Frustration

So, the movie thing was not so good an idea, it turned out.
First off, in spite of promises made to me, there was NOT a DVD player in every classroom. So, the first five or ten minutes of every grade one class was spent sending a kid to get a DVD player, then, getting someone from another class to set it up for us, because somehow, in every class, no-one knew how to set it up.
The second grade one class, that is very low-level except for No Kyeong-min, went particularly poorly. First of all, I couldn't give Kyeong-min his certificate, because he got sick and went home the period before our class. Then, I tried to explain that the whole class did not do so well in the contest, but that Kyeong-min had earned them enough bonus points to get them second place. Well, I'm not even sure that they knew that they had won. Or that they did well. Or that there was even a contest.
The movie, once playing, was okay. I stopped it periodically, and gave them prizes for telling me about the movie so far.

Then, this afternoon, we had the meeting with Mrs Lee, and my coteachers. Man, that was not so great. We basically sat there while Mrs Lee debated what was going to happen at the camps we would work at. I should mention that this debate took place in Korean, with much pointing and gesturing...
Anyways, the worst part of it was that we were only told TODAY that our 20 classes a week with these kids would actually be four classes a day with the same kids! Why would they not tell us that sooner? That is 20 hours of lessons in one week! Mrs Lee told me long ago that the camp we would have 20 classes a week, four a day. But she never mentioned that they would be the same kids for four classes in a row. Why would they not just say that we would be teaching one four-hour class a day?
It's crazy! That is a LOT of time to spend with kids who can BARELY speak any english.