Diversity

So I never thought about it before I came here but... Korea is filled with Koreans. Korean food, music, people, everything. I like the way Koreans think more so than Americans, i think it's closer to how I think. But I miss seeing other people sometimes. I haven't been annoyed being stared at all the time, sometimes I wish they wouldn't but I understand especially in my area I might be the first foreigner they've ever seen. I grew up seeing international people, having ELL in my classes and stuff. Never thought the rest of the world is just one ethncity. Kinda weird thinking that you could grow up with ppl that all looked, thought and acted like you. Either way I won't be surprised if Korea takes over the worlld. I mean they make all kindsa stuff from nothing. No resources, no space and thy have a ton of ppl who are dedicated workers...just saying.
I think I could stay in Korea for a long time if 1.) I put more effort into actually learning Korean 2.) I found a good place to Salsa 3.) Could find a place close by tht had music that I miss like reggae/soca stuff 4.) Got more connected with friends.
I'll def com back if I get a chance. I can't believe I'm thinking about home already but it's mostly cuz of school. Tryin to get that together is a headache! There's still so much that I want to see and do! I haven't even gotten to go on a date with a real Korean LOL. 6 moreweekends and only 2 that don't have anything planned. I gotten make it back to Daegu to buy stuff I want and see friends, I wanted to go to Seoul to see the kids I used to tutor but getting i contact with them is proving more difficult than I thought. Anyway I'm procrastinating from writing my lesson plans for my open class next week. I gotta turn it in tomorrow and do my lesson plans a week in advanced. I think they caught on that I'm slacking. i think I forgot to turn in a few days of plans when the printer was broken. Not to mention i kinda wing it a lot. I know I'm not the best teacher, I just hate having to come up with new stuff every day with out having a goal to work toward. Like if I knew what they wanted to teach or learn it'd be easier. Oh well.

Lotte weekend

My plans for Everland got canceled so Friday on the bus home I talked to Gina nd decided to go to Lotte World with her. Had half hour to grab stuff and get a taxi to the train to Cheonan. It was miserable, I was hungry, tired, had a headache from all the tunnes and pressure changes. longest ride ever. Finally got there ate and Natassia told me she doesn't turn on her heat! It was so cold, i was on the cold floor, couldn't sleep. Got up to catch our 9:30 bus which never came apparenty it was broken. The ticket lady said another one was coming at 10:15 so we got breakfast came back at 10 saw a bus pullin off and a lady told us that was our bus. N flipped out at the ticket lady but she wouldn't change our tickets or understand English. An hour of fighting and a few people tryin to help we finally got on a diff bus that was also half hour late, took the 2 hour ride to Seoul but realized Gina and them were at a diff station. It took another 20 min to figure out wherethey were and how to get there. But i'm gret wit maps so we finally got there and still couldn't find them, went to Lotte World ate, they came and met us. We had a few hours of fun. They had rides like at cear Point which was awesome, power tower, max air stuff like that. It was like a mini Disney too. Went back on the bus slept on the cold floor left around 12 stood for 3 hours to Gumi, made a Korean friend though. Met up wit Keitha took a nice hot shower felt better, went shoppin at the store on post they were out of Swiffers! So mad but got some american candy and dish soap at least. Hang out ate wit a few friends went to Norebong, got back to Keitha's late, ate chicken yum slept woke up early again to make it home but called off work cuz i didn't feel good, rested and chilled all day. Nothin I cooked came out rite though so I'm soo lookin forward to Korean lunch tomorrow! I'm going back to bed!

Just knowing and Good Girls

Just sayin: You can find good girls in the club. You won't see that side of them there because they purposefully left the good girl part at home. So believing you found love at the club is balogna. If u meet someone wh is willing to see u again outside of the club and you happen to work things out then, then great. Don't go expecting to find a girlfriend or boyfriend or someone to care about. Don't assume the person you saw at the club who u also see the next day helping the old people is a fake. Good people like to let go, dance, go out, have a good time too.
Me? I like to go out, I love topeople watch, i love to dance, I love the game, But i'm also super logical which means I don't get drunk, I don't give out my number and I don't make many bad decisions so if you see me at the club you prolly shouldn't talk to me LOL

N E Way..

I found an old break up convo today and another really sweet convo from another bf last week. I'm glad I save these things cuz it not only reminds/teaches me about me but always makes me think. In most of my emotional conversations I've had with people about relationships I've always just said "I just know. I don't know why but I do." It used to worry me because I beleved my feeling of knowing wether or not that boy was rite for me at that time in my life and didn't know why but it has always seemed to be right. Only in my last relationship did I realize that feeling was the Holy Spirit. I'm so glad that's my logic and I'm not a highly emotional person. I know what's right and wrong and I make mistakes or choose things knowing how they'll turn out majority of the time. I hav't had many surprises when it comes to relationships. I've always seen things coming. I've dated knowing things wouldn't worked out. Does that make me a bad person? Cuz I also feel like I made them a better person and it was fun while it lasted. I hate to hurt people but is it okthat I get attached and let ppl get atached to me knowing that in the end we're not going to be serios? I make a point to do my best to better the ppl who let me in their lives, especially if they care about me. Idk just thinkn out loud

