Sorry for the lack of posts. I really do mean to post more but I'm a slacker. Anyways so I spent a majority of my weekend at the Korean Kumdo Championships. It was pretty cool. On a related not I passed my Kumdo test and am officially 5th grade. That means I (finally) get to use armor. I already paid for it and will get to start using it on Monday. YAY. Things at school have been quite busy as we have been down a teacher since the start of the month. Our new teacher is supposed to be her on Thursday but we'll see. Otherwise things are typical.
Over the next few weeks I plan to blog about my classes and students so look forward to that.
I also received a request to post about cultural stuff so I guess I'll start doing that too. Nothing really comes to mind at the moment but I did go grocery shopping today so I guess I'll go into that experience. I went to Lottemart which is only a 5 minute walk away, and is pretty much where I do most of my shopping for food. It's a multi-level store, bigger than your run-of-the-mill Super Wal-Mart. At any rate, the when you enter and leave they have people who bow and say something like "thanks for shopping here". Weird, but also familiar as we have people greeters at Wal-Mart, just without the bowing. You might also be pleased to know people who stop right in the middle of an aisle or just stop right in front of you are prevalent here too, though here it's a cultural thing, people who don't know you are allowed to be pretty rude. You get people trying to get ahead of you in line and all that junk a lot. Why the other day I was standing at a taxi rank when a taxi stopped and I started to move toward it this lady just barged ahead an took it. While that's not common it was still annoying as you really aren't supposed to do anything (like you can anyways...). Whatev.
My vacation starts on the 29th and runs for until the 4th. Unfortunately I won't be able to go out of the country or anything due to my GI wanting to do a procedure to get some imaging since it's been a year from my last images. Lets just say it involves a flexible fiber optic camera. I'll let you fill in the blanks there.
