7-11

I have returned to the world of the working (sort of). After only teaching one day last week, I now only have had to teach two days this week (Monday & Tuesday) as it is exam week in South Korea. Although I don't teach nor do I moderate exams, I still have to be at school. I am being paid to read things online & eat lunch - two things I'm extremely good at. Actually in the next month I don't teach a full week at all, I think I'm going to have a tough time adjusting to teaching five straight days.

Chuseok vacation was really good. I did America proud on Korean Thanksgiving - I drank, ate, and laid around like a true patriot. I also went rafting and ate at Dunkin' Donuts (a highlight of my week).

Thanks to my friends in Yeongdong, I have found the most trash-tastic venue to drink at. The 7-11 and yes, I do mean the local convenience store. In Korea, all 7-11's have plastic tables & chairs outside where you can spend hours drinking cheap beer & eating food, both of which you can buy and prepare at the 7-11. So, basically you go in, buy 40's and cups, go outside, finish one, go inside buy another & some snacks (normally microwable dumplings or chips), and repeat the process until either the drunk Koreans start becoming creep, it gets too cold & I turn blue, or the 7-11 runs out of beer. This needs to start happening in the US.

That is the only interesting thing that happened to me in the last week. I just found out that tomorrow all the High School teachers will leave school early to go on a hike together before we eat, I'm not too sure how I feel about that. Miss Jung (Korean Mom) said it'll be fun, so I'll trust her.

Next week I get to go on the middle school field trip which I'm sure will be me having to take a lot of pictures with students & being incredibly confused as to what is going on around me. But, that is basically my life, I hardly ever know what is going on around me. I just follow when I'm told to.