TGIF and.. well now Saturday

Well i know it's Saturday but i thought i'd fill things in for friday.....
So i get to work feeling pretty pumped that it's the weekend at last and also because Friday is like a short day.
So i get to my classes feeling pretty stoked and happy and enthused about working but happy to reward hard work as well......
SO anyway most of the initial classes are fine.
i get to one of my problem classes and the girl who's usually my biggest supporter and helper.. and helps me keep order in the class by beating and yelling the other kids into submission... she comes running out.........

just to punch me.... and then jump on me to tell me she wants to play a game today :S which then leads to a mutiny and the entire class proceeds to tackle me and jump all over me... so at one stage i had 6 kids hanging off me...... and i was big enough to still remain standing :P anyhoo so yeah .... at one stage tho.. i had 4 kids hanging off me.... and one enterprising lad decides now's a great time to "dong shim" (which i have since rediscovered to mean literally "shit needle") tho considering the ferocity with which he attacked me... it'd be more appropriate to call it like shit jackhammer or like shit power drill or something like than..... maybe pneumatic hammer? Either way it felt like he was trying to piece my liver :S
AWKWARD

but anyway... i think i'll just leave it at that


SO friday thankfully past and i went out with 2 of the yanks at the school for some pool and beer... and i gotta say... doesn't matter what country you're in... you get 2 good fellas with you to do that... and it's just like you never left home... for those back home... out of us 3 i think i was the worst player :P
how's that eh? :P tho i got my groove back after a couple of beers :P

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Saturday...
so today i got my phone .... here's the number +821080610346
while waiting for the phone i went to the pub where i first ate when i got here.... already 2 weeks ago
had a nice beef and mushroom pie and washed it down with sangria :)
very nice :)

So anyway i wrote some stuff for the blog whilst i was waiting for my meal so i'll just put it in here and save myself having to come up with original material right here on the spot.
So here goes:

I'm still undecided about Korea, one of the things that in a way hinders (and in another way helps) my experience of Korea is the fact that if don't open my mouth and no one talks to me, then i fit right it... it's almost impossible to differentiate me from the Koreans here.... so i don't see what it's like to be a tourist, and thus i don't get to see the more courteous side of the people around here simply because they think I'm one of them.... so my next phrase that has been memorised is "cho nun han gul sara anieyo" (I'm not Korean). The lifestyle of living alone is one that is a new and interesting challenge for me, one that i seem to be living up to quite well considering the people around me have moved out of home since the age of 18. I haven't cracked just yet which is surprising considering who i am. The loneliness can be oppressive though I guess moderated by the fact that being out is no different from being at home generally, so i guess that makes it both harder and easier depending on how you think about it.
At this stage I've edcided that living alone isn't bad and quite easy to get used to , but as far as Korea goes I think i'd prefer Sydney still, mainly cos of the genuine warmth of the inhabitants there and the good heartedness of people (yes i know... we steal stuff but still) which is... at least as far as i've seen, largely non-existent. I blame this on a language that "pleases" and "thank yous" already built into the structure of the sentence, and it take no more extra effort to be polite, whereas in English, pleases is very much optional and it does take effort to say, in fact there are those who cannot stomach saying please anyway. It is because of this that thank yous and pleases are well sought after (and rightly so) and generally genuinely appreciated when said. Behaviourally, there are days of the year that are marked out to specify certain groups of people who deserve to be thanked, mother's and father's day... then teacher's day. It's such a formalised sense of politeness that it's not the behaviour of being polite that's being ingrained into the people it's more like they learn to follow procedure....... and come to think of it i guess that's the rub isn't it..... the politeness, the respect, the caring (in some cases) is all just procedure.... they don't do it because they want to......it's because they're supposed to, and thus they must obey procedure. A funny example of something similar.... traffic lights....
red lights are stop green is go..... here it's "stop on red,.... until you can make a break for it in which case ... go...
Obedience to traffic lights seems to be optionally and totally up for interpretation about whether or not you should go or not?....


Anyway that's enough from me......




Have a good night all and take care.