Nic Trips

Christmas is my favorite time of year. So of course, I brought the holiday into the classroom as soon as the holiday season rolled in. I set up a Christmas party class, the same as last year, on the days before Christmas for each of my grades. This school year, I have WAY more students than last. So this meant spending my entire Sunday baking 400 cookies and mixing up several sets of colors of icing to decorate them with. I spent hours with my after school class making decorations for fill the classroom with some Christmas spirit. All this work? TOTALLY worth it. I had so much fun, the kids had a blast and all around everyone enjoyed the week. Same as last year, I tried to take as many pictures and videos during the classes as I could to compile a fun music video! Merry Christmas~! I would begin each class teaching the kids a little bit about how we celebrate Christmas in the USA. In Korea, Christmas is celebrated as a "couples' holiday" (more similar to V...

Here's the video I made for the 2015 EPIK Life Video Contest! It's a contest for all of the EPIK English teachers in Korea to make a 5 minute video about their lives here. Last year I got 4th place... This year, I won grand prize! The reward was 500,000 won (about $480). So have a watch and learn all about what teaching in Korea is really like.