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?
Here
:D
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
School Festival Day~
We had our school festival today!! It was a lot of fun~ ...but i'm too lazy to write about it now, but i felt bad about not posting anything for a while, so I'm gonna post two videos from the performances at the festival. I think these are my favorite performances ;D
BTW, school festivals are awesome~!
1. Second year boy dances Shinee's "Lucifer" dance solo. HE GOT SO MANY CHEERS FROM STUDENTS -AND- TEACHERS hahaha. He was clearly a favorite. I never knew he was such a dancer though. Apparently he put on a great solo dance last semester too...I can't wait til next semester XD
Lucifer
2. Five second year boys, introduced as the "F5" (lol) dance DBSK's "Mirotic" These are the "cool" kids among the second year boys, or some of them anyway. In Korea, this also means they're the smart kids haha, so I know these boys a little better, since they can actually talk to me. They also get interviewed by the MC, another student, at the end haha.
Mini-DBSK
Tomorrow is Sports Day! Super excited ;D
I'll make REAL posts...eventually. I have a lot of pictures/videos!
BTW, school festivals are awesome~!
1. Second year boy dances Shinee's "Lucifer" dance solo. HE GOT SO MANY CHEERS FROM STUDENTS -AND- TEACHERS hahaha. He was clearly a favorite. I never knew he was such a dancer though. Apparently he put on a great solo dance last semester too...I can't wait til next semester XD
Lucifer
2. Five second year boys, introduced as the "F5" (lol) dance DBSK's "Mirotic" These are the "cool" kids among the second year boys, or some of them anyway. In Korea, this also means they're the smart kids haha, so I know these boys a little better, since they can actually talk to me. They also get interviewed by the MC, another student, at the end haha.
Mini-DBSK
Tomorrow is Sports Day! Super excited ;D
I'll make REAL posts...eventually. I have a lot of pictures/videos!
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Oh wait, duh.
Discovered on tumblr.
2pm's new concept is based on:
"Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Obviously."
-Incredibly observant person
....
OF COURSE IT IS. Suddenly it all makes sense.
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
lol, I love the internet ;D
2pm's new concept is based on:
"Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Obviously."
-Incredibly observant person
....
OF COURSE IT IS. Suddenly it all makes sense.
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
lol, I love the internet ;D
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
It's 2pm! ...actually it's 7:42....
Well, 2pm has a new mini-album and single, so everything else is pretty much irrelevant...*cough* XDD
The music video haha, at first I was like: WTF? WHAT IS THIS?
but now I love it lolol. ESPECIALLY the lulzy choreography and raccoon guyliner XDD
Yeah ;D
Lol, and i kept thinking while watching it "Waa~ Junho, look how important you are now!"
But yeah...if you want to see futuristic....construction workers...or something...
Military futurism....coal miners in the future...ON INVISIBLE TREADMILLS.... i dunno LOL
2PM - I'll Be Back
Anyway, as a whole, their new album is AWESOME. X3 Must buy it when it comes out...and after i find a music store in cheongju ;D
The music video haha, at first I was like: WTF? WHAT IS THIS?
but now I love it lolol. ESPECIALLY the lulzy choreography and raccoon guyliner XDD
Yeah ;D
Lol, and i kept thinking while watching it "Waa~ Junho, look how important you are now!"
But yeah...if you want to see futuristic....construction workers...or something...
Military futurism....coal miners in the future...ON INVISIBLE TREADMILLS.... i dunno LOL
2PM - I'll Be Back
Anyway, as a whole, their new album is AWESOME. X3 Must buy it when it comes out...and after i find a music store in cheongju ;D
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Pics + Videos Update!
More pictures! These are pics from October so far (Also some from the end of september - Chuseok)
Main Points:
Chuseok trip to Sandang Sanseong: the fortress in Cheongju. It was a beautiful day and we could see great views of the city from there. I went with other Epik teachers in Cheongju ;D
Trip to Chungju for the Martial Arts Festival: but...it was raining. -___- Still, we saw some cool things :D Went with Epik teachers
School trip to Daejeon Science Museum: Went with classes 5 and 6 from the first grade. Putting the pics of my students from that trip into the "students" folder instead of here ;D
Random pics of school/Cheongju: Including Teachers' Sports Day haha. After the first day of midterms, all the teachers got together to eat, drink, and play kickball XD Fun times.
