Red Day/White Day
In Korea, there are two Valentines Days. Red Day is the 14 February. Here, all the girls buy the boys chocolates. Then there is White Day (14 March) where all the boys buy the girls candy. Admittedly, I would choose chocolate over candy... but I like the fact that both girls and boys get a special day. And, I did get some chockies too :D Great fun, everyone was hopped up on sugar all day!!
In other news, this week has flown by in a blur of fun activities, early morning skypes with South Africa and of course many classes!!
The Kids
A little update on who I am teaching. I teach a bunch of kids, ranging from age 5 (aka my seedbed starters) to about12 (my Sprout 3's). Mostly, the students here are very well behaved and sooo honest (they will come and tell you when there homework is not complete). Of course, there are one or two who are a little bit naughty, but that's normal.
My seedbed class is one of my more interesting classes, made up of four little girls. All four of them are little princesses and dress accordingly (amazing hair accessories, shoes and a tiara every now and then). Sooo, seedbed English level you say? Um, I am teaching them the alphabet. So, I don't understand them, they barely understand me... about the only thing we have common ground on is the Hello-Goodbye song where we all gather around and sing and dance. That song is what spiked their latest fascination which is to lick my hand goodbye. I think my first reaction was too exciting for them (it was quite gross), so they may be attempting to reenact that...
Other than classes, we had a fun company night last night- we all went bowling!! And, those who know me know my feelings towards bowling (my lack of skill and high level of competitiveness has generally kind of ended up in snot en trane every time I play). Buuuut, I will say, I really had fun last night! Yes, my team would have won had I been selected for a different team, but they helped me reach the highest score I have ever had (in my extensive history of three games prior to this one)... After bowling we headed off to Corona and had a few drinks. Here, I met another South African- this time FROM MOSSEL BAY!!! So, yes, Gumi is officially Little South Africa :D
Heading off to Cheongju on Saturday morning to meet up with Briony for the weekend (sooooo excited)! So, more adventures and catching up to be had :)
Enough for now, pretty sure you peeps have lives to get to :P
In Korea, there are two Valentines Days. Red Day is the 14 February. Here, all the girls buy the boys chocolates. Then there is White Day (14 March) where all the boys buy the girls candy. Admittedly, I would choose chocolate over candy... but I like the fact that both girls and boys get a special day. And, I did get some chockies too :D Great fun, everyone was hopped up on sugar all day!!
In other news, this week has flown by in a blur of fun activities, early morning skypes with South Africa and of course many classes!!
The Kids
A little update on who I am teaching. I teach a bunch of kids, ranging from age 5 (aka my seedbed starters) to about12 (my Sprout 3's). Mostly, the students here are very well behaved and sooo honest (they will come and tell you when there homework is not complete). Of course, there are one or two who are a little bit naughty, but that's normal.
My seedbed class is one of my more interesting classes, made up of four little girls. All four of them are little princesses and dress accordingly (amazing hair accessories, shoes and a tiara every now and then). Sooo, seedbed English level you say? Um, I am teaching them the alphabet. So, I don't understand them, they barely understand me... about the only thing we have common ground on is the Hello-Goodbye song where we all gather around and sing and dance. That song is what spiked their latest fascination which is to lick my hand goodbye. I think my first reaction was too exciting for them (it was quite gross), so they may be attempting to reenact that...
Other than classes, we had a fun company night last night- we all went bowling!! And, those who know me know my feelings towards bowling (my lack of skill and high level of competitiveness has generally kind of ended up in snot en trane every time I play). Buuuut, I will say, I really had fun last night! Yes, my team would have won had I been selected for a different team, but they helped me reach the highest score I have ever had (in my extensive history of three games prior to this one)... After bowling we headed off to Corona and had a few drinks. Here, I met another South African- this time FROM MOSSEL BAY!!! So, yes, Gumi is officially Little South Africa :D
Heading off to Cheongju on Saturday morning to meet up with Briony for the weekend (sooooo excited)! So, more adventures and catching up to be had :)
Enough for now, pretty sure you peeps have lives to get to :P
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