ladies night in itaewon: every thursday night in one of the forgien districts a bunch of bars have ladies night. what that means is you go in drink as much as you want and leave...without spending anything at all. i think between the bus there, drinking all night, chicken on a stick and the cab home i spent about 3 dollars. i love korea
i also went to a brewery, actually its from canada, big rock brewery in alberta. the beer was more expensive there but much tastier than the cass that ive been drinking.
the post office: canadian post office workers have a lot to learn. here they will pack your parcels, bubble wrap and everything, and because this is a culture focused on packing alot into little spaces they really do it best. they are so nice too, ive made a few visits already sending post cards to all of you....and its super cheap! so expect many
so teaching has been going well, but seeing as im not exactly trained in english or in other areas that im teaching in...there have been a few hiccups.
i had to teach how to talk about the weather. tomorrow it will be .....in....... today it is ..... in ..... and i had a unlabelled map of europe i was dealing with. i may have made up most of the countries, and overlapped a few, but they dont really know that - i hope!
english was not my forte back in middle school. and i seem to have forgotten about some things, or perhaps never learned it. i have an advanced class that is learning about grammar and tenses etc. the lesson was on gerunds. adding a ing onto a adjective or something to make it a noun. i still dont really understand it....and i was prouncing it g-rund. not a ger-rund as it is supposed to be called. so my bad on that one
i mentioned about the valentines day and white day. well we went out on valentines day to make some pottery - super fun - and then shopped and grabbed some dinner. we ended up at a little italian resturant and no joke along one side of the wall sat the girls....and the other the boys. there was about 20 couples lined up in a row. and all the boys had their pretty chocolates wrapped up with them. being in a relationship is very important here. and couple centered holidays are taken seiously aswell. one holiday that goes along with v-day and white day is black day. this is for the single ladies, and on this day you are supposed to go out and eat black bean noodles because you are alone. sounds very depressing to me. i suppose they should play beyonces song as they are drowning themselves in noodles
this past weekend jason mraz was in town. he was starting his asian part of his tour and i was begging people around the office if they wanted to come, but the only tickets left were the super expensive ones. the night before the concert my friend offered me a free ticket from her friend. we get to the concert and we were on the floor! it was amazing, about 10 people back from the stage, for free....jason mraz.....just amazing. if you look on his website he took some pictures from the stage. i can almost show you where my hand was.
after the concert i met up with some teachers in iteawon for bob marleys birthday party. it was good times. i stood out a little bit, expecially because i was singing jason mraz songs all night.
sunday i really wanted to find this art park i read about in a magazine here. so i took the 90 min subway ride. to the station i thought i had to get to looking for exit 4. i got there and the station had only exit 1 and 2. so i was a little lost. but i decided to wander around anyways. found the han river and took in the scenery.
we have about 11 new teachers - 9 foreign that just came in this and last week. its sad because all the teachers that ive just come to know are leaving but means more new friends at the same time. 4 of which are from western which is pretty sweet. we talk about the ceeps and weldon...its good times.
one culture tidbit for today is the clothing
they find it shocking when i wear a tank top around the office - apparently its very risky. but they have no problem wearing super small mini skirts around the office. very different from back home.
anyways thats it for now. i promise not to wait too long again! miss you all
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