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Sometimes I just can't get the contradictions in Korea. Like my tendancie to think fart jokes are funny - poo here is quite funny too. The kids draw piles of poo in the margins of their notebooks, Grown women giggle themselves to death over mear mention of an impending large bowel movement. So shit is funny. Why is it then that when someone blows their nose (discreetly)in public people recoil in horror and disgust an look at you as if you have just killed their first born child?
As avid readers will know (I know there's at least one of you ot there) I'm not one to bitch...pause for indignant laughter....Let alone bitching about students but Wednesday really took the cake when it came to my 6 o'clock class. A class, it should be noted, is full of really good kids whp are way ahead of the curve when it comes to learning. Except for one little S$*t who has, over the course of the 7 week unit, done, quite literally, nothing. No work in class, no homework, and insists on talking, screaming, walking around, throwing things, and ignoring my requests to sit the fuck down and shut the hell up. Now this particular class I happen to share with both Conan and 'The Boss' and i have mentioned it to both of them on a couple of ocassions to no avial, so On Wednesday I made a point of getting them both in the same room at the same time and tellin' them how it was. Conan was basically mute while 'The Boss' mentioned something of an impending timetable change and that he would talk to Sophia about it. - (Raised eyebrows:) We'll see.
Meanwhile my activity index is bottoming out as I climb out of a head cold that has been around since last weekend. Luckily I have been sharing the wealth and I was able to send Sophia home early on Thursady night and take her 7:00 class as she seemed to be suffering much more than I was. It means I get an early finish on Friday - Assah!
Thursday ended up being quite a bastard of a day as Conan was off having to fullfill his (annual?) one day military training refresher just incase The North invades some time late Sunday / early Monday.
Actually the other reason for the inactivity (besides inhierant laziness) is the will to save as much money as possible in the next four months. And as the current pay period comes to an end the fat wad of notes in the draw means I have done particularly well this month. It seems Teacher's college is down the tubes due to conflicting time frames so we may well be back in The Republic before you can say Kimchi Chiggae 10 times fast. Or perhaps The Chosun Bimbo will become the Nippon Bimbo? The Shanghai Bimbo? Personally I like the ring to "The Beijing Bimbo?" But such thoughts are for another post. And it must be remembered that for a short time at least we WILL see the apperance of The Waiuku Bimbo. God help us.
This Friday will be the last of the month and so is regular no real classes situation, and I will get to dish out lots of candy in that we are celebrating Halloween a couple of days early. I have got my 5 O'clock class to practice a (somewhat) halloween themed reading which they will perform in front of the other classes hopefully to critical acclaim from my collegues. Having found somewhere to put my podcasts I was hoping to actually film the performance and put it up on the internerd somewhere and link to it from here so yous can all see I'm like a gud Engrish Teechaa 'n stuff aye. (sorry you were saying something about my spelling the other day Julie?) At anyrate I will put some pics of the kids up anyway because I made them all promise to come in costume on Friday with the flimsy excuse that I would give them some candy. (Word spread, and so earlier this evening 'The Boss' pulled out one of those masks like the killer in 'Scream' and asked me what I thought. There will definately be a photo of that.)
Friday will also see a long awaited reunion with the International Man of Mystery that is Ken who has been in Bird Flu land for the last couple of weeks, probably not in the best shape for a big Friday night (considering I'll have to teach his kids on Saturday afternoon in Suwon) and maybe he's in the same position having rung me last night to tell me he was back and he was enjoying a Martini as we spoke. Then again maybe not.
That's it. Longer than expected this one, but I notice looking at The Bimbo that i havn't had much to say of late (virgin podcasts and so on) so this should tide you over.
BTW does anyone know if Winston will be heading to Busan for the APEC foreign minister's meeting? I'd be keen to go down there just to have a ciggie with him.