Pics!
Only a few more pics of my students from the fieldtrip in this album:
My students
VIDEOS! :D
Funniest Pencil Case EVER
Exactly what it sounds like. XD
Between classes, Girls
Another pencil case and attempted interviewing lol
Boys Playing Badminton After School
Lately all the students have been playing a lot of badminton, so I finally decided to take a video
Girls Playing Badminton After School
I also discovered where the girls play badminton!
Teachers Playing Kickball XD
Lol, My team was "batting"
Lining up in the morning for the field trip
The classes line up together. I decided to wander amongst them and try to get them to talk to me lol
Counting Off Attendance
MY FAVORITE VIDEO. lol, I love this. This was a second attempt though, usually on the first try, sonmeone wouldn't be paying attention and they'd have to start over XD
WOO. BIG UPDATE. I should do this all gradually, so I don't have to do such big uploads everytime @___@
Main Points:
Chuseok trip to Sandang Sanseong: the fortress in Cheongju. It was a beautiful day and we could see great views of the city from there. I went with other Epik teachers in Cheongju ;D
Trip to Chungju for the Martial Arts Festival: but...it was raining. -___- Still, we saw some cool things :D Went with Epik teachers
School trip to Daejeon Science Museum: Went with classes 5 and 6 from the first grade. Putting the pics of my students from that trip into the "students" folder instead of here ;D
Random pics of school/Cheongju: Including Teachers' Sports Day haha. After the first day of midterms, all the teachers got together to eat, drink, and play kickball XD Fun times.
Pics!
Only a few more pics of my students from the fieldtrip in this album:
My students
VIDEOS! :D
Funniest Pencil Case EVER
Exactly what it sounds like. XD
Between classes, Girls
Another pencil case and attempted interviewing lol
Boys Playing Badminton After School
Lately all the students have been playing a lot of badminton, so I finally decided to take a video
Girls Playing Badminton After School
I also discovered where the girls play badminton!
Teachers Playing Kickball XD
Lol, My team was "batting"
Lining up in the morning for the field trip
The classes line up together. I decided to wander amongst them and try to get them to talk to me lol
Counting Off Attendance
MY FAVORITE VIDEO. lol, I love this. This was a second attempt though, usually on the first try, sonmeone wouldn't be paying attention and they'd have to start over XD
WOO. BIG UPDATE. I should do this all gradually, so I don't have to do such big uploads everytime @___@
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Korean student vs. American student (a few points)
Hmmm....so i wrote this yesterday during my extra class but didn't post it...I think i was gonna add more, but i'm lazy lol. So this was in real-time when i wrote it yesterday!
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wow, so i gave my kids free study time for the second hour of my extra class, and guess what....they're ACTUALLY studying...it's amazing. They're silent except for some quiet talking, but i can hear them, and they're totally talking about some math problems. I mean, I knew that the kids here were different than at home, but i'm still surprised at times.... They're just such good kids for the most part o____o
Another example: I have to cross a crosswalk to get to school in the morning and it's one of the only crosswalks i've ever seen in korea that has a button to push when you want to cross the street. So I was walking up towards it one morning, and I could see that it was currently letting people cross, so i was a bit irked that I missed the crossing by only that much, but there was a group of my boy students who were crossing as i was walking up, and they looked back and saw me approaching the crosswalk, so they pushed the button for me as they got to the other side :D How nice!! I could tell because when the button has been pushed, they light up on both sides of the street. Anyway that just made my morning and i wasn't mad about missing the light anymore lol. I just feel like that's something that would never happen in America :P
Also my students are always giving me food/candy. One time this girl gave me a Chupa Chup lollipop and another time this girl gave me a full on chestnut. XD It was still hot when she gave it to me. And there was another time when I was waiting at the bus stop by my school to go downtown. This was on a Saturday and the saturday school had just got out, so the area was swarming with my students >.< I didn't realize that was the worst possible time to try to bus anywhere (all the schools were getting out, the bus was PACKED). Anyway, I was at the stop and some of my boy students also came to wait for busses. They'd bought crackers at the mart and one of them offered me one. But it's not just that they offer it to you, it was the way they offer things that makes it so nice. Cause in Korea you give things to people higher ranking than you (age, job, school year, etc) with two hands and it's very respectful and all that. So i'm always just extra touched when they offer me things X3
Plus they're always saying hi and bowing to teachers....actually they're really supposed to say "hi" to teachers, so many times i see a kid running by either being really late or in some kind of pain and he's always yelling out "annyeonghasaeyo-annyeonghasaeyo-annyeonghasaeyo!!" as he's going by a few teachers lol. It's pretty much second nature to them.
