kid pictures!!

i leave for thailand on tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!! can't wait. rod and i are going to bangkok for a day & a night, and then it's off to karon beach on phuket for a week. we're staying here on karon beach. SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!


photos of intensives students. they've all been fun, even if my first class drives me bonkers with blank stares and joe in my last class is a little challenging. basic 5 kids are 10 years korean age, 9 years US age; senior 3 are 12-13 korean age; and senior 4 are 12-16 korean age. :)


peace, love, and bella:



eric and his tonsils:



mark with bunny ears a la eric:



mark and a shirt he made in science class at school:



peace out, eric:



basic 5, playin' a game:



senior 3, sonya and laura, studying for the vocab test:



senior 3 joe, a handful and more active than a barrel full of radioactive monkeys:



senior 4, kate, staying late after class to study:

damn, i need a vacation

and i'm going to thailand in 8 days. can't wait. holy #*$&%(#*&@.

work sucks right now. we're in intensives, so we're on the 8:30 am to 8:00 pm schedule - 9 hours of teaching and 2 hours for prep and lunch. i have two senior classes primarily made up of kids who have a hard time writing in english. i got so spoiled my last four months of teaching, because 80 percent of my students in my senior level classes were great writers with minimal grammar mistakes who always understood what i was saying. now i've got two classes with maybe 10 percent decent writers and a good 50 percent who can't write a complete sentence.

crabby. frustrated. class is okay, but i miss my old students.

time for sleep. a less crabby missive next time.