Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Too early to go to sleep ...

so I thought that I should update. Well, I have have finally passed the 8 month mark and it is now less than 4 months until I go home, yey! Also, finally got the dated payslips that I will probably need to hand over to the tax department when I go home, before they will give me student allowance. Is a double bonus too, as they are signed by the director and specificly state the date I started work, well actually Chelsy screwed up and the state that I started a day earlier than I actually did, so I should be able to leave a day earlier than I thought I would, bonus!
Also found out that I don,t need to worry about my drivers licence expiring while I'm away either, as I will be returning home withing 12 months of the expiry date, and I won't cost me anything extra to renew it when I get home, another bonus, saves a lot of hassle!
Had the first of my open classes with the parents watching me teach today, went better than I thought it would, apparently the parents were impressed, even managed to get the kids speaking English, almost the entire time, it probably helped that I bribed them with candy. I plan to do the same tomorrow when I have the open class for my 6 year olds.
Unfortunately we're having an intensive English course for some of our hogwan students, which means I shall no longer be getting breaks in the middle of the day, which would mean working straight through without a break from 10 till either 8 or 6.30. I pointed out that if they wanted me to do this then I didn't want to serve the kids lunch, I wanted to have a break then, as it is not fair to have no break at all, especially since I don't eat with the kids, well most of the time it's really spicy, and that is bad. Chelsy said she does it everyday, I didn't like to point out that she doesn't, as on tuesdays and thursdays she only teaches kindergarten, and she only teachs 4 hogwan classes on the other days, also she won't even be one of the teacher teaching the summer course, it will be scott, and either Karen or Rachel and I. At least it will only be for a month and we will get paid overtime for it, as Scott and I already teach more than our contracted 120 hours a month.
In other news, am going to Taiwan next week, yey!
AND IT IS NOW ONLY 121 DAYS UNTIL I GO HOME!

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