Bfast: fried eggs, rice, lettuce, OJ ---> kind of a Korean-ized Ken's SUMO for those of you who get my drift...

Lunch: kim chi, rice, some kind of root vegetable, some bizarre but yummyish fish, a good winter soup with lots of spices and some kind of slimy rice cake things and meat-filled dumplings

dinner: I made a "pancake" with the Korean pancake mix the previous teacher left... and some shrimps. Random, I know.

Today I taught 4 classes. One 4th grade, and three 5th grade. It went well. I felt really confident today, and wasn't afraid to take charge and discipline the kids. They are soooooooo noisy, and I refused to talk or continue if they were not being silent and paying attention. I will need to establish this as a norm... it's obvious they have been subjected to waaaaaaaaaay too lax teaching methods for too too long, and it's not gonna fly with me. So, we have much work to do :)

I love the students though, and I adore their little voices trying to speak English. It's so cute. The "r" sound is very difficult for Koreans, because they do not have this sound in Korean. So, we work a lot on that. It's been fun making them roar like lions to practice.

That little boy I talked about... he is spending more and more time at my desk. Although I love having him there, I was like "Yoon Jin isn't he supposed to be in class right now???!" She said "probably". I was like hmmm... do I tell him to go to class, or is he allowed to just wander? We'll see. I will cross that bridge when I come to it (probably tomorrow ha).

At lunch I tried using the calling card, but it wouldn't work on that phone either. BUMMER!!! One of my students came in and when I explained the situation, she said she would meet me after school and go to the phone booth with me to try it out.

I knew it wouldn't work, but this girl is a helper by nature. I didn't want to take that opportunity away from her... so she met me after school was done and we walked to the phone booth across the street. It didn't work, but I asked her to explain the country codes, etc. (they are printed in Korean on the inside of the telephone booth). We had a great chat as we walked together. She lives up a hill across the street from my apartment. I don't want to be a creeper, but I would love to walk with her everyday. I LOVE spending one on one time with my students - they are such neat people, and I want to get to know them all as individuals!