Sidewalk Stories

In my previous post How I Design My Worksheets in 10 Steps, I briefly spoke about how I translate between Korean and English to make bilingual teaching materials. Every worksheet contains dozens of tiny language…

Truly there’s a lot I love about life in Korea, which is why I’m still here, but sometimes a girl just needs to complain. 1. Why is the fruit so expensive? As someone who grew…

Hello friends, I thought I would share my 10 step process behind how I make fun and engaging ESL elementary school worksheets! I use Canva for almost everything now. Sometimes if I want to do…

Sidewalk English started as a very specific collection of materials that I created myself to solve very specific problems that kept coming up for me as a public school teacher in Korea. It takes way…

Hey friends, Welcome to a new rant from me. I’m an EPIK (English Program in Korea) English teacher in Seoul, South Korea, and I recently made a shocking discovery. Setting the Scene Let me give…

I teach English at a public elementary school in Seoul, South Korea as an EPIK teacher. I’m always in the best mood ever when I’m at least 20 minutes early for work. First of all,…

Hello friends, Welcome to my rant about spaghetti in Korea. There is no spaghetti in Korea. Okay, I lied. There definitely is spaghetti here, but it’s just different. Korean Pasta is Korean Pasta You can…

Last semester, I led an English club at school for teachers and faculty who wanted to practice English! We met every Wednesday at 2pm for teatime and snacks. For about an hour, we had English…

Here are some no-prep English classroom games that I’ve had to do on the spot when the schedule has changed up on me or there’s some extra time leftover or something unexpected happens. These are…

I wanted to share more about my EPIK (English Program In Korea) interview process, specific details and timing, and my suggestions on how to prepare for it for anyone interested in applying to EPIK. You…