hehehe, kinda let this die, didn't I? Well I knew it would happen. The longer you go without posting the harder it is to start again 'cause you just think of all the things you need to write about and get discouraged. Meh. So perhaps i'll just skip all that and just talk about the now.
Sooo it's November, tomorrow marks the three month mark of being in Korea...on the one hand it seems like it's been a lot longer, on the other like it's been not long at all. Though lately I'm feeling like it's been a lot longer and 3 months sounds way too short. >.> Anyway, things have really settled in now....except that I'm still making my lesson plans for the week sunday night *cough* err...but I have a MUCH better idea now about what works and what doesn't.
This week, part of my lesson involves explaining school in America to the students. They're all ABSOLUTELY amazed when I say that school is from 8AM - 3PM and that there's no school on saturday. Every time there is cries of jealousy. And it gets louder when I add that there aren't any school uniforms in school (except for private school). Another thing I find interesting is when I ask them at first what they know about school in America, almost every time...if not every time they mention School buses. Huh...Somehow/somewhere they know about school buses, but not that there isn't school on saturday or that there aren't school uniforms usually...interesting.
In other news, I've started watching the drama "Baker King Kim Tak Gu"....and by started i mean i'm currently on episode 25/30. And it's awesome...I finally know why everyone was freaking out about it when we first got here XD
Kay that was a random tidbit. I think i'll end this random post for now, and read Harry Potter 7, which I checked out from the tiny English Library at my school ;D Unfortunately HP7 doesn't come out here til a month after it does in the US. Actually I guess it's probably already out in the US isn't it? Dec. 16th here D;
Oh well, more time to actually read the book I guess.
OH but first I wanted to mention that today is the day in Korea where all the high school seniors take their super scary, only once a year, college entrance exams. Everything else in the country seems to start later because of all the crazy traffic from this test...or so I've heard. I do know that my school started an hour later than usual for no reason other than it was college SAT day. My co-teacher also told me that today no airplanes will fly anywhere because the sound from the airplane might disturb the listening portion of the test. O__O If that's not serious, I dunno what is.
One of my other co-teacher's daughter is taking the test today. Apparently she was very nervous last night, I DON'T BLAME HER! I guess they have to get to their test location by...8-something, and the test starts at 8:40AM, which is not very unusual to us Americans who have SAT's, BUT. But. In Korea, the test is over around 6PM!!! :O What is this crazyness? D; No wonder people freak out over this stuff. And it's only ONCE a year, so you only get ONE chance really...though theoretically you can take it again next year, but I don't think that's really a comforting thought because you'd already have graduated high school by then.
So yeah...scary. O__O But I do like coming to work an hour later X3
Kay, now for Harry Potter ;D
PS: I've started trying to do this Project 365 business, which is where you try to upload a picture you take every day for a year. So far...I've got 4....but. knowing myself...I DO tend to let things die....lolol, like this blog...
Anyway, worth a shot right?
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