Welcome back! To those of you joining us for the first time, welcome! To those of you who refuse to read and have never visited my blog, you're really missing out, aren't you? You don't even know I'm talking about you right now. Joke's on you!
This week was pretty nice, actually. The whole extra class at the kindergarten next door thing wasn't too bad, since I only teach over there Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. It's 25 minutes and I just teach the same lesson to 3 classes once a week. Did that make sense? The part that sucks is that I am handed the book when I actually walk into the class I'm supposed to be teaching! There are a lot more kids in these classes and the kids in my "evil" class are there. I don't particularly like doing it, but it's not a big deal and not worth complaining about! Also, I love the kindergarten teachers so it's fun to be in their classes for a little bit.
*update! I hate teaching over there haha
I believe I have a couple funny class stories.
I asked my class (Sunny, Sally, Sue, Sara, no more Subin) if they had done their homework. I hear one little voice, "You say no homework" and then one after the other they each pipe up, "You say no homework!" I giggled to myself and just for my own amusement asked, "What did I say?" And they answered IN unison, "YOU SAY NO HOMEWORK!" I don't know why they each felt the need to say it but it made me laugh.
I have some other stories from this class but they are inappropriate to post here..ah! Too bad!
That same day, I was waiting outside the classroom where I teach Fred and Aidan. Aidan opened the door for me and said, "Come on in, baby!" WHAT?! I doubled over with laughter and was so tickled by it, I had to interrupt Sophie in her class to tell her the story! You have to understand, Aidan speaks hardly any English. Where does he learn these things?!
I had a few of the foreign teachers over Tuesday night for games and even though I don't actually own any games, it worked. Turns out, Phase 10 is JUST too hard for some guys. I'm pretty sure most females would catch on but what's wrong with these men? :-) It was a really fun night and another one is already being planned for this week! Maybe it will be a weekly thing. I hope so!
Charlie and Monica (my directors) have just moved to Jangyu. They had all the teachers over to their new (and VERY nice) apartment on Thursday night. Everybody from the Korean kindergarten and our academy was there so it was a pretty full house! Wow, there was so much delicious food and of course plenty of Soju. This is Korea, after all. I sat with my co-teachers while I ate but soon moved over to be with my old friends from the kindergarten! If you've read old posts, you know about them! There were games led by our gym teachers (one drives the van that says, "Dreaming Event" and has starts and hearts on it haha) and it was great to just be silly with people you work with AND for! Our English Academy crew is not half as fun as the Korean kindergarten crew and they skipped out early. Everybody was a lot of fun and Monica gave Joey and me boxes to take home food. Since it was Thursday, I was planning on meeting the foreigners (sounds like a cult!) out at Wa Bar. As Joey and I were in the elevator with the two gym teachers, I asked if they knew about Wa to see if they wanted to join us. THEN, when we got outside we ran into all the other teachers and the guys invited them too! We rolled in with all these people to join the several foreign teachers and it was really fun/funny and all that. Good times all around!!
Friday turned out to be birthday party day for all the kids who had birthdays during the month, I guess. It was real funny how seriously the moms must take this. The girls were dressed in their MOST princessy ball gowns, tiaras included. They had makeup on and their hair done. It was pretty amazing. We were pulled out of our classes to join the photo shoots. The birthday kids from each class would get a picture in front of their cakes first, then their class would give them presents (after presenting the presents, the class would offer a big "congratulations" for living another year) and then the whole class stood behind the table full of cakes and that's where we foreign teachers were able/forced to jump in. It was just silly but it got me out of two classes. Awesome. Then snack time came around and we got to eat the yummy cake!
I woke up Saturday with a very sore throat. I've been sick the last week or so but I was determined to get better for Saturday night! For weeks I've been hearing about this particular norebong (singing room/karaoke room) that has costumes. I already LOVE norebongs without wigs and santa costumes and I just knew it would be amazing! **IT WAS WAY AMAZING check facebook for pictures**
saturday-trying to get better for dinner and norebong! amazing costumes
sunday-lazy day then dinner, dvd bang, dinner
being "saved by the bell"
AAAND that's all you get:-) I'm surprised that much of it saved and since my computer is down (power cord died and I'll have to wait a few weeks for the new one) I'll have to go ahead and get this one posted, without pictures:-( I had some really great pics and videos for this post too!! Well, enjoy what you can I guess!
~Computerless Teacher,
Erica Jane~
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