I haven’t updated in forever. I’m a bad blogger and probably always will be. I should be teaching a grade three class right now, but it has been cancelled because there is a “sports day” on May 20th that the kids need to practice for. They practice standing in a straight line, tug-o-war, and dancing. I’m not sure why they pay me an OK amount of money to come over here to supposedly teach English, only to let me sit at my desk while they tug-o-war. Whatever. It’s probably better to be a pro tug-o-warer than it is a pro English speaker, anyway.
So Korea has been awesome since my last post. The mountains here are so green and packed with vegitation that I can hardly look at them. I’d take a photo but it wouldn’t capture it correctly. These mountains are awesome and beautiful and everywhere, and I’m pumped I get live in a place that is this stunning.
My sister is visiting right now. We’ve been doing the tourist thing a little bit which is fun because I haven’t hit up too many tourist attractions since I’ve been here. We have been up the coast of Gangwondo and to a couple cities in Gyeongsanbukdo, to Seoul. She is here until the end of May and we’ll probably travel farther south before she leaves, I hope.
My Korean is progressing. I’d like to be better but I think I’m doing an OK job. I get by. I got my haircut last week and had a 5 or 6 min conversation with the hairdresser. We talked about simple things like where I worked, where I was from, and who my sister (who was with me at the time) was. It felt good and pretty weird to be talking only in Korean. Little things like this make me want to study more and get better. Baby steps.
Yesterday was my birthday. The teachers from my school threw me a little party. They bought me chocolate cake and sang an awkard happy birthday that was a 1/3 in English and 2/3 in Korean. We popped confetti poppers and there were sparklers. Tomorow they’re taking me out for dinner where we will eat Korean BBQ and drink soju, and I will complain about being OLD.
