Life in The ROK

Life is still going. Things are still happening. I had a pretty much a normal week. On Thursday, I had to explain to Vincent that 5 year olds are like that. Sometimes, they don't want to play with the other students. It doesn't matter how cool we think Ian is sometimes nobody wants to play with him, that day. I then had so explain that I didn't go to a business college, I went to a teaching college, and that I work at school, not a business. When he treats it like a business, I don't care.

Friday we had birthdays. I was really happy. I had three pieces of cake. They were all really good. Two pieces were kinda big. Mike was amazed at how much I could I eat. Katie and I walked to bus stop together. We approached by small children. Lydia and Gabina live in the apartments on the corner we by to get to the bus stop. It turns out that the strawberry bench is a bus stop for school buses. They walked us to the bus stop and they stood at the stop and waved at us. We waved at them. There was this guy standing at the bus stop and I guess he saw us waving at the girls, but he didn't see the girls, so he waved at us. Then he turned and saw the girls and stopped waving at us. He probably felt really stupid at that point in time. Katie and I laughed about half way home.

Saturday, I called my parents. I had to talk them and let them know things are getting busy. By the looks of it I may not be able to call home until next year. I have thanksgiving, play practice, the play itself, the Christmas party, and then Christmas. I know mom will worry a little, but as long as I am blogging, and posting pictures there is nothing to worry about. In fact, dad that is what you should tell mom, when the blogging and the pictures stop then it is time to worry about me. I went to two museum with Hun. We went to the War Memorial Museum. I learned some about the wars that were in Korea. Then we went to the national museum of Korea, which was kinda boring. It only had artifacts in cases. I like to see the artifacts but I also like to see models of stuff also. We went when it was free, so I wasn't too upset. I meet Amanda and Jason for dinner. We went to the Hard Rock Cafe. Then we went to bar and hung out.

Sunday, I went to church. I like listening to Pastor Dan preach. He is very good. After church I meet up with Katie and we went to myeondong. We did some shopping. I got some cute tops. None of them are pink, for those of you who are wondering. I bought a awesome hat. Katie got mustard colored pants. This is great find in her book. After that, Katie needs some DVDs so we went over to Yongsan to the DVD guy. I wanted the last of twilight books, so we went to the bookstore over in yongsan. We had pizza and then called it a day. It was a pretty good weekend.

Korea feels more and more like home. I still get homesick, but I know that I'm being prayed for because it is less of a battle. I'm not going ask to come home early. I like the kids, my friends, and my coworkers. I can deal with the junk that Kelly threw at me through Vincent. Friday is open class. This means that a bunch of parents are going to come to the school and watch me teach. Kelly is a little worried because she sat in on my class today. Alice and Daniel aren't preforming monkeys and then kinda closed up on me. I told her it was her fault. She's worried that they be like that on Friday and it is quite possible. I don't really care. It doesn't bother me. I won't be up to top notch either because I don't like teaching in front of adults.

There will probably be two more blogs this week. One about what I'm thankful for and the other about my students.