My Rocking Cradle

The purpose of this post is to help out foreigners like me who cannot browse through Korean internet sites for English pre-schools in Seoul, particularly in the Mapo area where I live. I am grateful to a friend (Ann) who really took the time to browse the net for me and to even go with [...]

My Firstborn has settled down with our daily English Kumon schedule. I feel that he is ready to add another undertaking so I asked hubby if we could add Math Kumon to his daily schedule. So, here we are: The same Kumon teacher will be supervising him every Tuesdays for English and Math. The rest [...]

When I speak English, nobody tells me I don’t sound like a Filipino. In fact, every bit of my diction tells my listener I am a Filipino. Add to that my Ilonggo accent… I am 100% Filipino. But I would hide under the blanket, out of shame, if somebody points out I speak in Taglish (Tagalog-English) [...]

My Little Dynamo is taking a Kumon English class with a Korean Kumon instructor. Most Korean moms would be surprised upon knowing about this as they know I could teach my son English better than the Korean English instructor. And he speaks English – he speaks very little Filipino – as his primary language. But [...]

Majority of us Filipinos are proud of our English Proficiency, written and verbal. I got this from an agent offering real estate properties. This is one of the “better” ones already. Greetings! More power and see you soon! We don’t have yet an actual pictures of the model units that you saw last few days when [...]

Math was not my favorite subject back in school. If I had Math help back then, it would have been different. Maybe. Students are lucky these days. They could get help anytime by just typing on their keyboards. There is an Online Math tutoring website called Tutor Vista which could be accessed anytime. Tutors are available [...]

… and he had his first day in school today. My Little Dynamo had his first taste of a real school setting today in the pre-school of the university where his Lolo (grandfather) is the university president. He is the youngest and the smallest… as expected. He isn’t even a regular student… he is just [...]

Asians are known to be good in Math. The Chinese, Japanese and Koreans are known to have the diligence to excel in this subject. Even then, they get all the available help that they can on the subject. The internet has introduced a new medium for Online Math Tutoring and it is available twenty-four hours a [...]

I went to a number of day care centers before I settled for the Kinder Schule in Mapo. For the first three months, my son only attended a twice a week, 2 hours program. This month, I have enrolled him for a three days, whole day program. Whole day program starts at 10 in the [...]

While we were in Lotte World last Sunday, my Korean friend asked me if I want to be an English teacher here in Korea. She is an English teacher in one of the schools in Gangnam. She is one of the earliest Korean friend I have here in Seoul and she has always been eager [...]