An early start, my roommate and I got up around 6:45am, on a Sunday! Wasn't too happy about that. breakfast was 7:30am-8:30am, so we got there rather earlier. I also managed to steal some bananas for snacks later. We had 5 classes throughout the day, each about an hour and ten minutes. The topics were interesting enough to keep me entertained.

First we talked about lesson plans, why we make them and what purpose they serve. We were assigned groups earlier, and we have to give a mock class in front of other people, so we used this time to brainstorm about our lesson plan.

The next session was about project based learning, which I found really interesting, but I can't really do in my class. I realized that there is an extremely wide range of teaching responsibilities throughout different schools. Some teachers have to make daily lesson plans and not deviate from them, while some don't do them at all. Some have to follow the books and only the books, while others aren't even given a book, some co-teachers are a big help in the classroom while some sit in the back and do nothing. So these presentations were a bit difficult, because they don't fit for everyone. In my case, I could maybe use a few ideas, and adapt them, but others couldn't use the information at all. Anyway, the project based learning was about have the students be at the center, and working together to create an idea, and it's their responsibility to follow through with the project and to educate themselves further.

Next class was about different intelligences, such as bodily-kinaesthetics, linguistic, musical, inter/intrapersonal. The lecturer then had us go through a series of activities and games and play them ourselves, then talk about what intelligence they teach. i got some really good ideas of activities to do in class, plus we all added bits to improve them in certain situations.

After that it was a much needed lunch break at 1:10pm. I basically scarfed my lunch down and left. I had an hour until class so I went for a walk and found a shop to buy some fruit. I went back to the dorm for a little before returning to class at 2:30pm. We had a class about Classroom Management, which had some interesting aspects, but I feel like the lecturer went off on a few too many tangents. He was a nice enough guy though, tried to preach a little Jesus love on us, which I wasn't too found of, but he was entertaining.

The last class of the day was about elementary school curriculum. I found out that some elementary schools don't teach English to their students at all, which would explain why many of my new first grade students can't do anything in class. Again, the lesson had a few high lights, and it gave me some good ideas for the classroom, but it was geared for elementary school. I believe the course on middle school will be tomorrow.

So all that's left for the day is the Korean class I have in 20 minutes. All in all the first day was good. By the end I get a little restless and bored, but that's because  I haven't had six hours of lectures a day since I was in college.