Even though it is winter vacation (it started on January 1st), I am still teaching classes. This is because Korea has a thing called camp. Essentially the students come to school during vacation (all vacations: summer, and winter) to take extra classes. Usually these are the classes they are having trouble with but sometimes it is the classes that they like. For instance, the students in my winter camp are in my class because they enjoy English.
The length of the winter camp varies by school as well. My school has a 3 week long winter camp, with 2 hours per subject. Some schools go for a week with 8 hour long days. It is crazy and varied.
Sometimes these camps have a set schedule that the NET (Native English Teacher) must teach. However, I am not one of those types of camps. I got to pick what I would cover and how I would divide the class. I wanted it to be a fun class, with the students learning but doing fun things at the same time. So I decided to do a Music themed camp. We are going to make music videos and do a lot of other stuff related to music. I am looking forward to these videos and to the rest of camp.
Today was the first day of Winter Camp and it seemed to go over well. We formed our "bands" today and did some basic introductions, since I have both first and second years in my class (not everyone knew each other). Hopefully it continues to go well and the music videos come out awesome.
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