Saying Goodbyes (School edition)

My last day at my school is on the 25th. So in typical Korean fashion I decided to get parting gifts for every teacher/administrator/staff in the school. There is a version of pocky in Korea called pepero. I gave all the teachers a box of that, and for my co-teachers I got them an extra big box along with a personalized letter. All in all it came to about 80 000W, which is about 1 days salary. But things like this should be done since the school has been so nice to me and its just common sense manners or 만나 as they call it in Korean (I hope I wrote that right)

Everyone was really happy and I think it raised my karma points by a lot. The next foreigner teacher will have the bar set high for him lols.



As for my students, last week in class I did a lesson plan explaining to them what I was going to be doing after Korea and why I was leaving. They had a worksheet which was a fill in the blanks exercise for a letter I wrote to them. Afterwards I had the high level classes write a letter to me since there was still time left. I had some really funny and touching ones which I stored all in a binder for souvenir. And some of them even made colorful letters in their spare time outside of class. I posted some of the letters down below.

In addition to the letters, this week I had a speaking test with all my classes and took individual pictures of my favorite students. So now I have like 200 pictures of middle school boys and girls stored on my computer. I really hope no one take this out of context lols. And I filmed some of my students as they did the test because they were so damn funny, here is the link:


Next week will be my official last week and the teachers who share my cubicle section is apparently planning a little farewell party for me :D More updates to come.

And it turned out I bought too much pepero so I gave some to my favorite students as well.

Update October 29th:

Here is the video of the cubicle party put on by my co-workers:

Here is the video of the party put on by my summer school/conversational class students:
They made a cake just for me with an edible picture of our summer class, and it was amazing!

The last period of the last day of my classes on the 25th, I had high level girl students. At the end of the class they started to sing a goodbye Korean song for me, I took out the camera too late and only got part of it but it was really touching and amazing, I am going to miss there little nigglets.

Here is the video of the girls singing:

Two of the trouble makers of the school cooked some traditional korean pancake and brought it to the teachers room, here is a video of them explaining it to me in English. They are so funny:

Peace