A DAY IN THE LIFE // English teacher in South Korea (EPIK)

good morning and welcome back to my channel this is a day in my life as a teacher in Korea [Music] my way to school so I'll be gone outside a little bit gray but it's supposed to rain so I'm actually glad it's just not raining but as you can see I'm already out of breath because I have a little bit of a walk uphill whenever I go to school it's about ten minutes but you know hey Mike are you in early in the day so it's not too bad not too bad I've been doing this two and a half years now so I've got nice trim well yeah I'll show you a little bit up the neighborhood as I walk up to school [Music] everything he's so nice he says good morning morning every day yeah alright so we're gonna go ahead and head in to the office probably say more of my school later this usually I'm the first one here so I kind of like to get an early start we're supposed to be here at 8:00 I usually get in run 8:20 not just get my bearings so here's my office I share with the other English teachers and home economics teacher at my school I guess first I'll give you a quick tour of my desk so here I just have my notebook I use when planning classes some class materials I'll be using in my upcoming lessons my fifth and sixth grade English textbooks and then some other worksheets and things I've accumulated over the past few years then above my desk here is my class schedule so like I mentioned I teach fifth and sixth grade for a total of 22 classes per week which is standard for an epic teacher and you can kind of see how my class schedule is laid out here I teach sixth grade three days per week and fifth grade too so the first thing I do once arriving at school is changing to my school slippers which are basically just another pair of shoes you have designate to wear only in school then I have about ten minutes to prepare for the day before I head upstairs and set up for my first class [Music] so this is one of the English classrooms at my school where I teach my sixth graders the other one is actually on the first floor right by my office and that's where I teach my fifth graders once here I usually have about five to ten minutes to set up for the lesson before class starts at 8:50 this is my co-teacher miss.jeong I teach sixth grade with her so we teach every Monday and Thursday together [Music] so a typical English class at my school is usually divided into two parts in the first half of the class we usually teach out the textbook and in the second half we do a game or activity with the student for further practice of the vocabulary and key expression right so now we have a ten minute break between our classes where it gets to decompress from the class that we just had we really like Thursdays because we only have four classes today and we finished up all the for lunch so basically we get everything done and then we can just chill and relax the rest of the day and prepare for the rest of the week oh other classes here [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] finally finish class it is lunch time that's where we're going now and that's why you're already lunch is definitely one of my favorite parts of the day it takes place in our school cafeteria and it usually consists of rice some type of meat a side dish kimchi radish soup and a dessert lunch is also super cheap here it costs about $2 per meal and the sum is taken out of my monthly paycheck [Music] [Music] so after coming back from lunch this is time to usually just chill out relax sometimes I have one class after lefse starts at 1:00 but usually on I think Wednesdays and Thursdays I'm finished with classes at least my main classes I should say so basically the rest of the day is just used for lesson planning to get ready for possible future I like to plan ahead so I usually plan maybe two or three weeks in advance and if I have some extra time that's probably when I'm designing something new PowerPoint game because that's how I stay creative here I actually have a teacher's class that I teach in a couple hours so I'm gonna be getting ready for that and then I'm finished for the day so [Music] which is not really part of my schedule there's a teacher's class I signed up to teach this semester for the extra cash my usual schedule is just only teaching fifth and sixth grade students by having this ministry class I teach Tuesday in the Thursday at the end of the day about an hour two hours depending on the day anyway I just teach them teachers that my skills in English so I really enjoy there's a lot of fun I should I go inside and setting up rather big lesson plan for them today it's a big review lesson and really travel English so I gotta move tasks prepare the stuff and do all that so go ahead and go [Music] what did the euro trip me [Music] Europe yeah so it's written to Europe we're going to see a trip to Europe and on this trip we are going to review a lot of the things be able to learn in this class so we will start with the first one and I'll go through each and explain I finally finished I actually finished a little early which was nice sexy but tough you're a little my doubts I thought a little bag by overall such a [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] great I'm really good in this drug comes over done for the day I'm gonna head back to the office and just kind of finish up things before anyone but number rest guys so I'll it touch it back between once I had this cool [Music] what a day what a day and with that school is over I think trying to record it off it's made me more tired it was a lot but no it was a good day this is so nice see all machines smiling faces they were so excited when I had the camera out oh they're so cute so after school I usually grab some dinner before heading home today I'm stopping by my favorite Korean noodle spot in my neighborhood called noodle house I love getting the soups here but my absolute favorite one is called kalguksu it has noodles vegetables potatoes seaweed and sesame seeds in it and is perfect for a cold day like this so ends my day I hope you guys enjoyed coming along with me for my day to day see how my school life is here in Korea I honestly enjoy this job so much no there you have my rough day is not gonna live but you know these kids sometimes this make it worth it but yeah I hope you guys have an amazing wonderful rest of your day and I will see you next time [Music] you

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Id: bBiTR_enpwY

Length: 15min 35sec (935 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 27 2020