Bad Day

Chloe: Had my first bad day today. I have two 1.5 hour classes at night, and for one of those classes the students don't like to use the book. Which means I have to spend all of my time making up lesson plans. I started the class with two awesome students who speak excellent english, and all of a sudden, my class expanded to seven, of differing levels. I spent 5 hours today creating what I thought would be an amazing lesson, which completely bombed in class. They were not interested, half of them didn't understand it, and they pretty much just refused to talk. Fantastic. I tried the book, I tried games, I tried thinking up interesting topics about their own lives to get them talking. Nothing. Oh, and one student thought it would be a good idea to explain that my backpack (a slim laptop backpack) was really unattractive and too big to be carrying around, unless I planned on going hiking. Koreans are really particular about fashion, even bags. No one carries around REAL backpacks, unless of course they are going hiking.