Lunar New Year, My Favourite Class, and Funny Writing

I am forcing myself to write a blog. I'm not entirely sure what it will be about yet, but maybe that will work out for the best. I am sure that over the past few weeks I keep thinking of things to write here, but never remember, despite always taking a notebook wherever I go. I have decided to do a food-blog soon, because people keep asking me what sort of things I eat here and I can't really explain.

The last few weeks have been pretty good in terms of teaching. In march, all the kids will be moving to different classes (It's kind of like our school year starting in September.) I'm quite sad about this because I will most likely lose my favourite kids, and be teaching different classes. Maybe it will be good to have my schedule mixed up a little.

This weekend was Lunar New Year in Korea, so we had Monday off work. This, of course, called for much celebrating. Saturday night I headed to Seoul. We went to this awesome bar, I'm not sure how well I can explain it. It's really dark and ambient, the walls were like brown, desert-ish cave walls, you take off your shoes and there are nooks to sit in with cushions on the floor. I will upload pictures when I get round to it. After that we went to a small club called Sensation, because we had heard about a dubstep night that was going on. It was just one dubstep set and the music was okay, but it was still good to do dance to the dub! Went to another club after that but I think the music there was a bit rubbish too. We stayed in a hostel so that we could hang out in Seoul on sunday, but due to it being New Years Day, most things were closed. The City Hall area was cool though - Weird Korean games going on, the girls wearing Hanbok (traditional clothing), lots of families, ice skating, pretty kites flying everywhere etc. The view of the mountains from there is amazing too. I will put some pictures in a picture-blog soon.

Here are some pictures of my favourite class, MK2B:
Mary at the front left, her English is really good. Quiet Chris sitting next to her, she never talks.

Little Lily in the back, she's one of my favourites. She always comes to meet me in the teachers office and then walks with me to class. She tries to speak English to me but gets really frustrated when she can't and giggles about it. That's Philip on the chair, he doesn't talk much and sometimes freaks me out a bit with weird faces he makes! Jack is hiding from the camera, and Harry at the front is clearly pissed that I'm taking a picture of her.

Bill on the left, who is generally quiet too. James on the right, he's a little ball of energy and just loves to draw pictures on the board - I let him, even if they're messy, because I feel creativity is so important.

 

Quite a funny/scary picture of Andy, he was trying to hide from the camera. I think he's a little genius, he seems to pick up on things that the others don't

Last friday I played a team game with them. I told them the left half of the class were one team, and the right half another. Andy and James wanted to pick their own teams and we discussed it for ages. I said no because I didn't want anyone to be left out. They started saying something in Korean, used their dictionary to translate it and showed me "Decision by majority." I couldn't stop laughing.

Now for a couple of pieces of brilliant writing.
I did a spelling test with MK2B and this was one of the girls' answers. I have no idea why she's in a higher class. (the brackets are what it should be):
1. polt (pilot)
2. dother (doctor)
3. ceroon (clown)
4. amalekn (american)
5. petsher (picture)
6. indeno (India)
7. polisa (police)
8 cakoer (soccer)
9. alests (artist)
10. frier fert (fire fighter)

Two of my classes have to write a couple of journal entries per week, which only I read, and then comment on. These are two from one girl, it's pure poetry!

"I'm tired.
Sometimes I'm tired.
because I don't know.
Very ubsurd.
I dont know reason!
I dont like tired.

Everthing is tiresome!!
Everything is tiresome.
Because it is tiresome. haha!
I dont like sports.
So I fill everything tiresome.
don't like doing...."

Well, I think that is all I can think to write about for today. Next two blogs will be food and clothes, I think!