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Summer and Winter Camps
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There are 2 major semester breaks in your school calendar. These occur at the same time the state schools have their holiday times. Because all the children will have a break for their state schools it is highly likely many of the children will go on holiday or go away to special learning/adventure camps. School directors never want to miss business during these times so they will invent anything possible to ?hook? the kids into coming to special summer schools at your own school or they will plan a trip away somewhere. The more wealthy of parents will even pay for overseas trips for the children to go to an English camp in Canada or USA etc. (normally a 3 week period) if your school is part of a major franchise the head office may sell an overseas camp to children from all the franchise schools. Obviously not all the students will be able to afford the trip and instead the director will operate a back up camp in Korea. You will suddenly find your daily timetable is totally shattered when this happens and the Director will give you a timetable that is ?horrendous?. You may even be told you are going away with the children for 2-4 days and you are in charge of the program. Of course you will say what do I do? What is expected? Where is the program overview? The obvious answer is always ?that is your job!? Instead of jumping up and down and complaining think of it as a learning adventure and go with the flow. In fact many of the teachers who have sought our advice at times like this have been amazed to find they had a great time and really felt they got to know their students out of class, as well as the Korean staff. When a Korean adult is away from the formal workplace they can be the happiest energetic funniest people to be with. Don?t look at the experience in a negative way, as you will most likely enjoy the "round the camp fire" sing-along times. World English Service received the following letter at our office after we had offered advice on a ?suddenly organised camp? to 2 of our placement teachers at the same school: ?Thanks so much for the game ideas. They were great; we ended up making fishing game up, which was very popular. We also played pass the parcel, with an English twist. We put English words in-between each layer of paper, and wee gifts. Also, played a 3 legged race game with two teams, each team had to get parts of a sentence at the end of hall and then bring it back to the team to make up. That was fun! Played charades as well. Which is always a good one. So it was successful, for the first time our bosses actually thanked us and said we did a good job. We were surprised. But it was a fun time, had a great time swimming with the kids on the first day! Had a campfire, even in the middle of summer they have campfires! Played dodge ball, and it was good to talk to the kids outside of class?. You also might be suddenly surprised though when the director suddenly says to you that the school is closed for the next 5 days because it is summer break. If you have not checked when this time was to happen then of course you will be annoyed because you won't have booked any holiday trip. Now you are finding out this is your paid holiday 5 days, when you would have loved to have a few days off in 2 months time to attend a friend's wedding in Thailand! The school director is totally within his rights to make these days your official holiday and you don?t have any right to demand another time. It makes sense that you get a holiday at the same time the school is closed does it not?
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