WEL

Here are a few photos from a night out we had with our coworkers. Our school (ECC, which had previously merged with Lyceum) merged in July with another hogwan (Wonderland) to become WEL, originally we were WELP, when it was still a "project" but they've settled on that as a name.

Chris, me, Grace, Ann and Laila

Me trying (and failing) to take a photo like a

Korean with Grace

Conrad, Carp, Sara and Janice

The merge so far has been fine, our new coworkers are fine, but the schools have been running as if they were two just in the one campus for two months. Next month we become one more officially, with the students being given a test to find their levels so they can be blended together, new books etc. At the moment it's very uncertain how this will pan out as we're not told anything (there is a hierarchy with these things, and native teachers are at the bottom of the pile) and we're all very worried at the extra work this is going to give us, particularly because we're already very busy, and we're losing Conrad and a Korean teacher at the same time.

On an UPSIDE, we're also losing Jeff, also known as the devil child in our kinder school. He's just a little upstart who thinks he is above the rules set for all others. He has serious psychological problems and is aggressive and rude, always hitting his classmates, often for no good reason. He and I have never seen eye to eye, and lately he's taken to scowling and seething whenever he's near me, as he spits "Sophie teacher BAD teacher" at me. Oh yeah, and he also hit, punched, kicked and BIT me for simply trying to get him INTO class so he could avoid doing the work/rip out the pages of his book/break all my pencils/cheat off his classmates. The entire school, I think, is rejoycing in the fact that as of Friday he'll no longer be at our school. Thank goodness!