Okies, well i made it through another day on my Korean sojourn.
So up this morning slightly later... approx 930 this morning got ready and got out of the house... off to the gym as per usual.
The gym lady pretty much ignores me tho she recognises me as the 'faux korean'; she just says "annyonghaseyo" and then pretty much leaves me to my own thing. Anyhoo. i didn't realise but i'd actually left my conditioner (yes yes i know "OMG OH NO!" right? .... well shuddup) at the shower yesterday so i was just wandering if it would be there where i left it. As expected no it wasn not. HOWEVER it was over at the table where the have yet ANOTHER mirror as well as a set of draws for peopl to leave stuff in... seeing as in my area stealing is pretty much... not really done.. or so i hear from other areas too...
so my hair left the gym once again smelling sweet fresh and impossibly soft :P
So.... off i went to school... arrived around 1230 cos i'm still taking quite a while to get my pre lesson stuff sorted... then i found out that i wasnt even due in the school until 130 -.-"
so i worked away happily.
Today's schooling was quite good actually.. i had a lot of the older kids which i absolutely LOVE simply cos they're a lot smarted and i can actually use full sentences with them and reason with them.. and the bottom line is; they WANT to be there and learn the younger kids... cute and everything but HORRIDLY dumb :(
sigh*
However i had a funny episode with a younger kid today too. Was playing this stupid song from the english language CD about clothes (yes..... it's a short diddy about clothes, now can we move on?) and the lil girl was happily singing along.......
on the second time however, one of the boys in the class gets up and starts dancing.... which is fine.
what WASN'T fine was when he Michael Jackson'd his crotch, and also air guitared his crotch and also steepled his fingers in front of his crotch...... much to my disgust....
still some things happened and he ended up getting clocked in the crotch by the other boy in the class so i guess that's why they tell ya to "keep it in your pants".
Moving along, speaking of these lil kids..... they spend literally the better part of an entire day at the school..... the kids start at 9am in the morning for school and the younger ones finish around 12pm whilst the older ones finish around 330... after school they pretty much go straight to my college and are there until late at night..... the latest group today left at 915..... having had an almost solid 12 hours at schooling...... i've gotta say i have quite a bit of concern for these kids...... why aren't they out playing and being kids???? it's a bit ridiculous when you think about it... hell you might not even have to think about it too much to realise it's pretty ridiculous.
Ok speaking of ridiculous, i met my boss today..... pretty decent looking fella and i feel quite indebted to him cos he gave me the job (thanks to some pressure in another country :P kekekeke) so anyway i finally meet him for the first time ever, which i was quite happy about.
So anyway this happened in the morning .... well it was technically afternooon but either way it was before class,. The dude comes in and says "aahh Bevan so good to meet you at last" and shakes my hand..... and holds it...... now... let me clarify this, most of you know how i shake hands with people.. even the girls i know should i think.... so this fella shakes my hand nice and firm (which you all know i like) and then holds it... not hard enough to signal we're still shaking.. but not soft enought to allow me to disengage without making it look like i think i'm trying to disengage a crab from my hand.... so i hold my hand there a lil limp not quite sure WHAT the hell i'm supposed to be doing with it.... so i made the excutive decision and went in for round 2 with the shaking... .i think it kinda surprised him if i saw his face...cos then he gave me a couple more small shakes to reinitiate the festivities........ strange huh?...
Moving along.. he tells me to head outside for coffee (by outside he actually meant in the reception area.... -.- lame i know but understand there aren't any cafe's in our area. so he sits down on the couch.. quite close to the edge, his other side is blocked by kids bags so i assumed i was to sit in the small gap he left behind.... so i do.... then he weiggles a bit closer while talking to other people... we chat about inane things and talk about sport and then..... in a HUGE move of .. i don't even KNOW what to call it..... he laughs.. looks at my thigh and smartly brings his big hand onto it......... yes .. my thigh.....not even close to the knee either.... ... it was like closer to my hip than knee.
Now y'all know that i'm not stranger to like hugs for guys etc, but this almost made me leap out of my skin.. and only a VERY large amount of control stopped me from running out of the reception and leaving my skin there. .... what's worse is that it stayed there... seeing as he gave no indication of discomfort on his part........ then again he wasn't the one who had a large limb attached to his midthigh :|
so anyway.... i asked my US counterpart about that and he told me that that's the way the guy is.. so i felt fine aobut that then... thought it was just me.. but if it's everybody i don't mind so much... lol apparently my US buddy gets massages a lot of the time :P hehehehehe he considers leaving his skin behind as well.....
alright... so....um.. apart from that not much reall yhappened.. i finally yelled.... well went off... like in a quiet way at this kid who quailed and shut the hell up,,,,,
not really sure what else to write at this point.. and i really should probably get out of smokey hole... i gotta be at the schoool at 9am tomorrow for a meeting.... sigh....
OOH!! i know.... it's taken me a while.. but ....ladies and gentlemen.. i have bought BREAKFAST CERAL!!!!!!! YAY!!! so that's for breaky tomorrow .... then i have to be registered as an alien in this country, after which means i can get a phone on a plan (ie hook it up to a credit card) and after that, our finance director for our 'project' as Linda calls it (his name's Ryu but Canadian girl Nicole calls him Elliot........*Cough*) is gonna ring the internet company and try and get me sorted with net connection.. so i'm praying and PRAYING that it'll happen and i'll be conected tomorrow. See that's one thing that's amazing about South Korea; the boss was telling us about how he ordered some swimwear online...... and it was delivered by scooter to his house within an hour......
How unheard of would that be in Aussie... or in any western country for that matter?
anyway.. i think i'm going to leave this post at that.. it's pretty big after all.
Btw i've gotta thank those .... well applaud those who actually slog their way through these entires posts.. i'm glad i don't write these things for nothing......
Just so you all know i'm missing you all... and wishing that i was with you all, but failing that i'm wishing you guys were here with me.
Lotsa love piggy *mwa* *hugs*
Peace.
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I hope you're using the Korean phrasebooks and at least attempting to learn Korean. I'll need a translater when i turn up sometime over the next couple of months you know...
yeah man... been good had my first go at it talking to a stranger :P
quite funny but had the desired results :P
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