My First Day of Teaching

Before I arrived to Korea everyone who had ever been here told me the same thing; "things are disorganized and you will get annoyed very quickly." Well, after my first few days of "training" and organizing my room, I thought it wasn't too bad. I had come in expecting the worst, and when I didn't have the worst, I thought I was in the clear. I was definitely premature in having this thought. After my first day with the children was over I was told I would not be teaching out of the curriculum given to me after all. This may have seemed less aggravating if I had not spend hours arranging my room and planning out lessons for the next few weeks based on this curriculum. I asked the most logical question next, "so what will I be teaching then?" The response I received was long and confusing, and resulted in an impromptu staff meeting, with no real results. In the end no one knows yet what I will be teaching, and they will decide by the end of the week what books to order. In the meantime I was told to "be creative." All I could think was it is a good thing I already know how to teach children reading, or else this class would be a joke for the next few weeks!
Other than the lack of structure and organization held by the school, my kids were great! I have 7 children in my class. Most of them speak English fairly well and can understand for the most part what I am saying. I on the other hand have no idea what they are saying. I kept having this feeling that whenever they were speaking Korean to each other they were talking about me! However, they did draw me nice pictures, so I guess this means whatever they were saying about me could not have been too bad.
Tomorrow begins the rotation of the four 6 year old classes and my job is to teach them reading. Exactly what I am doing tomorrow is a mystery to me. I gave up planning because I am most likely going to be told to change it when I get there!