The days have been flying by, and I have had a hard time keeping up with them all. One of these days I am going to figure out how to keep days going the same speed I am! This past week or so has been touch and go I have had so many ups and downs I think I may be getting motion sickness. Life has a strange way of doing that I suppose.
My kindergarten class is continuing its never ending quest in giving me grief. I have attempted to get some workable ideas from the Korean teacher who works with them a little before and after I get them. I tried to implement said ideas, but they wouldn't work. At first I thought I was doing something wrong, but she actually came in and showed me how to do them. I tried again and met with the same failure. The students just do not want to listen to me, and since they have gotten used to me, they are not afraid to act up either.
One of my 6pm students (the 12 year old amongst the 16 y/o's) told me I was a bad teacher. I don't take much of what she says seriously, but I wanted to see if she could elaborate as it seemed she may actually have a point. All she could tell me was that I need to act like a teacher, but she couldn't tell me what that meant. I told her she was going to teach class on Monday! She doesn't want to, so we will see what happens with that.
Today at lunch all the foreign teachers went out to eat. I shouldn't have went as I am really low on cash this month, but I splurged on the galbi (meat which you cook on a grill in front of you and eaten on leafs along with garlic, onions, and other good stuff), rice, and soup. It came to around $9 each for the seven of us. A little on the expensive side, but well worth it.
There was a little girl there, couldn't have been more than 1.5, who kept looking at us and standing at the end of the table. I said hi to her and smiled. She came over and sat down beside me. I was eating pondegi (which you will remember is the silkworm cacoons) and offered her some. She took to them with gusto! I had to make sure to give her some rice as well, as one can not just eat pondegi. It was so cute having her there. It might have been dangerous to indulge in such doings though one can never tell what type of feelings they may dig up.
I am still trying hard to figure out what is going on in my life both now and after my contract is up. I have not yet received a decision from University of Michigan, so I have no idea as to whether I need to plan for school. I think that not knowing is the hardest part of anything. I have been feeling a little better, though.
Things continue to pile up, I continue to knock them down. One of these days I will find what the reason I am doing all this for is. But until then, I will be content knowing I have friends and family that care, and I will succeed in the things that really matter.
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