winter camp~~

so the past few weeks have been kinda crazy/boring.

despite the fact that the last day of school was on Christmas eve, i've still had to come to work everyday. [ps i'm the only person at school. except for the office people. who occasionally come to check on me to make sure i don't escape.]

anyways, my first day of camp i walked in to school SUPER unprepared, because my coteacher refused to ever tell me my camp schedule. i just planned a few all-age appropriate random lessons. it ended up working well.

last week was definitely my favorite camp week, probably ever. i had 4th graders first, from 9-10:30 everyday. day 1, i had them make namecards with either their korean or english name [basically, whatever they wanted to be called for the week]. during the activity, a boy and i had the following conversation:

boy: "teacher, teacher! i will make a new english name."
me: "that's really cool! what name?"
boy: "i want to be called mr. eddie!"
me: "you mean...eddie??"
boy: "no, teacher. mister eddie. is it ok?"
me: "oh, absolutely."

BEST. ENGLISH NAME. EVERRR.

and then in my advanced english class [which met everyday], we had "spy camp". so i had the kids solve a crime, do scavenger hunts, interrogations [for some reason, i was the only suspect...], and solve/write codes. they absolutely loved it.