This is just three days in, but Lydia is one of the sharpest Koreans I've ever worked with. She is possibly THE sharpest. She just gets the situation. It's really incredible.
Before she got here, Julie would pull Geoff and I whenever we had prep time and ask us to help Katie with her classes. Now, that's fine on a slow day, but generally we're pretty busy actually preparing lessons. So it's a little bit annoying.
Well, we had no morning classes today, so Julie told Lydia she wanted Geoff and I to help with Katie's class. She wanted us for about 2 hours. But Lydia stood up to her immediately. She told Julie how busy we are and that we could go for 30 minutes maximum.
And when that 30 minutes got close, she actually came up to get us.
I heard Julie explaining to Katie about our 30 minute limit, saying that Lydia was changing things and we would be really busy in the English Center now. Well, we were busy before. She just made it worse by bringing us in for extra classes.
Katie's a great teacher and I enjoy participating in her classes a lot, but we do legitimately have a lot to do.
Lydia is nailing down a schedule for us as far in advance as possible. Although she knows it's unrealistic to think it's set in stone. The three of us re-arranged all our materials today too to make sure things that we use most often are easiest to get to. We were even doing an inventory of all our books and materials. It actually feels like professionalism.
I can say, right now, that Lydia is the bomb. I'm so excited that she's working with us.
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