Friday, March 27, 2009

Labels - Round 2

I had the most annoying day yesterday. I woke up with no electricity (although it turned out to just be a warning that I need to buy more), I had to sit through a meeting entirely in Korean - giant waste of time, and I had Newspaper Club in the afternoon. I would like newspaper if any of the students in the club would actually write anything. One of them doesn't even speak English. I think the goal is going to be to motivate them to do something and then work on putting together a newspaper.

However, the most annoying part of my day was in the morning. I come into work and my boss hands me a file of my lesson plans and tell me to fix them. Apparently I had forgotten to put dates on some of them. Fine. I fix them and put them on her desk. She was extremely busy so I just put them on the pile with everyone else's lesson plans. Little did I know this was going to cause big issues. I then spent the rest of the day getting lectured about how rude I am and how we are not friends and that in Korean culture you have to be extremely respectful of your elders and I should have said, 'excuse me ann, here are the lesson plans you asked me to do, can I do anything else.' I have no problem being that polite if I had known that it was necessary but an entire morning of lectures about it??? Reminds me of the week at DB I was lectured about labels. Yes, labels.

2 comments:

Missy said...

OH GOD, TERRIBLE FLASHBACK TO THE LABELS!

Dad said...

so if she's so good at lesson plans, how come they have to import their teachers from the U.S.?