Life of the Korean Kids
Just a quick update on what I've been doing these past days... I've been pretty busy teaching. One of our teachers went to Japan to get her Visa processed, meaning she would miss one day of school normally, but since Korea is cracking down on Immigration, there were a lot of people going to Japan for their Visas and her one day trip turned into two, so yesterday we all had to pull together and cover her shifts on our busy day of the week, so I got in to work at 11:00 in the morning, taught 3 kinders (a very exhausting endevor since they tend to treat me like a peice of playground equipment) and then left at 9:00 at night. It was a long shift.
A thing I have been thinking about is the difference between growing up in Canada and in Korea. Kids in Korea have normal school, then most have some form of English school, and then after that they might go to science academy, math academy, Chineese school, or something other of the sort and then go home and do their homework from each school. I was talking to a girl who was in grade 7 and I asked her what time she went to bed normally, she said it was around 12:30 every night and then she had to wake up at 7:00 to get ready for school. When I was in grade 7 my bedtime was most likely around 9:30 every night. Talk about a difference
posted by Dave @ 10:01 PM
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3 Comments:
It sounds like the Koreans really value education---much more than we do here! Maybe we could take a few lessons from them, and they should maybe let up a bit!
David, do you really want me to believe that you went to sleep at 9:30 each night?
Well, atleast that was the time I was sent to bed. Then there were the endless threats of taking away my reading lamp, the times I would sneak out to watch TV, listen to the Radio, etc... ;)
The confessions that come out when you are "grown up" and far away!!!!!
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