My name is Justin Loutsch, and here is where you can read about me trying to find my way in the world, get a job related to international student advising, and have fun. Click About page for more info.
My director observed me in the classroom last week, and then met with me after and told me I have a long way to go to becoming a good teacher. When she asked about my previous experience teaching German I told her it was not in a formal classroom but an immersion environment. What I’m [...]
My first month began with a week filled with review, followed by 2 days of testing in which no material was taught. The material that I didn’t not teach last week will have to be crammed into 2 days this week instead of 3 (MWF normally) because Friday we are having an all day Halloween [...]
I was told by one of my coworkers while at the bar last night that there is a huge community of English teachers in Seoul, and that it mostly revolves around the bar scene. She said that teaching English in Seoul is, for most people, an extension of college. That’s not really quite what I’m [...]
I started my first day of teaching last Friday (October the 16th) and it was very overwhelming. The kids are constantly yelling out “teacher! teacher!” whenever they have a question. I got over this quickly and ignore most of them and tell them to ask one at a time. The last teacher instituted a dollar [...]
Working at the Concordia language village was an amazing experience for me. I am still shocked by this because of the short time in which I worked there, just 2 weekends a month for four short months. These weekends changed me tremendously. A brief explanation: these villages are language immersion camps for middle school and [...]
All of a sudden I feel really alone today. I’m just not very happy about my job right now, or my dad. The job is just starting to suck, sales are really being pushed and we have to upgrade upgrade upgrade while at the same time we are not being given enough cars to do [...]
So i thought I would make a picture…
This lady I helped today, I was shaking mad at the manager for talking to her the way he did. It felt good to actually try and do something for someone, even though I got shot down for it in the end (oh btw, I forgot to tell you about this, so here it goes: [...]