Last week, I got information on where I’ll be teaching in Korea. It’ll be in a city called Suwon in a middle school (the link is sorta useless because the site is all in Korean).
The man in charge of English teachers at the school sent me an email and he tells me this:
“I am not good at speaking English, however if you work together in our school , let you feel comfortable. I want to know all of you. During working together, we will do our best.”
I find this comforting because my future boss seems to be super friendly and I won’t come off as super boring since he’s already interested in me. Two of my big worries alleviated in one email.
The only bad thing is that the program coordinators for my program (GEPIK) were away on some conference in the States for a little while, so everything is backlogged. I may not get there until mid-September as opposed to my anticipated end of August departure. I should know more shortly.
Hey,
I have recently been recruited and offered a job through a recruiter to work in the GEPIK program. As you are probably aware, there are sooo many negative blobs/postings about teaching in Korea and also teaching for GEPIK. How has your experience been so far? Sounds like you haven’t started yet. I haven’t accepted the position yet, I’m still debating because I don’t want to get screwed over.
Thanks
I haven’t started yet, but it’s in the works. I can’t really give you much advice at this point. Sorry. Hopefully I’ll be heading over there in 3-ish weeks though. You should give it a try man, the experience alone will be worth it!
Let me know what you decide to do!
Yeah, you are right…I know it would be an awesome experience! They told me it would take 6-7 weeks to get all my paperwork, etc processed, and I haven’t even taken the job yet, so I’m probably looking at 2 months from now before I even go! Do you know where you will be, working with yet?
Duh, you say where you will be in your initial post…. 🙂 Yeah, I’ll let you know what I decide