I'm working on the flexibility thing; I really am. 2-2 teacher came in, while I was planning for my lesson today, and wanted to practice for her open class. She wanted me to play a puppet for it while I was OBVIOUSLY working on preparing a lesson. I tried to help her as much as possible, but I was a little frustrated. I ended up getting everything done for my lesson thankfully. Then, I got a phonecall all in Korean; I got from the phonecall that 1-1 class...no. Then 1-5 teacher called to explain that 1-1 teacher was going to teach her own English class today. Not a great start to the week, but I'm sure it'll get better.
The lesson this week is to dance to a "Colors" song! The students seem to love it. They only dance to part of the song, while I dance to the whole thing...and they ask "One more time" about 3 or 4 times, so there's a whole lot of dancing going on this week!
After school, I hurriedly laminated individual nametags with the alphabet for my kids at the orphanage. I had to then head home to grab their books that they made last week, and my host mom drove me there. There's more of them than last time, first there were 17, then 19, today there are 21. I'm fine with teaching 21 kids, but I didn't bring enough supplies, and the children made a book last time. I thought the number would be consistent, but it's not. I tried to teach them a song, but whoa it was hard. I need to work more on teaching them the days of the week before they will grasp the song. It's also difficult because they range from age 5-10, so the 5 year olds are actually 4, American age. They barely know their own language! LOL! They are so cute though. Even though I wasn't having too great of day, they made me feel so much better.
They kept saying ChickaChickaBoomBoom, because I read that book to them last week. It cracked me up that they remembered it! We added a page B in our books, and went over the alphabet a few times. I gave them Pepero since yesterday was Pepero Day. I'm still working on learning names, but I think I'll learn them pretty quickly. They're so freaking cute! I want to take them home with me. Because the place they live is pretty nice, I forget sometimes that they don't have families. I can't ask many questions, because nobody can answer them; nobody speaks English there. It's one more reason to continue learning Korean!
I hung out with my host mom and host sister when I got home. I got a call from Julie asking me if I wanted to go out with her and her friend tonight at 9:00PM. She wanted to buy me something to drink to make up for not being there on Friday and tell me something...it made me nervous that she wanted to tell me something. I also talked to Lauren for the first time in forever! She and I haven't seen each other in a few weeks since Kyeongju! Crazy! We live in the same city!
I didn't each much of dinner, because earlier my host mom made a kimchi pajang (Kimchi Pancake) for my host sis and me. Also, I don't really like ddeokbolki (pounded rice in a spicy sauce).
My host mom went out to meet my host father at the movie theatre; they went on a date to a movie!! The host sibs stayed home alone once I left to meet Julie and her friend. Her friend was a really nice, attractive guy. He is 28 and speaks almost not a word of English! We went to 길가배 (Kil Cafe - A road with many small cafes). We had coffee and cookies and talked. At one point when her friend went to the bathroom, Julie told me what she had wanted to. Apparently, her job is starting sooner than she initially though, so she's leaving this weekend. It was really hard for me to hear! She told me that she would be back every weekend, but I'm busy a lot of weekends. We'll make time for each other...it just sucks.
We kept hanging out and having fun. Then we headed to the Makkoli restaurant near where WEC meets. We had a seafood pajong (Korean pancake) and Makkoli. Julie's friend paid for us. He was really nice, and I tried to talk to him. It was hard, but we managed a small conversation. I swear I should know more Korean than this after four months! I'm working on it...promise!!
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