Day 12 -Illustration and Phonics

And lately, this is how my art comes about. I use it to help my students at school. These are a series of simple illustrations I’m making for my phonics book as part of my 1/2 grade phonics program. Normally, I Microsoft paint slap these books together but the stories are getting more complicated. Also, parents will be seeing it for my open class so… gotta look presentable.

Day 10 - TOPIK what?

계산기 - calculator
공중 - public
달력 - calendar
수첩 - pocket notebook/ book of reminders
수첩에 적어 두다 - to jot something down in your notebook
두다 - get something out of the way/place/position
두더지 - a mole (animal)
우표 - stamp
명함 - business card (not 명암 - bright and dark shades)
와이셔츠 - business shirt
-증 - bill/certificate (aka 학생증)
사원 - company employee, 사원증 - employee id
우전면허증 - driver’s license
오도계 - thermometer
서류 - document
서류험 - filimg cabinet
-험 - sorter
지폐 - paper money
수표 - check
기습기 - humidifier
수세미 - scrubbing brush
고무 - rubber
방화 - arson
장화 - boots
교통 - traffic/transportation
시용카드 - credit card
신분 - social standing/status

Day 9 -
Playing around with the camera.

Day 8 - Studious
Doing some baby fox studies in my surprise downtime.

Day 7 - Self Sketch

Day 6 - Fundraising for Sewol
Good friend performed and I took pictures. I’m going to need a better lens once I get better at this. Shooting in low light is tought when my largest aperture is still pretty small.

Day 5 -
No access to my comp, so some photos of photos of last night’s write balance in the dark tests.

Day 4 - I'm a slacker

Actually, I’ve been trying to take more photography and get used to the settings on my camera. However, I didn’t know how to access them. Luckily, I found a USB port that supports my memory stick. Photos to come. Now I have no excuses to slack.

Day 3 -
Man on a bus, pen

Day 2 -
Cloudy Sunday morning calls for a continuous pen drawing to make it complete

Teacher, watch this

Just a little anecdote for other English teachers. Yesterday, I went to go visit my old students. It was so great going back. And even better was seeing the little impact I had. During my time there, i had convinced one student, who had told me that she couldn’t read, to do a reading program with me. When I visited yeaterday, she pulled me aside and read passages from her English textbook.

She now practices her reading without me, just because.

Day 1 -
A pencil sketch

Thinking back on the people I’ve met and ways I’ve grown in Korea, its probably one of the best decisions I’ve made in a long while. But life moves so fast here. I often lose track and lose sight of what I set out to do.
This tumblr is is an attempt at slowing it all down and doing at least one thing a day that I want or enjoy or need. Often those three go hand in hand.
So here’s to creating; creating appreciation and creating time.

And this post is here to remind me what I’m doing.