2017년 4월 17일 월요일

American teacher who do volunteer work for disabled students in Korea


K-PACE (Korea-Professional Assistant Center for Education), a university for developmental disabilities at Daegu university, has an American teacher and dormitory headmaster(30, Carl Wallin).

He came to Korea for the first time on March last year and he teaches English and stays at the dormitory where the students with developmental disabilities live.

Carl usually help students with dinner, participate in after-school programs, and naturally interact with students in English until end of night out of dormitory.
In the after-school program such as physical education session, Carl use his former athlete's experience to inform students how to use exercise equipment such as dumbbells and treadmills.

In the cooking class, he makes Korean food with students and uploads photographs to his blog.

In addition, Carl participate in programs such as cultural experience and environmental clean-up volunteer activities that are held every Saturday, but Carl do all these volunteer work without pay.

Carl, who grew up in Chicago, was an ice hockey player. He worked as a coach of team he played for in high school. Prior to his arrival in Korea, he was the senior coach of two teams.

Carl had decided to go to Korea because he loved Korean movies and K-pop, took the opportunity to stay with the developmentally disabled.

Carl said "My father was driving school bus at the school for the disabled, so I rode the bus with the other disabled students when i grow up. It was always part of my life."

Carl also says he wants to do as much as he can to have a positive impact on his students.
To do so, He has been devoted to studying Korean for 6 hours each day.

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