I get paid to sit around.

Since Wednesday, September 29th, I have only taught two days. I really don't do anything, but yet I have no idea where the time goes.

I'll sum up the events of my last week (more so I can remember them in a year from now)

29th: Middle School Exams - I sat at my desk all day & tried to plan ahead. In reality, I did nothing but read things online & stare out the window. It really was thrilling.

30th: High School Exams - I sat at my desk for the first half of the day until noon when we were excused from school. After being excused all of the teachers got into cars & drove to Jinbu to go for a walk in some famous forest with lots of temples (I still don't know why we went all the way there for the walk though). It was a lovely day, I learned to pray like a Buddhist, how to recognize the different time periods of Buddhist graves, and that getting stung by a bee in Korea hurts as bad as it does in North America. After our journey through the forest, we loaded back into the cars & drove to a duck farm for dinner & drinks. The meal was AMAZING, the duck was so fresh (killed that day) & the soju was being poured freely. I was convinced to try out raw duck, which I will say has a nice flavor.

1st: High School Exams - Went for a long walk with KM in the morning, then sat around until we were excused at noon. Went and ate buckwheat noodles (a Pyeongchang specialty), they weren't that great until I poured wasabi and manu kochu (hot peppers) all over it. Friday afternoon brought my first Korean lesson at which I had my only useful lesson of the year. I will learn NOTHING in Korean class. All Korean will be learned with KM or on my own time, the class will be an hour and a half of socializing with the other NETs.

Skip forward to Monday, I'll write about the weekend next time.

4th: I actually taught one full day. It was standard teaching day. After school KM and I went to dinner. We had fish & makoli (frozen rice wine).

5th: School Field Trip to Gangneung. We went to the Thomas Edison/largest collection of gramaphones in the world museum, some other place (no one told me what it was) and for a drive past the sea. We were supposed to go to the sea, but it started pouring during our picnic lunch. The day can basically be summed up as, I spent the day with 12 year olds who kept giving me candy & taking pictures of/with me.

6th: I taught a full day and then had to stay for three hours to practice "Summer Night". All I can say is, F you John & Olivia.

7th: The No Sung (Old Castle) Festival starts in Pyeongchang today, so I am sitting at my desk doing nothing for the whole morning as the students are all at the opening ceremony. I think I teach in the afternoon (we'll see though).

Tomorrow I am skipping school to go to the Pyeongchang English Festival for the day.

Basically, my weeks consist of doing nothing & getting paid. My weekends are a little more involved & would take too long to write about now. So, some other time.