July 10th, 2011
I had a big staff meeting, meet the students, lunch
event thing at Dankook University. Nothing much of any research related
interest.
July 11th, 2011
I was really worried about how many students I'd get
and also worried some of them might be just shopping around. We talked about the
class, did an exercise to create a cultural literacy test for Korea, I gave a
short lecture and we had our first practice of Bongsan Talchum. It seems
I have seven students (two more were just checking out the class).
July 12th, 2011
The second day of class went much more smoothly as I
wasn't worrying about who or how many would show up and just focused on
teaching my lesson. I hadn't assigned anyone to present on the reading so I had
prepared to foster a discussion myself—but only a couple of them had read it. I
promptly assigned the rest of the readings to different students. At the end of
class Abigail brought a friend in from another classroom and the girl, Jessica,
asked to join my class as she'd fallen asleep in her other class. Abigail
assured her it wouldn't happen in my class. The frustration for the day was finding
out that they still hadn't made my reader, because they'd given me the
originals the previous day—why did you give them back to me when I took them to
you over a week ago, you could have just kept them!
In the evening I went to a lecture on Buddhism by
Robert Buswell, an amazing UCLA Buddhist studies professor who I really like. I
just wanted to see him, fortunately since the talk didn't have much new (to me)
information in it. He is an excellent speaker, though.
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