What I had for dinner tonight! I actually managed to use the phrase "This was a very good meal" in my garbled Korean. The woman replied, "I'm surprised you ate it all" in perfect English.
Blake on her Go-Cart!
Hi.
Tomorrows Friday! Its been a relatively normal week. Good weather here, pretty much sunny the entire time.
Nothing really new to talk about so I am just going to post some pictures.
Every English school has their own fleet of buses. Actually, every private school has their own buses as well (Tae Kwan Do, Math, etc.) If you don't have your own buses don't come to Korea okay? I said Okay?!
Today was my 'hell-day' so I came prepared for once in my life. For my one especially crazy class with 12 low-level high-energy students (coupled with a even lower-level teacher!) I brought pennies from Canada and explained in a very matter-of-fact voice that they were very valuable. It worked like I assumed - everytime any one of them acted up I simply stuck my hand in my pocket and shook the coins loudly (whilst playing a quick game of pocket pool!). Needless to say, they remained controlled, quiet, and attentive for most of the hour and it only cost me 12 cents. Hopefully it will work for 9 more months.
This is Grace. She is in another crazy class and is definitely the craziest one. She is a loud drama queen and the one who imitates me the best (she puts her hand in a fey gesture and says 'guys guys c'mon guys?' with my trademark high-pitched voice). She is also my favorite and I get very angry if any kid insults her (she usually just stares at them and glances over to me, as if to say, "what are you waiting for?". At this exact instant the 11 other kids were hiding and screaming under their desks as they didn't want their photos taken.
My morning class (Max, Selina, and Baby-Bird) was going fine until Baby-bird accidentally hit Max in the eye with a small book. Though it was obviously an accident (and I saw the whole thing) I tried to downplay it as Max is the one who was in the mental hospital only a couple of months ago. He didn't cry - but he didn't really react either; he just started to rub his eyes (even though only one got nicked) obsessively for about 7 minutes. It was scary.
Max is the cute one next to the crazy looking white guy. Baby-Bird is the worried looking one on the far left and Selina is the unimpressed-looking one.
I finally convinced Max to follow me into the hallway where I put a bit of cold water (on a tissue) so he could use that instead of his dirty fingers. Thankfully his mom was not hovering around outside like she does every week or she would have gone nuts (like mother, like son). Anyways, long story short Max started mumbling things in Korean and grinning wildly (he has 5 silver teeth!) for several minutes so I ended class early and gave Baby-Bird a head start out. I guess Max told his mom right after that Baby-Bird had attacked him and that I had basically cheered him on (when I first taught Max he told his mom that I made him memorise an entire book). Naturally his mother believed Max and has withdrawn him from our school. He will not be missed (he has also done this 4 times before I'm told).
These are warning posters in my school's elevators. They always amuse me. Maybe because the people look bad enough to have been drawn by me or maybe because Koreans love to use animals as their models. What would the captions be?
Bottom Left picture - "ha ha! He rushed to leave and now hes bloody, dead, and in hell!"
Bottom-Right picture: "Hurry everyone! Fire! Run up the stairs stupid! Up!"
So thats that. Its the weekend soon!
Very short video.
3 comments:
Ahh, I see now why you spent so much time looking for the "thundercats" theme song. Would have gone well with your go-cart adventure video - perhaps the theme from Knightrider instead?
FYI, I don't know if this is true or not... But regarding those crazy safety posters by the elevators, I read somewhere that a popular way to commit suicide in Korea is jumping into an open elevator shaft. Construction company workers often have "accidents" as then the family gets a large settlement. There you go, and knowing is half the battle.
When I see the name Baby Bird I think of Paul Sarone "Never look into the eyes of someone you kill, they will haunt you forever. I know."
I have to apologize for my early comment, I had the volume off on my computer and was thinking during your video, "oh man, this would be great with a cheesy soundtrack." So never mind, cheesy soundtrack accomplished, good for you.
P.S. I can't help but be reminded of Tom Hanks' character in "Big," when watching the video of you driving around the go-cart. Except that even Tom Hanks got laid in the movie. Ha ha ha. I'm a jerk.
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