Update: School Year, back from Malaysia

Less than 24 hours since getting off the plane from KL I'm back at school. New schedule, new co-teachers and four dudes in the specialist room (it's never been more than two). I'm pretty excited, but also very tired from over thinking and planning. I read an article about how to be proactive at work and came in today thinking I was gonna grab my job by the balls and be on top of my game before lunch. Of course that didn't really happen but I'll give myself until the end of the week to get everything in order.

I was the first one in the office and opened up the windows to air the room out. Busan is beginning to feel like spring. Surprisingly, my computer has been rebooted (thank goodness for back-ups) and stripped to the bones so I needed to download Chrome, then transfer all my PPTs and work sheets. I went downstairs to the English Library to find that some binders have been filled with standard ESL Reading Comprehension worksheets. That's one less thing I have to do this week. 

I go my course schedule and I'm starting the year off with Grade 3s and 5s. My after school programs are similar but my head teacher wants them to be geared towards speaking as opposed to reading and writing. I also have a drama club that I'm co-teaching which I'm excited and incredibly petrified of because I have the reigns and zero guidelines. The year's shaping up to be an interesting one I'm just not sure whether or not it's going to be a semester that encourages me to stay another year. I'm feeling ready for the week despite not really getting a solid recharge from my vacation. 

Malaysia was a cool place, I just wish I had contributed to planning the trip. I felt I didn't get to settle/explore the areas and "experience" Malaysia as much as I wanted to, but I'm planning on posting everything I wrote down by the end of the week. One factor out of my control is I took pictures until my battery died which was on Monday; so I'll be stealing photos from my friends but I'd probably do that anyway: they've got better cameras, itchy fingers, and talent taking photos. 

 

Here's to another semester!