January Stress

The situation at work is getting worse. We had rehearsals for the presentation today. It didn't go well, and the infighting is now open among the Korean teachers. We really luck out not speaking korean a lot of the time. We don't have to infight, and we don't have to deal with the parents. However, even John, the calmest of the foreign teachers seems to be having some problems with management over this one. It just seems like nothing is planned, and they are pilling way too much onto the kids to learn this quickly. I wish we worked in a public school. They don't give a rat's ass about the parents. But we have to placate every stupid whim they have, even if the dumbest child in the class's mom wants them to star, ahead of several students who can actually speak.... Naming no names. "Oh, by the way, even though you're doing the Sound of Music, could Billy be a cowboy? And could he have a solo?" And then the lovely partner teacher calmly agrees to it!!!

Nobel is hopeless so far. They FINALLY have their scripts, after changing from sound of music, to aristocats, to jungle book. However, since we have to make it so long, I have my doubts that they will learn it properly, at least the weaker students. Beckham and Steven will be fine, but Jenny and Terry, I have my doubts about. Thank god Jessie/Grace Teacher is helping us, especially since Debbie has to help Kepler class now. She's definetely gettting stressed too.

We bought a DVD player but, we can't get it to work. We will have to enlist Unji or some other person wise to the ways of Korean to help us.

Oxford class was fine today, Polly was a bit more toned down than usual. That is to say, only 100 decibels.