Started this blog last week Wednesday! Geez time flies here! Once again, gonna try to catch up on some blogging. Here is what I wrote last Wed:
Phone is in posession. Complete with a 4-leaf clover charm dangling from it's side. Out of 3 options for a free phone, I chose the one with the least pink possible. I know, I know, I'm in Korea I might as well have a ridiculously "cute" phone, but trust me it still has "Korea" written all over it.
Tuesdays classes, not as fun as my middle schoolers, but not too bad behavior wise. Got all of my classes over with by 2pm. Then had to wait until 5:45 for Mr. Bahn to finish his classes. Of course I could have been lesson planning for next week, but the procrastinator in me lead me to chat on Skype instead. Finally we leave school and head to the cell phone store. At this time the wind was howling like crazy & signs were literally on the ground in the small city we were in. Apparently we were getting high winds from the Japan tsunami, so some people say.
I don't think I could survive, as well, without a co-teacher like Mr. Bahn. He has been so helpful and nice since I met him. On the drive into town he mentioned that he worries about me during lunch everyday because he thinks I am not eating enough. I tried to explain to him that even though he doesn't see me eating Korean food, I still eat it when I go out with my friends, and I eat enough "western" food on the side as well.
So we get to the cell phone store, which is the same company he uses, and he translates everything they were describing about phone plans, costs, types of phones, etc. I ended up choosing a 2 year contract that only costs about $40 USD to cancel if I leave in less than 2 years. With the plan I also get the phone for free, so that worked out in my favor. I was afraid I would owe something up front and I'm running low on WON at the moment. Pay day is the 25th!! Can't wait to celebrate and claim that I am a millionaire. We like to call WON monopoly money here lol. I will be getting about 3 million WON at the end of the month...my paycheck plus an entrance allowance :)
So after acquiring a cell phone, Mr. Bahn asks me if I'd like to have dinner with him. Of course I say yes and he takes me to a place where you cook the meat yourself. We had samgypsal, which is like a thick chunks of bacon. Of course it came with a bunch of side dishes, veggies, and kimchi. I think it made him happy to see that I actually enjoyed and ate most of the dishes for dinner. He even ordered me a bowl of noodles after the meal, which is customary in Korea. I figured out it's probably a good sobering up technique if you choose to do so because we drank 2 bottles of Soju between the two of us, lol. In the middle of the meal he told me "You are much stronger than I thought" in reference to my drinking ability. HAHA. This led to conversations about going to work hungover in the past. His stories topped mine. He said he once threw up in front of his students lol. Come to find out, today, he informed me that he continued his drinking with friends after I took a cab home. Therefore, he was hungover today at work!
That brings me to my classes today. Today was more high school classes, 2 out of 3 being poorly behaved. In one of the classes I had a young male express his "love" for me over and over. We were practicing different ways to introduce yourself to a new person. I asked him, "How are you?" He replied, "I love you." I ask him, "What is your name?" Again, the same response. I quickly said "Nice to meet you" (didn't want to give into his antics) and walked to the next student. Then my last group of students meets after lunch. This class is of course tired & they want to put their heads on the desks. In the middle of my lecture I notice I'm basically talking to a wall. I stop, tell them to stand up, stretch, jump around, then sit back down. I lead into the activity part and ask them what kind of music they want to listen to. They randomly chose Lady Gaga, so I put on music. This got the majority of them to wake up! Success, no matter how small, it was still success for me!
Moving on to another post to update everything to today, Tuesday March 22nd :)
XOXO,
Amanda
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