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Mostly teenagers
but whatever
keeps me rememberin'
keeps it green
2003-03-26 - 1:26 p.m.
I've been carrying a small notebook and making notes in my spare time, but haven't had enough online time to transcribe them. Will try to get them entered over the next few days, when I can.
The good news is that I'm busy nearly full-time with jobs at three different places,- The Charity Place, The City Office, and the Hogwon. The charity place is where I teach a class of adults in the morning for an hour and a half twice a week (they were all women until today, so I call them my "Moms' Class").
I run from there to the Kindergarten run by the same charity in a different building. Here I have a flock of five-year-olds and 26 happy students of ages 6 and 7. This is also twice a week for 15 minutes with each group. I often have lunch with the staff here. The school has a contract with an excellent local restaurant to produce yummy meals.
The bad news is that the commute [1.5 to 1.8 hrs each way] is beginning to wear me down. I'm putting out the word through my students that I need an apartment in Ha-am-dong.
Today, one of my former students saw me scuttling to the kindergarten and we had a brief, but good, talk. She has a little toddler, and can't make it to the morning class, for the lack of a sitter. She'd love to have a class in the evenings. She thinks that there are other women who would be interested, too. I told her I'd be glad to teach another hour or so a day if I could cut out the commute and move to Ha-Am-Dong.
Mondays the socalled Brats have two hours of my time over at the Gwangmyeong-2dong office. They are as dreadful to Cho on Thursdays as they are to me on Mondays, so I don't feel singled out.
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, I'm at Gina's hogwon, roughly from three to nine p.m., teaching about 11-12 hours a week to older elementary and middle-school kids.
I'm in the Charity Place's free computer room. Normally, I make my papers for the students here. Today the Word program went wonky and refused to let me use the Comic Sans script to make my penmanship papers. Bah, Humbug!
Now, I must run off to Gina's and teach my little cuties.
Happy Trails!
~ Sil in Corea
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