Check out a few of my good classes!

So I thought it would be cool to show everyone my students here are 5 of my classes which I enjoy teaching.
Here is one of my very gifted classes. They are 10 years old and have a very high English level and use the highest level book I teach.
English Names (left to right): Julie, Alice, Martin, Denny, Chris, Andrew, Joelle (who is also my director's daugter)

 Here is a class that their English class isn't so high, but I have fun in the class and the kids seem to enjoy my class. They are also about 10-11 years old. I have them obsessed with reading with a lot of emotion when they see an exclamation point. They find it hilarious.
English names (left to right): Thomas, Jack, John, Sky, Lily, James, Jeff, Sally, Sophia, Gloria

 Here us a class that I like the students, but sometimes the girls are so difficult to teach.  Celina and Cena randomly start singing and are always being ridiculous.  But on its good days this class is awesome and they are fun to talk to. They are about 12-13 years old.
English names (right to left): Celina, Anna (in front), Cena (in back), Angella, and Robbin (he is so awesome, one of my favorite students).

 This class is 14-15 year old students and is my favorite class to teach.  They have the highest level of English and are able to have conversations about more relevant topics that the boring stories in the book.  We have a good time and often just spend classes talking about a topic for the whole time and not use a book. I often feel bad for the one boy in this class because I know he gets picked on a lot, but he is a strange guy.  I am always nice to him and have lots of conversations before and after class with him.  But one time I asked him what music he liked. He told me rock and pork. I said to him pork is a meat. He simply replied, ya I know and then walked away.  Pretty hilarious.
English names (left to right): Jason, Lina, Lucy, Kathy, Sandy. And there is a girl ducking down in the back and I just call her ms. smartphone.

 This last class is one of my later classes where the students are 13 years old.  They can be a chore to teach because the class is so small they go through everything fast and we often move too quickly in the books.  The boys are crazy. Every time they see me they say, "LETS PLAY GAME!!" and they always have weird conversations with me and stalk me when i teach other classes like jumping so they can see into the window of my other class.  They are still a pretty fun class to teach though.

I have quite a few other classes, but they are just not as cool as these ones.

Little update

So life has been good in Korea.  I am definitely settled in just in the groove.  I have been having some fun weekends with friends.  We have been hanging out at my apartment a lot since it is probably the biggest place of all the teachers I know in Ulsan.  Other than that been enjoying nice dinners out with friends, going to the beach and lighting off fireworks and having random adventures.  A friend had a motor scooter which she was not using.  It ended up breaking down and was taken to a shop.  She said she didnt want it anymore.  I offered to buy it from her, but she didnt care about the money, she just told me to pay the mechanic to fix it and I could have it.  For the last month the mechanic said it was "lost"... So we had basically given up on it thinking he had sold it for parts or something... Somehow he all of a suddent comes up with it waives almost all the fees to tow and fix it and now i have a new scooter which only cost me 20,000won (or about $20).
Here's the beast!

Also here is a picture of the front of my hagwon, Saint Andrew, that I teach at. I also live on the top floor....

This is a crazy teaching week for me.  I have open class for my kindergarteners, which means their parents come to the school and watch my classes.  The directors are also filming me to make a video to basically advertise that they have a foreign teacher and our classes are awesome.  It was a bit stressful, but it went very well. Anyway, hope I have some good adventures soon to share. Cheers.

Halloween weekend

What a crazy weekend.  First, Friday was just a wild day at the school.  I was told to start my day at noon which is 50 minutes earlier than normal. Which was no problem, but then I get a call from one of the other teachers at about 11:40AM telling me I am late. Which from what I knew about when I was supposed to be at work that wasn't true.. Anyways, we were celebrating Halloween with the kindergarten classes and had to dress up.  So i bought the cheapest stuff I could find which ended up being an eye patch and crappy pirate hat.  worked out fine.  All the kids dressed up and we took them out around our area walking and singing Halloween songs in our costumes.  Then we ended up at the park where each of the teachers were on the corners holding bags of candy and the kids would trick or treat and get candy from us.
Here is an awesome picture which is also extremely funny in front of the school:

Friday night was awesome. went to my friend shaun's dad's new bar called pub hq.  The best part was that I was on my bar A game and won 3 games of darts and a game of pool! what a night! 

On Saturday I took a train with 12 other foreign teachers to Busan to watch one of the biggest fireworks shows in the world.  It is such a big event when you go you have to go stay on the beach all day to stake out a spot.  We got to the beach at around 2pm and the place was already getting extremely busy.  The show didn't start until 8pm.  So we waiting on the beach all day, which ended up being a fun time.  Unfortunately it started to rain around 7pm, so we were waiting on the beach in the rain for another hour to watch an hour long fireworks show in the rain too! it was a bit crazy doing that, but it was well worth it.  That was easily the best fireworks show I have ever seen.  People really need to take notes for the 4th of July hahaha.  That night we went out to a couple bars in Busan which was a good time. And there were plenty of foreigners out which is really fun.  I ended p sleeping on the wooden floor in a hotel room some of the other people in my group rented.  That was awesomely painful, but a lot better than sleeping outside in the rain.  Great weekend though, and met a few really cool people who I will continue to hang out with. Gotta love making new friends.