, I come up w/ Powerpoint presentations, innovative teaching methods and last-minute, on-the-spot modifications to sculpting lessons in a way I feel students can relate to. She, on the other hand, has more experience, government funded workshops abroad and a book full of "innovative" exercises she's learned, etc... that she's not implementing.  Still, when we get together to plan a lesson and she wants to hear my ideas, there are moments when my ideas get shot

10 Things I've Learned About Koreans from Watching K-dramas

Popular K-drama, Full House

In lieu of Valentine's Day, today's post is about the language of Sarang-he (Korean for "Love")! K-dramas have been the recent rage and drug popular that's been sweeping across the globe and hitting Asian countries and places like Hawaii. As mentioned, I've been trying to speed-learn Korean, so I've injected a healthy dose of Korean dramas into my diet and I've found myself, well,... a bit addicted to it too!

You can learn a lot about a country by watching their films and tv programs. I'm not saying everything you see on the tube will be true or accurate, but you get a general impression- good, bad or weird- of