I dunno, students in korea are just a lot more mindful and respectful I suppose. Not that the students in America are really that bad, though some are, but the ones are...in such a way that it really stands out and is noticeable.
They're just so darn cute! lol it's great. :3
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wow, so i gave my kids free study time for the second hour of my extra class, and guess what....they're ACTUALLY studying...it's amazing. They're silent except for some quiet talking, but i can hear them, and they're totally talking about some math problems. I mean, I knew that the kids here were different than at home, but i'm still surprised at times.... They're just such good kids for the most part o____o
Another example: I have to cross a crosswalk to get to school in the morning and it's one of the only crosswalks i've ever seen in korea that has a button to push when you want to cross the street. So I was walking up towards it one morning, and I could see that it was currently letting people cross, so i was a bit irked that I missed the crossing by only that much, but there was a group of my boy students who were crossing as i was walking up, and they looked back and saw me approaching the crosswalk, so they pushed the button for me as they got to the other side :D How nice!! I could tell because when the button has been pushed, they light up on both sides of the street. Anyway that just made my morning and i wasn't mad about missing the light anymore lol. I just feel like that's something that would never happen in America :P
Also my students are always giving me food/candy. One time this girl gave me a Chupa Chup lollipop and another time this girl gave me a full on chestnut. XD It was still hot when she gave it to me. And there was another time when I was waiting at the bus stop by my school to go downtown. This was on a Saturday and the saturday school had just got out, so the area was swarming with my students >.< I didn't realize that was the worst possible time to try to bus anywhere (all the schools were getting out, the bus was PACKED). Anyway, I was at the stop and some of my boy students also came to wait for busses. They'd bought crackers at the mart and one of them offered me one. But it's not just that they offer it to you, it was the way they offer things that makes it so nice. Cause in Korea you give things to people higher ranking than you (age, job, school year, etc) with two hands and it's very respectful and all that. So i'm always just extra touched when they offer me things X3
Plus they're always saying hi and bowing to teachers....actually they're really supposed to say "hi" to teachers, so many times i see a kid running by either being really late or in some kind of pain and he's always yelling out "annyeonghasaeyo-annyeonghasaeyo-annyeonghasaeyo!!" as he's going by a few teachers lol. It's pretty much second nature to them.
I dunno, students in korea are just a lot more mindful and respectful I suppose. Not that the students in America are really that bad, though some are, but the ones are...in such a way that it really stands out and is noticeable.
They're just so darn cute! lol it's great. :3
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Music Time!
Today I ran into Duck Boy, and he jumped right into "HiByeHiByeHiBye" Before I even knew he was there.....he's learning...
Anyway...I've decided to do a video spam of all the songs that have invaded my life since I got to Korea...most of them are songs I heard after I got here, some are songs that I'd heard before but due to hearing them a million times after arriving they really remind me of my first month-ish here.
These are in no particular order, EXCEPT FOR THE FIRST ONE because I heard this song...I think everyday for a week at least after I got here and it will forever remind me of the beginning of my stay in Korea.
