I finally got my phone bill paid; I've been putting that one off for a while. Not on purpose; the bank is just always closed by the time I leave school, or I have something else to do right after school.
Again, nobody showed up to the teachers' class. When I headed down to the first grade office for a short time, 1-5 teacher apologized repeatedly and told me she forgot about it. Even if she had remembered, everyone else still wouldn't have been there.
At 5:00PM, I met 1-5 downstairs to go to dinner with her and her friend. We're going out to do stuff once a week, so they can learn English through simple interaction with a native English speaker. I was hesitant to accept, but they're paying for whatever we do each week. A weekend in December, we are going to go to the Sharing House that houses 10 surviving Comfort Women. I talked to 1-5 teacher about it, she talked to her friend, and her friend has been there before. So, they offered to take me! It's something that I really wanted to experience while in Korea.
At dinner, we talked about a bunch of random stuff; travel, life, work, etc. It was nice just hanging out with them. 1-5 teacher's friend is only 30 years old, but I still need to figure out her name. I hate asking, because I know I've already been told at least twice. They are the same two that I went to the basketball game with. I told them that I have an ex-fiance, and 1-5 was super surprised. She and I have talked about marriage before. We both agreed that we are too selfish to be in relationships right now. We have plans for our lives, and we're not really willing to sacrifice those plans for marriage. The difference is that: she is 39 and I am 22; she never wants to get married, and I would like to get married someday. One day I'll find someone with similar life plans, whether my plans are to travel the world or to finally "settle" down. 1-5 told me that her plan after retirement is to travel, and teach abroad. That is only her plan right now.
We were at dinner for about three hours. When I got home, I had to book it on making a topic for the Friday meeting. I was drawing a blank on a topic, but under pressure, I managed to pull something out. I got a text from Kevin (the leader of the group this month) so I felt a lot more pressure than I really had to, because I called him and he said that I didn't need to have it up until Thursday. I still decided to get it out of the way. The topic is equality in Korea and throughout the world. I made questions that go along with the topic. Unfortunately, I found out that I have dinner with the first grade teachers and the principal on Friday, so I'm going to dinner with them, leaving to go to the meeting for 2 hours, and then heading back to meet up with the teachers if they are still out and about. These are the questions for the discussion on Friday:
- Is everyone created equal (Is everyone born having the same worth?)
- How are males and females treated differently in Korea/in other countries? Are there “roles” that women and men are supposed to fill (Are there specific jobs for women and men?)
- How are people of different races and nationalities (black, Hispanic, Japanese, American, British, etc.) treated in Korea/in other countries?
- Are people of different sexual orientations (gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, etc) treated equally in
- Give one or two experiences from history or personal experience where someone has been discriminated against or treated unequally.
There's an amazing website that you should check out: http://www.freerice.com/index.php
This kept me up until 2:00AM. That and talking online.^^
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