Ahhh, sunshine!
Old and new friends!
I got two new 5-year-old boys in one of my elementary classes yesterday (keeping in mind that this means 4-years old North American years). They have absolutely no English. One of them spent the class screaming and hitting me, while the other was eating his sticker board paper, and giggling uncontrollably at my attempts to communicate with him, miming "are you hungry?" All the other kids in the class are 6-year-olds, and can speak sentences like, "Hello! My name is Flora. What's your name?" Oh dear.
Both yesterday and today, Alvin has tried to hold me hostage. He warmly embraces me, holds my hand, leads me to Mercury class. Then he closes the door and stands in front of it, arms crossed over his chest. It's one of the most adorable things ever. It makes me feel very loved, and successful as a teacher.
Both yesterday and today, Alvin has tried to hold me hostage. He warmly embraces me, holds my hand, leads me to Mercury class. Then he closes the door and stands in front of it, arms crossed over his chest. It's one of the most adorable things ever. It makes me feel very loved, and successful as a teacher.
Hongdae park on a Saturday night
I ended up having a most FABULOUS weekend. Saturday afternoon I met up with some current and past coworkers for lunch. I ran into my friend, Neil, too, so he joined us. Kelly, one of my old Korean coteachers, brought a new coworker of hers - a really cool girl that I hope to see more of! Anyways, it was such a carefree and leisurely day. After lunch we all went walking to the park and just hung out in the sunshine. The boys played soccer with some young Korean kids. Did I mention it was 16 degrees and sunny?! That's right - t-shirt and cardigan weather!! In the evening I met up with Stef for dinner in Seoul. Then we headed to a going away party, followed by some clubs in Hongdae. Hongdae is a very popular night-life area in Seoul. En route to the motown party, we found a great club/bar that reminded me so much of the places I love to go in Warsaw and Berlin. It was quite small, and had an open concept. I will definitely go back there. The motown party was great! They played all my requests that I had posted to the event page on Facebook. Wee! (Twist and Shout, The Name Game, and Rave On.) Some people from the going away thing ended up meeting us there later. It was a VERY late night indeed, and I ended up crashing in Seoul, at "Hunter Hotel". (THANKS!) Made my way back to Anyang Sunday afternoon, and was out and about to enjoy day two of sunshine and mild mild weather (17 degrees)! I took my book down to my favourite rock spot. Ahhh. So relaxing. And then I went to bed at 8pm. Haha
Motown with Elly and Stef
Farewell, Sivan!
The weather has cooled again. It's -1 this evening. The highs this week look to be just below 10 degrees.
I had the following conversation with a fruit vendor on Saturday.
Vendor: You are beautiful!
Me: Thank you.
V: What is your name?
M: Leah
V: How old are you?
M: Korean 26.
V: Ah, very good. Do you have a boyfriend?
M: No.
V: Are you Russian?
M: No, Canadian.
V: Ah, beautiful! You come back tomorrow?
I swear all middle-aged Korean men know the word "beautiful": cab drivers, vendors, men in the streets, at the gym, and the guy that collects the maintenance fees in my building....
Oh! LINDSAY IS COMING TO VISIT IN JUNE!!!!!! We have a weekend trip to Busan booked/planned, which I am super excited about. Yey!!!!!
Ok. Back to my tea and my book. Good night! xo
Sorry for the lack of pictures recently!
No comments:
Post a Comment