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good morning I'm gonna say hello from
Seoul South Korea my name is Celia
Cervantes you can call me assessee and I
will be taking you on a journey on what
my average day is here like teaching in
South Korea so I live near Songdo
station very crowded area as you can see
there's lots of traffic but that's okay
because I don't have to drive to work or
take away I just take a 10-minute walk
so so I really like my area it's very
family friendly I would say it's less
hectic than a lot of the other areas in
Seoul I'm away from like all the party
areas but still close enough to be able
to do that on the weekend so my area is
very very lovely
you
so I work for Cheongdam Academy and in
the afternoon we are bricks English for
elementary school let me show you around
before some of the kids get here so my
Academy we do kindergarten in the
morning and elementary in the afternoon
kindergarten is mainly done on this side
of the building
I do teach very young children so in one
of the classrooms we have a play area
here's a desk so the cool thing about my
academy is that the kids have a lot of
fun here before the kids start classes
they have play time in here which you'll
get to see a little bit of and let me
show you all my classroom by the way I
am American I'm from Reno Nevada and I
took the online tough of course and I've
been in Korea for a little over a year
now so I've gotten a lot of questions
about the language I am personally not
fluent or even close to fluent in Korean
but over the past year I've gotten to
know a lot of the basic phrases and
those has helped out a ton it's still
possible to go and live life without
knowing any Korean but I will say that
it's an advantage if you know how to say
basic phrases and if you know how to
read Korean I personally had no teaching
experience I just had a university
degree and a bit of experience with kids
you
it didn't take me long after completing
the online course to get to Korea
because I actually planned it out so
that I would be at in Korea at the end
of August and around that time I would
also be completing my course so it
worked out because I work at a private
Hagelin Academy I do not have Korean
co-teacher with me in class but I know
that if you go the public school route
you usually have a Korean co-teacher
hello I am here with my coworker from
South Africa we are up Monday Wednesday
Fridays we are off at 6:05 and Tuesday
Thursdays were off at 7:00
so we started the day at 9:20 and work
until then also as you can tell it is
raining but it is not cold at all
another thing you'll notice about Korea
is just how convenient like this it's a
little too convenient sometimes so we're
walking over here's my bank right next
to it is my gym there's a pharmacy on
the corner lots of cafes and this is all
just on the walk home from work
there's another question I've been
getting a lot but basically as soon as I
started taking my online Tuffle course I
started applying to jobs yes and this is
one of the many reasons I love Korea but
basically if you're under the national
health insurance plan which most
employer lists will do for you then it
makes everything so cheap like hospital
visits clinics everything at the
pharmacy I wish someone would have told
me just how easy it is to get a job
because I think a lot of recruiters will
try to shy you away and say that there
aren't enough jobs in Seoul but that is
not true there are so many opportunities
here so I always feel so weird when I'm
answering this question because I think
people expect me to say oh I'm
interested in Korean culture kpop yada
yada but actually I just had the best
benefits and and there are poor keynotes
Oh God so the hardest part of the job
would definitely hat would have to be
how unpredictable kids can be um so I
work with a lot of kindergarten kids for
the first half of my day and it is a
rollercoaster you'll find that it is so
easy to make friends here at least um
foreign friends aspirant Koreans
I think Koreans already have their
established group so it's harder to make
friends that way but you can make them
pretty much anywhere I met most of my
best friends one amount ultimately what
made me decide hagwon was just the
timing the public school application
deadline had passed and hagwons higher
year um so it just worked out for me
honestly not really I think there's
something really special about having
your own classroom without anyone
interfering and it was scary but it's
definitely doable
I totally prefer not having a Korean
co-teacher yes every school should
provide you with a room my place is
definitely a lot smaller than most
places only because I live so close to
two universities
you
okay I know I didn't get to all of your
questions and I'm so sorry I tried
answering the questions that were being
asked most often but if I didn't get to
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give you answer so with all that said
thank you everyone for tuning in this
ahjumma is going to bed child's a good
night
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