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Week 3- Y3(Mar 25th to Mar 31st) |
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Sunday:
Ugh. I just remembered why I hate soju.
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Tuesday:
One of my students was in an accident today-- he's
okay, but his scooter is destroyed and there's going
to be some problems with the other driver paying the
insurance. When are people going to learn how to
driver safely here? How many accidents does it take?
Naturally, my student couldn't come for his lesson, so
I'll have to come in on Friday for a makeup lesson.
One thing I didn't count in this semester-- swimming
in administrative work. I spend so much friggin time
at the photocopier I might as well pitch a tent. May
have to get myself a teaching assistant soon . . .
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Wednesday:
I'm a little worried about my first improv students in
Seoul-- I suspect there could be some attitude
problems in the future, but we'll have to wait and
see.
I went to my second salsa class tonight and didn't
have quite as much fun as the first time-- I got stuck
with this really weird Korean guy the whole time. Not
only did he smell all sweaty and gross, but he really
really could not dance his way out of a paper bag.
There are not words to express how terrible he is. My
poor toes . . . And of course-- by the end of the
class he had decided that he had a crush on me,
despite the fact that I was kind of bitchy and bossy
towards him. Aagh! I'm learning that the "fun
factor" in salsa is seriously dependent on your
partner.
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Friday:
After my makeup teaching today, Jae called a meeting
for some of the professors (specifically the ones who
speak English!). As I've probably mentioned, my
college has a relationship with Humber College in
Toronto-- if our students get into Humber, they can
transfer right into 3rd year. However, Humber College
administration is causing some slowdowns for us--
despite the fact that this program has been in place
for 2 years, they are only now deciding that the
elective courses at PaekChe aren't good enough to act
as transfer credits for their elective courses. They
want the FULL course outlines for all of these
electives so that they can decide if our transfer
students need to take them again in Canada. Lame!
Why are they only deciding this now? Anyway, what it
boils down to is Jae, Won Sool, Chang Hyun, and Oak
Young have to translate the course outlines for all
the elective courses, and Kenji and I have to grammar
check/fix the wording (Ben's still in Montreal at the
moment). And . . . it has to be done by Monday. BOO!
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Saturday:
So Joe is back, and settled into an apartment close to
Guro Station in Seoul. We met up in the Hongdae area
tonight with some of his friends from the winter camp
he taught at. It seems like foreigners always pick
the worst bars here-- his friends wanted to go the bar
that I hate the most, Tin Pan-- it smells like old
socks, looks about the same, and is really no more
than a greasy meat market. Fortunately we didn't stay
for long before his friends decided that they wanted
to go to a hip-hop club. By this point, Moon Youn, a
Korean girl that Joe met while travelling in Thailand
had joined us. We did get dragged into the hop-hop
club, which turned out to be cheesy and lame, but Moon
Youn, Joe and I bailed pretty soon after in search of
more chill atmospheres. Moon Youn took us to this
really cool Korean-style bar, where you sit on thick
cushions on the carpeted floor around mother-of-pearl
inlaid tables. In the middle, there's a really pretty
little pond-- very relaxed and very chilled out, kind
of like hanging out in a good friend's basement.
Loved it! And loved Moon Youn-- there are very few
Koreans who have the "travelling spirit", but she's
definitely got it. Her next trip starts on Monday--
she's going to Israel, Egypt and Jordan! I'm pretty
jealous . . .
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