Posung County, South Cholla ProvinceThe very famous green tea fields of Daehan Tea Plantation.
Avalon, the school that I work at, has a weekend retreat for all the teachers this weekend. We have to go as it is part of the annual team-building spirit! Every foreign teacher will be attending as well as the Korean/English teachers. There are a few exceptions though, some of the teachers get to opt out for 'religious reasons!'
Quite lame if you ask me, but you know God would be proud of them!!!! Some of us are a little peeved at that 'lame hop-out excuse' for some of them.
We get to meet at 8.30am and then drive off to an unknown destination about 2 hours away. Avalon of course pays for everything including food and hopefully booze... if not I will have my big bottle of soju in my bag anyway!
Then to top that early hour, we get woken up on Sunday morning at 6am..... seriously.... for exercises!!!! We should get back about 3 or 4pm Sunday afternoon, hopefully.
Most of the teachers are a little peeved at having their whole weekend compromised, but more so because of the early meeting and wake up times. Usually most of us sleep a little later on the weekend because it's the weekend.
Other than that though, I am looking forward to the camp, really! I have seen a pamplet of the place and it looks quite nice. It looks like a boy scouts camp or something. I just hope they have tv or internet, even basic, so I can find out about the Liverpool vs Chelsea FA Cup semi-final on Saturday night.
There will be a workshop to discuss and exchange ideas about the whole school process and information sessions about the progress of Avalon school from a business point of view. It should be a little informative, but of course boring. I am sure there will be way too much Korean spoken, which is the usual style of having camps here. Don't understand why really as everyone there 'can' speak English, or can they?
Oh well, it is only usually once or twice a year this camp thing, so we have to suck it up and take it on the chin.
9 comments:
hey I love the new template for your blog man...it looks great and the tea fields match very nicely..you know you'll have lots of fun at the 'retreat'! Anyways u can call, i'll be watching the game somewhere! hahaha
Religious reasons come before FA Cup semi final reasons!!!! I'll wager you may wake up with flu on saturday morning.
Are you in tents?
Hope you have a great time!
(You always wanted to be a boy scout!!..lovely legs for those shorts!!)
Hi Paul
hope you are home safe and sound from your retreat and still can't believe Liverpool won and chelsea's manager has really got sour grapes you should have heard his comments. Love you. Mum oxox
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