Another Weekend in Seoul

Tempus fugit.

I can't believe it. We've now officially been employees of SLP for one month. The August session is almost finished (one more week) and then we start the September session. Each session is four weeks long and all of the curriculum is centred around that four week period. The actual months and the sessions never quite line up so it can get confusing, but we're getting a handle on it.

Not too much is new. Work is going fairly smoothly. Paul and I are now trying to learn how to do report cards and phone teaching so we can finish up the session. I did my first batch of report cards yesterday and it was pretty easy. I love computers!! The whole system is computerized for the afternoon classes so basically you have to find you class, enter their marks, write a few comments, hit save and then you're done :)

Phone teaching is a whole new world of fun (do you sense my sarcasm??) Each month you are required to call you students at home and ask them five questions related to the topics you are discussing in class. Once you get them on the phone things go fairly smoothly, but the trick can be getting them on the phone. Nine times out of ten it is someone else who picks up the phone. And about 99% of the time that someone does not speak English. These two facts can sometimes make it difficult to get the kid on the phone, but heck, its fun trying!!

Oh I forgot to mention. As of yesterday we were no longer the newest teachers at the school. Lisa arrived from Nova Scotia Thursday night and her first day of work was Friday. I'm not sure when she will actually start teaching, but its nice not being the newest kid on the block anymore.

And one last note before I go. We finally got a webcam :) So we can now upgrade our voice chats on MSN to video chats! Woo Hoo.