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Martina’s Super Old Dance Festival Footage

Footage from Martina’s School Festival, where she dances to Rain, Big Bang, Wondergirls, and Lee Hyori.

Bucheon Girls’ High School

Martina just finished her last day of teaching in Korea. Here’s the video she made of the memories she had.

Korean School Festivals

Remember that behind the scenes footage we did on our episode of Running Man, where Nichkhun gives Martina’s students a shout out? That was meant [...]

Korean Exam Day

This November 18th was one of the most important days in the life of a Korean high school student: Korean Exam Day. High school students [...]

Why I Love Teaching

Believe it or not, but we love teaching. Love it. Teaching in Korea isn’t just a job for us. It’s our careers, and it’s something [...]

Teaching English in Korean Middle Schools: Bingo

Now that March is around the new school year has started, and with it has come a lot of new English Conversation Teachers. Hopefully you’ve [...]

Teaching English in Korean Middle Schools Guess Who

Next week we’re going to be giving another presentation for the Gepik Orientation, so here’s a video in the spirit of helping teachers. Here’s another [...]

Teaching English in Korean Middle Schools â€“ Battleship

We have received a lot of questions about teaching English in public schools. If we don’t speak Korean, how do we communicate with our students? [...]

Korean Trick or Treating

Halloween is not celebrated here in Bucheon or the rest of Korea, so I – Simon – tried to teach my middle school students about [...]

Korean Fitness Tests

This Friday I – Martina – had no classes because it was Fitness Test Day in Bucheon All Girls’ High School. I wasn’t sure what [...]

Bucheon High School Festival

The day after we sang our hearts out in a Bucheon No-Rae-Bang was a Saturday, which, as you may recall, means fun times around Bucheon [...]

Simon’s Summer School

On Tuesday I – Simon – finished teaching my last day of Summer School. Now I just sit in the office from 8:30-4:30, doing nothing. [...]

Supercool Phone

This is a student in Simon’s Extra classes. He’s in this class for no good reason. The class is full of students with very weak [...]

Class Control

I had to take a movie of this, even though itâ€™s not that exciting. I have a class of students who are rowdy as all [...]

Simon’s New Office

Today started off pretty poorly for me. To begin with, I forgot my Starbucks Double Shots at home. I usually pack two in my bag [...]

The School System

Today is the first of three days that I (Simon) have to spend in an empty school. The entire school is away on a three-day [...]

Our First Day of School

So hereâ€™s the update from the first day of school. To begin with, we are very tired right now, and we want to go to [...]

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