English Summer Camp – Week 1

For the first week of the English Summer Camp, I wanted to make sure the students were engaged, willing to participate in various activities and most importantly felt comfortable in the working environment. I believe I have established that with activities such as: self-portrait drawings, painting of butterfly using out foot and hand prints, hiking, creating a decorative frame using flowers, and playing soccer. There were other fun activities that I was able to organize for the six students who decided to join the summer camp. Yes, the number of students is quite low because the students were not aware of my arrival prior to the students making other commitments and vacation plans. I don’t blame them considering I only showed up to Busan June 25th and by then the students were already looking forward to spending time at the beach or going to other countries with their families.
On Wednesday, the weather was very bad in Busan and in all of South Korea as well. None of the students showed up for the summer camp but good they didn’t because it was raining all day. The skies were dark and the rain just kept pouring and pouring. Fortunately I was able to leave school early to go to the bank and pay my bills at KEB.

Pictures will be posted later when I get them from Ye Jin.
On Thursday, Victoria, Nav and I wanted to go see a musical called, “JUMP!” but it was not playing anymore in Busan. The website we used to find this information must have been outdated because we spoke to the facility managers and they said that the musical has been moved to Seoul since March. I am not really into musicals but this particular one has martial arts and comedy. Oh well, we still managed to have an amazing evening and the photos are the evidence to our fun get together.

Nav and I competing to see who gets the most points in throwing a baseball.
Speed and accuracy were important. I destroyed Nav 2950pts to 1250pts.
Highest speed for me was 111km/h (which is equivalent to 68.97mph).
Not bad considering what I was wearing.
Oh, the prize (small dolphin keychain) for getting 2950pts, I gave to Victoria as a gift.

More pictures will be posted when I get them from Victoria.
On a side note, I am happy to be able to talk to my parents, siblings and my friends through MagicTalk (which is similar to MagicJack but this is more of a software for my laptop). The connection isn’t the best but I don’t call often anyways. I use it maybe once a week so it’s worth it for me personally. I use the laptop speaker and mic and that could explain why some of the people had difficulty hearing me or having the conversations disconnect periodically. I will invest in a proper speaker and mic system when I go shopping randomly and hopefully its affordable too.