MC Mong - 죽을 만큼 아파서 (Sick (?) enough to die)
Uhm....also this song is amazing. :P
FT Island - 사랑 사랑 사랑(Love Love Love)
omg, I love love love this song....and yes I partially meant to do that, but mostly I actually love love love this song. <3 Plus the video's pretty cool~ SE7EN - Better Together
catchy~
휘성 - 결혼까지 생각했어 (I even thought of marriage)
Everytime I hear this song I want to sing along XD
Taeyang - I'll Be There
Like...zombie...vampires...or something XD But I love the song....also I love taeyang.
Sistar - 가식걸
I really didn't like their first song...but this one gets stuck in my head >.< Big Bang - Beautiful Hangover
It's in Japanese....oh well~ I love this video...mysterious random moving circles haha
Supreme Team ft. 영준 - 왜 (why)
Newer addition to my constant soundtrack
SE7EN - Digital Bounce
I didn't like this song much at first, but it's really grown on me...I love when TOP comes in XD
Rainbow - A
I dunno if this is the group that's supposed to have the really really young girls in it or not, but this song is caaaatchy.
G.NA - 꺼져 줄게 잘 살아 (I'll back off so you can live)
Great song~
DJ DOC - 난이런 사람이야 (I'm a guy like this)
This song is pretty new, but already I really like it....I was iffy at first, but it got viciously stuck in my head:
Miss A - Breathe
Of course, I really reallllly liked their first song, but since I'd known about it before i came here, I'll post this version instead....which is amaaaazing. ;D
Miss A - Bad Girl Good Girl...?
I caught this on tv when it was happening. Chuseok special XD
Now that i've gone completely overboard...*cough* I'm done! :D
Aaaand 2pm is making a comeback Oct 15 X3 Soooo, that's exciting X3333 Also Big Bang is supposed to be making a return to Korea sometime soon...this month? something....in other words, this month in music = YES.
Anyway...I've decided to do a video spam of all the songs that have invaded my life since I got to Korea...most of them are songs I heard after I got here, some are songs that I'd heard before but due to hearing them a million times after arriving they really remind me of my first month-ish here.
These are in no particular order, EXCEPT FOR THE FIRST ONE because I heard this song...I think everyday for a week at least after I got here and it will forever remind me of the beginning of my stay in Korea.
MC Mong - 죽을 만큼 아파서 (Sick (?) enough to die)
Uhm....also this song is amazing. :P
FT Island - 사랑 사랑 사랑(Love Love Love)
omg, I love love love this song....and yes I partially meant to do that, but mostly I actually love love love this song. <3 Plus the video's pretty cool~ SE7EN - Better Together
catchy~
휘성 - 결혼까지 생각했어 (I even thought of marriage)
Everytime I hear this song I want to sing along XD
Taeyang - I'll Be There
Like...zombie...vampires...or something XD But I love the song....also I love taeyang.
Sistar - 가식걸
I really didn't like their first song...but this one gets stuck in my head >.< Big Bang - Beautiful Hangover
It's in Japanese....oh well~ I love this video...mysterious random moving circles haha
Supreme Team ft. 영준 - 왜 (why)
Newer addition to my constant soundtrack
SE7EN - Digital Bounce
I didn't like this song much at first, but it's really grown on me...I love when TOP comes in XD
Rainbow - A
I dunno if this is the group that's supposed to have the really really young girls in it or not, but this song is caaaatchy.
G.NA - 꺼져 줄게 잘 살아 (I'll back off so you can live)
Great song~
DJ DOC - 난이런 사람이야 (I'm a guy like this)
This song is pretty new, but already I really like it....I was iffy at first, but it got viciously stuck in my head:
Miss A - Breathe
Of course, I really reallllly liked their first song, but since I'd known about it before i came here, I'll post this version instead....which is amaaaazing. ;D
Miss A - Bad Girl Good Girl...?
I caught this on tv when it was happening. Chuseok special XD
Now that i've gone completely overboard...*cough* I'm done! :D
Aaaand 2pm is making a comeback Oct 15 X3 Soooo, that's exciting X3333 Also Big Bang is supposed to be making a return to Korea sometime soon...this month? something....in other words, this month in music = YES.
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