Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while. Last week was filled with classes and planning and then the weekend came. My birthday was decent. Friday night I hung out with a guy that lives in my town, but he's from Scotland. He came over with EPIK in February. It was fun. We hung out at his place and had a few drinks. So the first hour of my birthday was good. Then, I had plans to go out to Pohang and stay over there for the weekend but the girl I was supposed to stay with broke up with her boyfriend Saturday morning so she canceled saying she didn't feel like going out and just wanted to be alone. Understandable I suppose but it sucked because then I had nowhere to stay and as the last bus back to to Yeongdeok runs at 11:30 and she canceled at 4 :/ Yeah. So I just stayed home and watched movies. Sunday I was going to walk around Yeongdeok to explore a little more and get out of my apartment but I didn't wake up until 2:30 so that didn't happen. It was raining all weekend though too so not really a good day for exploring anyhow. So I had another movie day. :]
Yesterday was Monday so it was back to work again. It was the second time I've had my high schoolers and the first real lesson. I taught Vacations which they learned pretty well. We focused on the phrases "On vacation, I would like to go to ________." "I would like to go there because __________." and "On vacation, I would like to ________." At the end of class I assigned them a project to plan a 3 day vacation with a minimum of one activity per day using the sentences we worked on, to be turned in next week. And I told them the 5 best vacations will get a prize. So we'll see how it works out. I only had one student class so that was easy. I had 2 teacher classes though. :/ The first one was a bit rough. I never know how much they understand and if they tell me they understand then I assume they do and I move on. So this group kept telling me they understood so I continued to move on. We covered way too much material. And apparently they didn't understand half the lesson. So yeah... Mr. Lee told me at the end that I covered too much and they didn't understand and that they wanted a written dialogue of whatever I cover that day in class so... the class wasn't exactly a success but at least they told me what they want so the classes in the future can be and not just be me standing up front talking for 50 minutes. :/ Overall, not a bad day. Oh, and at the end I was supposed to have my English teacher class, which got cut to once a week, fine with me :]. Instead, Oeja brought out a pizza and bottle of Coke and we had a "pizza party" haha. Apparently Mr. Pa told her that my favorite food is pizza - that's what my powerpoint said but that was more so that my favorite food would be something the kids knew and I could pretend we had common ground :/ - anyway, I do like pizza but... Korean pizza and American pizza are two very different ideas. Korean pizza has no tomato sauce (or red sauce at all for that matter), no meat, and no salt. Instead it has chunks of potato, something sweet and yellow (which may or may not be sweet peppers - they weren't even the tiniest bit spicy so I'm not sure), cheese, kernels of corn under the cheese, and some sort of white sweet, cream cheesey type of something between the cheese and the crust - where the delicious salty tomato sauce belongs. I guess I know why they call it "white pizza" now....
Anyhow, life is moving forward. Things are well. I'm going to get my kitten this weekend from Daegu so I'm thinking of going Friday night if I can find someplace to crash for the night and then getting the kitten and going home Saturday afternoon. That would be ideal. Welp, off to do a bit of planning and emailing. Love you all and miss you!!
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