Sunday, June 28, 2009

Changing Schools from ELC to Omni

Goodbye ELC
We stopped working at ELC in May because we switched English schools. Here are some pictures of Melissa with her favorite class on our last day at ELC.

Melissa with Handsome Boy, Lina, Grace, Julia, Lisa, and Jane

Melissa's favorite student Grace!

The students get to choose their English name and this boy decided to go with "Handsome Boy." Most kids choose normal names, but some choose names like Snowman, Dragon, Obama, and Mr. No Name.
They love Melissa's double-jointed arms!!!

Jane

Pretending to be rabbits
Time to study

Let's learn English!

Omni
Our boss from ELC decided to build and open his own English school (only 2 buildings over from ELC) and asked the two of us to work there. The school, Omni, opened on June 1 with 30 students. Now the school has grown to 41 students after being open for 3 weeks. All of the students we teach are completely fluent in English and most have lived abroad in America, Canada, or Australia. We teach 2nd-6th graders and have up to 6 students in a class.

Melissa with some students on the first day of Omni.

Their true colors showing in this one!

Omni is on the second floor of this brand-new building.

Jessie, Chris's wife, sitting in the reception area of Omni.
She teaches grammar to the students.
Jessie

Looking into 2 of the 4 classrooms

Our boss Chris, at his desk

Frank in front of the parent-conference room

The first day

Melissa teaching the 6th graders on the first day

Jessie with some of our 3rd grade students: Cindy, Harry 1, Harry 2, and Joy...Harry is the most popular boy's name because they all love Harry Potter.

Frank with Harry 1&2, Joy, and June

Harry 2 and June showing off their muscles

5th graders Lucy and Brenda (in the yellow)...We have actually nicknamed her "Momma!"

A few of our 5th grade students: Daniel, Robert, and Alfred

1 comment:

  1. Melissa, we enjoyed the new posting on your blog. The pictures and explanations are great!
    It makes me want to go overseas again. Wish we could visit you in Korea, but I think the travel would be too much for us at our age, especially since Grandpa's injury. He has healed well but still has some pain when walking. He is out riding his bicycle again today! God has been so good to us. We love you both very much!

    Grandma and Grandpa

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