Teacher volleyball

Nearly every ESL Teacher I know has been invited to play volleyball with the Korean teachers. It varies from school to school but the volleyball events seem to happen once every three months on a Wednesday afternoon. This appears to be a pretty big networking event among the Korean teachers and more or less everyone plays. The students won't be there.

This is also a social event so they have lots of food and adult beverages. The one time I played back in December my principal kept pouring me beer and mokoli (Korean rice wine). Coming from United States it seems rather odd to drink during work hours on school grounds, but that's just how it's done. Like random days off, the trick is to find out in advance so that you can bring proper shoes and a change of clothes.

The gym at Baeksusuh Elementary School




The food and booze