School

Our academy moved across the street to a much larger space this past week. Now the rooms are more spacious and sound-proof so we hear less high-pitched chantings of our phonics learners. Right now, we only have an after-school program but things are slowly falling into place and in the next year or so, plans are to establish an independant school for Koreans who want private education in English without leaving the country. This way, families do not have to be separated. We just need grounded teachers to jump-start this dream. I love that I work for an unconventional boss and can be part of teaching and learning that doesn't have to follow all the rules.

There's an opening for a part-time art teaching position at a different international school about 40 minutes from home. If I get the position, I may be teaching art to middle school students. I'd love that but I don't plan to stretch myself too thin...maybe I can go in 2 mornings a week, and get a taste of what it's like to be an art teacher in a school setting.

I love teaching my first-graders story-telling through Cray-pas and water-color. But I'm itching to do more than that...

I never thought I'd be teaching art to children, helping to establish a school, living in Korea, as well as considering settling down here, and loving it, what in the world? As they say, life never happens the way you plan.