Hypothetical situation: You have 11 kids who speak next to no English. Next, they have the attention span of a kid with ADHD and no Ritalin. Then for good measure, just pretend they don't want to listen. Yeah that's how my morning was....
On another note I'm officially a registered alien! That's right! I even have a card to prove it!! Now I am entitled to have a bank acct, medical insurance, a cell phone, the internet, and the list goes on. Hopefully sometime in the next week I'll actually set out to get all that mess taken care of.
In other news, two teachers are scheduled to leave at the end of the month, which in turn means we are scheduled to get two new teachers sometime around Saturday if my calculations are correct. That also means I and the other 3 three teachers who arrived at the same time will no longer be the low people on the ladder!
As for my weekend, I took another trip into Seoul, this time to the districts of Itaewon and Dongdaemon (pronounced Eat-a-won and Dong-day-moon). Itaewon is considered the area where all the foreigners go, consequently, many of the shops and restaurants have English all over the place. Among the restaurants I spotted were Subway, Outback Steakhouse, the Hard Rock Cafe, Quiznos, KFC, Burger King, and Mc Donalds to name a few. While Subway tempted me, I ended up going to Kraze Burger, which is really sort of a gourmet diner. I ended up getting a burger and it was soo big you had to eat it with a knife and fork, I give Kraze burger four and a half fries out of five (mainly because they had sweet pickles, what a travesty). I also visited and English book store with a slightly suggestive title, so I don't think I'll be posting that, but at an rate I couldn't find anything worth getting, which is unfortunate. As for Dongdaemon, it's reall attractions are the stadium (really 2 stadiums next to each other, one for baseball, one for soccer) and 5 malls devoted all to clothing. Clothing is a whole other issue, I'll take some picture of various styles of dress here in a bit, but a lot of it sometimes bewilders me.
On the subject of pictures, I will be uploading some more just as soon as I get the internet in my apartment. Cheers!
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Hi Shad,
Your students sound like some of the confirmation classes I have had in the past (maybe even your's??)smile. Keep up the good work. It's snowing here today.
Pastor Bob
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