Winter Camp

As I enter the last day of my three week long Winter Camp experience, I'm left with an immense feeling of relief. I'm ready for a break from teaching. I get two glorious weeks off before I have to go back to school to lightly teach for a few weeks. This is followed by another break before the new school year begins.
Each week of Winter Camp involved an entirely new group of kids. I had 4th graders the first week, 5th/6th the second week, and 3rd graders the last week. All of my classes had less than 20 kids in it - a welcomed relief from the 35-40 we normally have per class. I taught from 9-12 each day of the week. Now...with that said and done...
 The first week I followed my plans. I had several fun activities planned such as creating your own board game, watching funny videos, and having a general grand ol' time.

 If you read my previous post about Free Hugs then you know that I had some of my kids create some Free Hug posters for me. This is one of my students holding up her poster for me to take a picture. She's adorable.

 More of my adorable little students. They all got to create their own board games. The girl in the middle helped me everyday of winter camp. Sue-chan, she's such a sweet heart.

 The second week of winter camp, I got bored with the usual lessons and decided to do something different. After speaking to another English teacher (Jameson!) who did this same activity with his students - I thought it'd be worth a try. I remember doing egg drops in my elementary school and it was always great fun. So all the students created their own egg capsules. Out of five groups - only one egg broke. Granted I could only get up to the second floor due to locked doors...but still!

 My last week of classes. This was taken on the last day of class - thankfully! Ugh. I love teaching but by the end of three weeks of teaching half days...I was tired of having to get up and drag myself to class for three hours. It was fun though.

The girls did a great job on their board game - everyone did a Monopoly style game board even though I showed them different board types they could use. Koreans lack a certain amount of creativity...at least, in my experience. It's hard to get them to do anything creative - like pulling teeth out of the mouth of a T-Rex.

This is completely unrelated to Winter Camp, however something I am proud of. I made dinner! I cut up all the farm fresh veggies and made a delicious pot of soup. Nothing caught on fire, I didn't cut or burn myself, and the food was edible. Round of applause for me? ^_^