At School with a Little Bit of Time to Spare

The school year is winding down in Korea.  I thought this would be a good time to do a little writing.  In Korea, the scholastic year is quite different from Canada.  It begins in March, and the students go to school on Saturdays twice a month.  They get a six week summer break, and after writing final exams in December there’s another  7~8 week break in the  winter.   The schools open up for a week of regular schedules in early Feburary, and then classes stop again until the new year starts in March.

During the breaks the students can attend extra classes, and special education camps.  These are the what I call ‘unvacation classes’.  Some students attend these while others go to hagwons (Korean private non-accreditted education Academies).    I finished my own camp stuff a while ago and for the most part, it went pretty well.  With my classes for this school year all but finished, these days I’m spending my time in work doing a little lesson planning, a little Korean language study, and just being thankful to have it so good.