ALRIGHT ALRIGHT a quick update

Alright for all you readers of mine that i've been disappointing here's a quick update of what's been happening in my life.


I got a new fridge and a new microwave...
the fridge was the old one from work..... and we hadn't looked in it since the move.... which FYI..... was about 4 daysafter shir got here..... 27 june? and we opened it on ... friday.....25th.... July...

and yes there was stuff left over in it..... including a box of tomatoes....... and couple of containers of juice and some.... bag f something in the freezer....
it stank pretty bad....not the worst i've spelt (that award going to the fish that i put in the bin which then..... i dunno seemed to dissolve as it went off *shudders*)


anyway i took it home and after about 2.5 hrs of scrubbing and detergent wiping and more scrubbing (i even scrubbed beneath the sealing areas....... which were black....) mind you this is after a flushed it through with BLEACH then left to dry so even afterall that, it still took me the better part of 3 hrs to clean it to an acceptable standard.

but at the end of it all I know have a freezer... and 2 fridge parts..... so that's.... cool :P
i can keep ice cream at home now.


On another note, as I've said in the chatterbox, the 'Summer Intensive' program has begun here at "Jes Island" english institute ...... and it's hell....
it's supposed to be intesive for the kids because they're in school holz at the moment so the idea is that we've extended the hours here to cover the hours the kids would normally be in school cos GOD FORBID THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A REAL HOLIDAY AND REST!!! i have to say the parents here are the ABSOLUTE worst of all asian parents,especially because it's so normal here that the kids kind of expect to not have holidays. It's really quite sad in my opinion...

But anyway going on, it's supposed to be intensive for the kids but in reality it ends up being far more intensive for the teachers who, up until this point have only had 1-7/8/9 hours and now have 9am - 6pm hours, with only 1 period's break (40 minutes) as well as a lunch break (which is paid seing as wel have to spend the entire break with the kids supervising and the usual bollocks) SO basically that means that all the teachers start at 940 and go straight until about 4-5 where we each have a single break for 40 minutes where most of usend up sleeping or catching up on work that we should've done already or work tat needs to be done, or receiving intructions about the "JUST NEW" schedule that's issued at the last minute possible. (more on that later)

So on top of wanting to spend more time with Shir as this is her last couple of days with me (for 4 MONTHS :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:( ) i also have to make sure i get enough sleep while getting up around 730 (else by the time i'm UP up I'm late already)

So okay now for my rant about the organisation here, in particular about the Summer Intensive course.
Now we've all known about the fact that we'll have a course for... like EVER now because they always doit, the only difference is that we're doing it concurrently with a Kindy program which is separately admin'd. So anyway we've know about it for ages now and despite this knowledge our books for the coure were only finalised about 2 days before the course BEGAN and were delivered in full on the day of the course beginning. And in typical "Murphy's law is going to fuck me up the ass" form, some books weren't ordered in enough quantity for classes so some classes are sharing books (though this was only realised on the day and AFTER some of the kids had *rightfully* put their names on the books), on top of this books were sometimes placed in the wrong classes or distributed to the wrong class as a result of the teachers having no clue of what was going on til about.... 45 seconds before our class (and the program) began.
Speaking of teacher's perspective... we're pretty much kept totally in the dark about almost everything until the last minute... which is ... infuriating to say the least. The book situation meant that we really couldn't prepare for the lessons, which for a 'Wing' King like myself it doesn't matter cos i like do lessons on the fly anyway... but it's still annoying.

Also especially last week a lot of our classes were changed at the last minute mainly due to the fat that we had missing materials and just a shitfight overall so that was also pretty stressful cos we didn't really knowwhat we were doing. Everyday last week I got to work about 15 minutes before class started and i was still as clued in as everybody else who got there much much earlier than me .... bad right? In my honest opinion what is done at hagwons (or hakwons) is glorified daycare..... I dunno what parents expectfrom ou institutions but it just seems that we babysit kids and hurl bucketloads of English at them hoping that some parts of the language stain on their brains long enough to become memory.
I guess the best thing about that is... because they pay you shit (for what you have to put up with) and don't tell you shit, youbasically can't DO shit..... (or maybe the idea is that you can ONLY do shit)..... ah well..


apart from all that I've been pretty good, really loved the fact that i have somebody at home waiting and similarly that I have somebody to go home to as well. Eating has been whole lot more fun because of the extra company, and unsurprisingly i'm going to miss that a lot when Thursday rolls round......

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*news just in*

By Thursday i mean next TUESDAY!! cos she decided to extend her ticket =) YAY! :)

one more weekend. :)

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So carrying on.... i do have a lot of stuff that i need to blog about...Suwon Folk village... Numerous food outings,..... went to Insadong on this last weekend as well as... Namedaemun (which i think is a lot cooler than Dongdaemun) and also went to see the Nanta cooking show..... then of course ihave to have a giganormous post about Jeju and all of it's wonders..... hmm so yeah i have quite a lot of blogging to do....

Hope you're all well and please leave a message on my chatterbox from time to time just so i know that you guuys are still alive and more importantly, still reading my blog despite my laxity this past month. (Esp Bink who's like the Post Police or some such)

Peace out pplz :)

missing you all....


-Bev