Apologies for the lack of postings. I decided to tame the wild LSAT beast which has decided to follow me 7,000 miles to South Korea. Ew. Nevertheless, when I'm not teaching, I'm attempting to slave away because I refuse to let it get me down. Luckily, there are some other English teachers who I can complain about the idiotic differences between 'some' and 'many.' Anyway, come December 7, I'm pretty sure this will be me:
In other news, I've had a revelations since I've been here. Korea is not much different than the US (save for being more technologically advanced, less random mass murders, and a complete lack of ethnic food variety). I find myself missing the US quite a lot, but on Monday I went to "New York, I Love You" to get a piece of American cinema to quench my thirst (not Shia's sexiest moment). Students still don't care about school, and get upset when they fail a test; my female co-teachers still bitch with me about men; and everyone loves Obama -- I could just as well be at home. I've even become accustomed to not knowing what everyone is saying, and I've gotten a lot more laid back with, say, that one taxi driver who decides to take advantage of me by driving the most roundabout way home simply because I don't speak Korean.
Swine flu has taken of South Korea. Everyone is paranoid. Have a headache? Put on a mask. Have some gas? Put on a mask. Have a fever of 99.0? Better go home. My country school closed down two weeks ago because half of the students (see: 15 kids) had fevers. The next week I get there and my co-teacher hands me a mask and says: "You have to wear this. All the kids are infected, so don't get too close." Obviously, I couldn't resist though, and spent my entire lunch having girltalk with my first grade girls. I'm definitely going to get sick. Speaking of, I've absolutely fallen in love with my students. It's only November and I'm already getting sad about eventually leaving them.
Annnnyyyyywayy, last week I went to Seoul/Incheon for Halloween and dressed up at 2ne1 -- a really popular K-pop all-girls band. (Note: they do not celebrate Halloween in Korea. So when a group of 6 Westerns were walking through the street, we got quite a few strange looks).
My students love it, and we've danced to "I Don't Care" (their most popular song) at the beginning of each class week just to celebrate my fabulous Halloween costume.
The next day, we went to the DMZ. Because I mean, cmon, there is nothing scarier than North Korea/Kim Jong Il. It was a lot sadder than I had anticipated though, so that was somewhat of a debbie downer.
Well, Ken says that he sent out a cord for my camera so soon I'll have fabulous pictures from my time here for everyone to see!
In the mean time, go out and find yourself some dakgalbi, my new favorite food. AND... ITS SPICY!
Love/miss you all,
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