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Week 36 (Oct 30th to Nov 5th) |
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Sunday Oct 30th, Today, I kind of taught my first private lesson in Korea. Technically, we're not allowed to teach privates, because it is not in our contract, and it's actually illegal. I'm not really sure why. It must have something to do with tax evasion, and taking business away from English schools or something. But most foreigners do it anyhow. Evan and I were to be the token "foreigners" at a Halloween party that was to take place at Woobang Tower Land (an amusement park in Daegu). First of all, neither Evan or I were in great shape, considering the night we had had before (too many shots of soju and random green stuff can do that to you), and it was also really cold out. But it turned out that the whole party was completely organized, and we really didn't have to do much at all, other than stand around, and occasionally help out with games. I really like getting a little extra cash for doing almost nothing at all. It's certainly
a pleasant change from the bending-over-backwards ass-kissing I have to do at Wonderland.
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Monday Oct 31st,Today we had a big Halloween party for all of our students. All of the morning students came in dressed up, and they all looked all adorable. Here was the plan for the day: teach the kids about the history of Halloween, sing the Monster Mash, make a
Jack-o-lantern, go trick-or-treating at some of the kid's apartments, and have a haunted house. All of this sounds fun and great, but there were some inherent flaws in the whole plan. Every year, Carey gets off on scaring the crap out the kids by putting
on a scary mask, and jumping out at the kids and terrifying them. This is great if you don't take into account that they're FIVE YEARS OLD! All of my kids were so terrified that I constantly had at least three kids in my lap bawling their eyes out. And as soon as I would get one to stop crying, Carey would jump out at them again, and the waterworks would start again. And this was before they even got to the haunted house. . . Needless to say, I was not terribly impressed with Carey today!
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Wednesday Nov 2nd,Today we had our big bi-monthly birthday party for the morning kids, which is basically an excuse for them to binge on pizza and fried chicken and cake. (There's nothing Koreans like more than force-feeding others!) Fun for the kids, but ended up being not very fun for me-- I had an allergic reaction to something in the chicken. I'm pretty baffled by the whole thing, because I know that this particular restaurant uses olive oil, not peanut oil, and furthermore, while it= was definitly an allergic reaction of some sort, it
wasn't the same as a peanut reaction. Plus, the other two times that I can remember getting sick (minus the samgyetang/death soup incident), it was from the same kind of fried chicken. So I seem to have a mystery allergy . . . In any case, I had a really great time throwing up all afternoon, or while I had to teach, sitting in class trying not to throw up. I will never eat fried chicken again.
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Thursday Nov 3rd, Our friend Nadia has a really incredible job in Pohang working at a private elementary school. The pay is really good, there are tons of perks like meal allowances, she gets a huge bonus at the end of every year, and her apartment is absolutely massive. Here's the catch: for some reason her employer prefers couples. When Nadia was signed, she was engaged, but she and her fiance have since broken up. So Nadia was told that she had to find a roommate, or else she wouldn't be signed on for another year. Enter Jason: Jason was fully intending to go home and do teacher's college, and then possible come back to Korea to save more money. But when Nadia put this job on the table, he (very wisely) agreed that he would be a fool to turn it down. So today, he had a job interview in Pohang, and . . . he got the job! It starts in March, so I'm thrilled to know that I'll have my best friend not too far away (and I'll have a good excuse to go to the beach). |
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Saturday Nov 5th, Tonight we had our last Drums is No show ever. A foreigner organized an art show that was to take place at Commune and another bar, and he wanted kind of a multi-media thing, so he booked some bands for Friday and Saturday night. He wanted Drums is No, even though we technically already played our last show, so we agreed to play one last time. It was fun, but I'm
quite happy to have finished one band (especially this one; I'm pretty tired of playing crappy pop songs). Now I can take more time to work on my own music, and prepare for my job in March. On a sidenote: I'm sick AGAIN! I barely remember what it feels like NOT to have a cold or a cough. I may have to suck it up and actually go to a doctor this time.
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