English market day hell.

It kind of looks like I am in a cartoon, doesn't it? I am trying to sale this guy a potato.

This is my market where I sat for five hours completely unprepared.

This is Kelly's clothing store. 

My kid's monologue consisted of them buying two potatoes and a tomato. I would have gladly bought the real vegetables if I knew what was going on. Instead, I was supplied with half a plastic tomato and two plastic sweet potatoes that have seen better days.

Actually, all the plastic fruit on hand was quite expired. 

Oh, market day. Market day that I knew nothing about. As I believe I mentioned previously, I teach about seven regular classes a day and two after school classes. This market day was for my regular classes (my seventy, six years old and about twenty, five year old students). The market day is based on vegetable/fruit work books we do in class. However, I was never informed till the day before that I was suppose to be teaching them a monologue between a produce seller (me) and a customer (them). We went over the script several weeks ago, when we reached that page in the book. I had no idea that for the past month we were suppose to be role playing and learning the script from memory. The Korean teacher I work with wasn't informed either. However, Kelly who teaches the seven years old had been working on it with her students. Also, I don't even teach my five years old students with any notebooks. I see them twice a week and just work on speech with them. 

That is Yedea for you. Complete and total lack of organization. I didn't get in trouble or anything. I mean I couldn't. How was I suppose to know. Kelly didn't know any better to tell me. She didn't know we were preforming this on video tape with the children. However, I was very pleased with my kids being able to pull this out of the air with me. We practiced a few times before the camera was rolling. Other classes were able to pull it off a little bit more smoothly then others and of course the seven year old kids blew us out of the water. It was just completely frustrating because I don't want to appear as though I am not doing my job and I don't like my kids looking dumb. The Korean teachers that were also left out of the loop and were irritated as well.

I had one Korean teacher upset because she did not realize Kelly and I were sitting in a certain room waiting for the kids to come in and out. She asked us why we didn't tell her where we were. I was like I didn't even know what we were doing till 10:00 am this morning. We just assumed all the Korean teachers knew the deal. 

This wouldn't be such a big deal, but this stuff is pretty common at school. Next week is cooking week and I am still waiting on the details for that. I am sure I'll have some type of story to report.