My Students

I was looking at the pics I took of my kids when I first got here and I realized I'ma miss the lil boogers when I leave. I'm always happy to see them after the weekend and on the playground. They're so fun and cute and crazy. I won't missall the screaming, running, jumping and general phyconess of class but I doubt I'll remember that after a month or two. I won't forget the kids though. We played a game like jepardy so they had to say a category and then 100-500 level. Billy kept saying 2 hungry instead of 2 hundred and it was so cute. Jerry pointed it out of course and him and Mary made fun of him but he's such a ll trooper he kept going. Poor thing gets made fun of all the time cuz he's little but he tries so hard when he gets a chance. I wish I could tutor all these kids individually. Hoonki started tellin me jokes to start off our convos. He was tellin me Korean jokes and translated them. So they didn't really make much sense but I laughed and liked his effort. Today he told me ths one: What does a penguin drive? Alaska. I was laughin so hard! First cuz it's funny, second cuz only in Asia does Ka = car. I love Korea.
I started teaching them tongue twisters too. I figured it's a good way to bump up pronounciation and it's just funny. Anyway tomorrow is Peppero Day and I'm so excited, a whole holiday with no other purpose then to give candy. Greatness. Now if only Koreans could discover sugar and use it like Americans....

All this for groceries?

Today was a long day. Woke up with a sore throat again. Got my lesson plans together and headed to the bank to get a new bank card. Luckily the lady remembered me from yesterday cuz I’m not sure how I would explain that I needed a new card. Got to school had an ok lunch. Had some kind of seaweed mixed with strips of pear, kinda made me sick and the thick wet seaweed with chilli, which always makes me a lil nauseous. But the mini sausage, fish, rice and beef stew thing was good. The printer is still broken so I had to change my lesson a lil. I decided to do review and play some online games. It worked great. My kids paired up and answered questions about colors, numbers, clothes, animals, jobs.. all kinds of stuff. My 5^th graders were supposed to finish their research on the first Thanksgiving but I left the game up from the earlier class and they saw it so I found a harder one and let them play. It was the most involved they’ve been all year. They didn’t know a lot of the job questions because they were really hard but I have more things to teach them now and if I use the game as motivation I think they’ll pay attention. One of the kids even said on his way out “Fun class, teacher”. I got to play with the little girls outside before going to catch the bus. Then went home for a few mins to change bags then went downtown, met up wit Dan and Joyanna, my favorite Pohang ppl (outside of the ppl I came wit) we had shabu shabu (i think that's what it's call) it's chicken, chilli, cheese, greens and rice. Also got hutdug awesome street food thing like a doughnut/pancake with melted honey/maple syrupy stuff inside...soo good. And dunkin doughnuts cookies and cream latte also yummy. They went grocery shopping with me at HomePlus! I was so happy cuz I hate food shopping. They were such a big help, I basically walked and they put stuff in the basket (that Dan carried I love him! such a sweetie). Walked back to get the bus, finally got home put everything away and Marshal called. I went over there to work on Dr.Koh class stuff and hang out wit Marshal since he'll be gone to Jeju, lucky bum. Finally got home around 1 to sleep.

Korean Doctor

So I've been feeling like crap the last few days. Sore throat, same thing every year. The weather changes and I get strep or something. Anyway, I felt like my blood was made of ice. I couldn't get warm and my heated floors decided to stop working. I drank an entire pot of tea and it wasn't helping. I was also starving. Luckily Jenine came over and took me out to eat. We had wanted to try the smiley face french fries that this place had so we walked down there and ordered the fries and some chicken. The chicken wings looked sweet but smelled spicy. Seeing as I could barely eat, i wasn't in the mood for spicy anything. Jenine tried it and said "It's got a lil kick to it but you should try it". Her face was starting to turn red and she had drank half her water after one bite. I knew she was a liar but I tried a piece anyway. IT WAS HOT! We tried not to show that we were dieing but both of our mouths were on fire. I could only eat 5 wings. Jenine had 3, we went through a bottle of Cider, 4 glasses of water, all the fries and two bowls of the cereal snack things to try and calm the burn. The Korean couple next to us ordered the same thing and they were chuggin beer and tearing up after their first piece. That made us feel really good. Walked home in the cold. My body was still freezing even though my mouth was on fire. I took a hot shower to relax and it helped me breath but the hot water touched my lips and almost made me cry again!
That nite was horrible. I was sore all over, weak, so tired but couldn't sleep. I was a lil scare that my throat was so swollen that I'd choke and die. Iknow awful thing to think but i felt bad. The old man next door started making so much noise I couldn't sleep either. Finally fell asleep only to wake up around 5 and every hour to half hour after that, tossing, just couldn't get comfortable. I couldn't stand being in bed any more so I got up had more tea, texted my coteacher that I needed to see a doc, cleaned up, layed around, fell back to sleep and got ready to go. The pain killers kicked in by the time I left so I was in an ok but tired mood through school. Couldn't really talk much, thank God for my coteacher she was such a big help. Then we walked to a clinic by my house. The doc saw me rite away looked at my throat for 2 seconds, said I was weak all over and I said yes he said ok you have tonsilitis, told me to take some pills 3x a day and that was it. The whole thing took 5 min. But then my coteacher said that i had to get a shot. She saw my face andsaid "you're an adult, it's just a shot". So we waited until one of the nurses brought me in a lil room. She pointed to her butt and looked at me. I said "In my bum!" She nodded her head and motioned for me to lower my pants. I said "in my arm?" She shook her head. So I unbuttoned my pants, she pulled them down just a few inches and shot me in my hip then slapped me a few times, i started laughing, then the two nurses started laughing. Went next door, got my meds, three days worth and home I went. Now I'm watching modern family, made rice and tuna but it wasn't satisfying so I ate some Pepero and grape juice but nothing I've eaten lately has made me happy. My body is craving something and I can't figure out what it is.