Interviews of DOOM!

We are did placement test and interviews today and some tomorrow for our English students. It was very exciting today. The first part was written test. I was a "invigilator" which neither I nor the other English teachers thought was a real word, though I should have known better because their were strong properly used latin roots in it that would be hard to put together accidentally. It seems the British use it like we use "proctor." Anyhow, I was a invigilator in the meeting hall along with Mike and two Korean helpers. It took a bit of time getting all the students in there, so I ended up entertaining them by juggling erasers, doing silly magic tricks, and other clownish deeds, attempting to ease the sense of doom written on their young faces.

After the test were the interviews. Each of the English teachers had a room, and then one by one a student, and maybe their parents would come in and we would ask them questions, the difficulty of which would be determined by the students level, and we graded them depending on their responses. Responses in nice complete sentences were the best, no answers were the worst. Most student's answers were a mix in between. It was quite fun. I found out that ski camp is a popular thing to do for vacation, that pizza and speggetti are delicious, and that we are going to teach two future dentists, one anomalous doctor, a singer, a cook and a business man.

I also found out the Tae-Kwon-Do place is being remodeled, so it won't be until next week that I can go.