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Week 13 (May 22nd to May 28th) |
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Monday May 23rd, So now that the level tests are over, we have to mark all of these tests, which is huge pain in the butt. None of my kids failed (some came close), but apparently parents get upset if their kid scores under 80%. So guess what the solution is: we have to doctor the scores and the averages so that everything is over 80%. I can't believe that we actually pretend to be a school, because it's so clearly a business! It seems so weird to me that the parents can't handle knowing the truth about their children-- do they
really expect all of their children to be superstars? These kids are in for a rude awakening when they hit high school in Korea, because it's not uncommon for a high school student to be at school for more than 16 hours a day-- and hitting students is definitly
acceptable. The point of my rant is that now we all have a ton of extra work to do in altering all the scores, and then writing report cards for every student that we have. The stack on my desk is unbelievable right now. To add to the ridiculous amount of work we have to do, our school is having a day of open classes in the middle of June, and Sue wants our lesson plans for that day NOW. I won't be going home from work anytime soon tonight.
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Wednesday May 25th, Tonight was our band's first open mic night at Commune. We put together a set of five tunes, of pretty mixed genres (from Bob Marley to Cyndi Lauper), and just kind of went for it. It was quite the big hit with the crowd. The guy Greg who set up the open mic night wants us to play a gig on June 18 at an outdoor festival on the river with a couple of other bands, so one open mic night, and we're already getting gigs! That just kind of proves that there's really no music happening in Daegu, cause that certainly wouldn't have happened in Toronto. |
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Saturday May 28th, I was hanging out at my apartment this afternoon when Mike called me and invited me to lunch with one of his students. She's an older lady whose English is really bad, so she thought if she took Mike and some of his friends to lunch that she might get a better grade! We had samgyeopsal at the restaurant beside my apartment (Samgyeopsal is a bacon-like pig meat that,
like many meats here, is grilled right in front of you). The whole scenario was so Korean: a random woman taking a bunch of people she's never known out to lunch, and insisting on paying for everything! Not that I'm complaining or anything . . . Today was Evan's birthday, so first we had a jam at Mike's place, and then we headed downtown to party it up at Rock and Roll (our typical foreigner bar
hangout) and then to go dancing at Bubble. I met a pretty cool guy named Lee, who's from Saskatchewan. We all had a pretty crazy fun night that once again ended at dawn!
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