Always The Same

It's always the case.  

It never changes.  

Open classes.

They're bullshit.

How I've managed to continually get renewed in this country is a surprise, even to me.  

Not because of my teaching skills or work ethic (there I'd like to think highly of myself and say I'm a NET star!), but because our open classes are what the heads of school use to evaluate a teacher and, in the case of NETs, decided if they want to have us stay around for another year.

You might remember me saying before how amazingly, fantastic my previous open classes have gone.  >.<

Sooo… why would I think that my open class this year would be any different?  

Does the expression "third times a charm" ring any bells.

Well I can say, that for NETs open classes - especially in my case - that expression is also bullshit!

What a crock it all is.

Jeong eun (my new co-teacher.  Sorry I just realized I never introduced you all to her!  I will get on that.) and I were down on hands and knees scrubbing the floor of our classroom, mopping and sweeping and wiping down every surface we could get a sponge to in order to make our student-destroyed-classroom look a little bit more presentable.

Jeong eun also made an assortment of extra teaching materials that contributed (greatly) to the overall presentation of our open class.

And what happened?  What did all our overly, unnecessary work mean in the end?

Nothing.  

Not a f#@$ing thing.

Because no one showed up!

I would say my mind is blown.  That I can't believe this happened.  That I'm shocked that no one had the decency to attend our scheduled open class.  That the amount of work and stress that went into this was completely wasted.  That is was just plain rude to be so disregarded in such a manner.  

But I won't.  

Because this is Korea and this is just how things go… for me at least.  :-P