New Semester

Last Thursday was the beginning of our new semester, which roughly coincides with our  students returning to their public schools from summer vacation.

It's a bit chaotic, as always, but definitely less so this year, as most of us (teachers) are keeping the same classes and--for the first time--the academy is no longer providing books.  Now, the parents have to acquire the textbooks on their own.

The good thing is that we do not have stacks upon stacks of books and cds.  The bad thing is that, on average, 2 students in each of my classes did not have their books for the first class.

Class sizes were smaller for most of July and August, as many students took a break.  Now I am back to full size (10 students) for many of my classes.

We have started teaching some new books to our middle school classes based on the new NEAT test that the Korean government is planning to use for university entrance exams.