life.

today is a day of desk warming. so i have no excuse not to post. but what is desk warming you ask? desk warming is a situation dreaded by every guest english teacher (GET) in a public school. it refers to a time when the teacher must go into school even though there is no teaching to be done. generally this happens during vacation time when the students are not in school. They have several weeks off in the winter and in the summer, but because EPIK mandates that we teachers only get 18 days vacation we have to come in and just hang out. Right now school is in deed in session, but it is a testing day so i have been her since nine am. at my desk. my new cell phone entertained me for a bit, but since it's not a smart phone, and it is korean it eventually just began to frustrate me. then i roamed the halls for face book for a while, and even spent some time on bbc news. however, facebook can only entertain for so long, and since i watch cnn international nonstop while i am in my tuna can apartment, bbc eventually lost it's appeal too. then i moved onto actual work. i did a bunch of research on different lesson topics, picked out my next four, and even made a power point for one.

so far my lessons have been:
introduction and an awesome game of human bingo
class rules and english names
greetings (hello/goodbye, i even included a beatles music video!)
hobbies

this get's through next week and part way into the following week.

not sure if i mentioned this, i teach 20 classes a week. 4 a day. i teach the entire 1st year class at an all boys high school. there are 10 classes total, so i see each class twice a week.

anyway, back on topic. desk warming. i was prepared for this, so i brought my own computer today (i do this every day actually) which means i can listen to music and work on a version of open office that is not in korean.

i did have a pleasant surprise come lunch time. i usually just chow down on rice in the school cafeteria because everything else is questionable and most likely meat of some kind. but today, the principal took all the female teachers out to lunch. it was nice. and i was very surprised to find that i actually enjoyed my food a lot. well it wasn't my food i should say. they are very into communal dinning experiences. the whole table is set with random things, and then each person gets some rice and some soup and then you mix together nibble on what ever you would like. i was weary at first because the outside of the restaurant was painted with happy pigs and cows so i assumed that it was all meat. inside though, at least on our table there wasn't meat to be found. all fish, and most of it was really good. minus the bones. and there was a DELICIOUS spicy tofu soup. at first i thought it was hard boiled egg and chicken, but the egg turned out to be extra soft tofu, and the chicken was a mushroom.

we came back from lunch, i tinkered with a ppt a little more and then decided i couldn't do it any more. and now im here.

blogging. how sad. although i do owe an update, so it's fair i guess.

little by little i manage to get more stuff for my place. it's starting to feel more like my own now. i finally got a clothing rack so i could hang up my clothes. and last night i went and bought two extra soft throw blankets that i plan to use to cover up the ugly comforter they gave me. haha.

this weekend im going to go get a fish! and maybe some plants. or maybe just a fish. only one living thing at a time. they have pink and blue gold fish here and they are super cheap. i think im going to name them kim and park. the most common korean surnames.

ok this post is already too wordy and long. im going to go back to work related stuff. maybe.