First.
I just realized that the only reason I know the date when I blog is because I teach it three times a day. Ha..
Now back to me being famous. So, I got to school today and found out that classes were starting 20 minutes early. This came as a huge shock to me considering I then had 15 minutes to create a lesson plan instead of the insanely short 35 minutes I had initially planned to do it in. I then find out that someone wants to take pictures of my second period class...yes, the one that I had yet to do a lesson plan for.
So, I scurry over to my computer and frantically and quite fabulously pull a lesson plan out of wherever the hell frantic, fabulous lesson plans come from and prepared for my first class to walk in the door.
As my second class came in (the class that was about to receive the frantic lesson plan), I was still creating the number cards that were to be part of the game that accompanies the lesson. I teach the entire class...no camera. I end class and here comes a camera man walking in...with a camera? Oh no no...a video camera. I then had to replay part of my lesson with my kids so they could film part of my lesson.
I teach my last class of the day in which I yell at louder than I have ever yelled at a class before and immediately feel like shit for having done so. This is usually the way this works...just don't.
I finally have a break before lunch!
About 30 minutes later, I get an IM from a teacher in the office saying that lunch is waiting for me. Right. Since classes started early...as does lunch.
Lunch didn't suck...as much...as usual. We had quail eggs (amongst standard Korean kimchi, rice, and soup)! Yummy! As I'm sitting there, I'm informed that the footage from my class will be showing up on the local news of my PROVINCE. Apparently the news is spotlighting my elementary school.
Let me explain how shitty I looked this morning. I really did look like shit classroom shot. I woke up late, but luckily I shoved my hair straightener in my purse knowing I that didn't have time to deal with the hell that are my bangs in the morning. I then grabbed an umbrella and walked to school in the POURING rain....wearing flip flops (I always wear flip flops). The thing that sucks about flip flops and rain though...dirt goes flip skirt flop skirt flip skirt flop skirt (meaning that by the time I got to school...I had flip flopped dirt speckles all over the back of my skirt). Luckil
Also, while sitting at lunch, I find out that I'm supposed to help with a game show in the gym at 1:00PM. It is now 12:30PM. Haha! I get my English script. Around 1:00PM, I wander on down to the gym...there are PROFESSIONAL cameras set up, there's a talk show host, there are parents everywhere, there are a crap load of kids...this game show was for the same news show!
It was like Korea's Golden Bell...it's an educational game show where students are slowly weeded out if they don't know the right answer to a question. It was a really long game show! I read my two dialogues after the talk show host tried to ask me questions in Korean that I didn't understand. Ha!
Anyway...I survived the whole ordeal. And I'm going to be on tv apparently everyday next week. Only semi-terrifying.
Later tonight, I went out with my co-teacher Hyae-in after my guitar lesson. I invited her out because we are kind of part of a movie club. I don't know how it happened, but her and a friend of hers and I started going to a ton of movies together. Well our third cheated on us and went with some fellow teacher friends to see Indiana Jones. Well Hyae-in and I had to see it, so I invited her out. It was the weirdest damned movie ever, but it wasn't bad. It is worth seeing, and that is my final opinion. It's Indiana Jones and it is worth seeing.
Afterward we went out to Kimbap Nara, the ultimate of all cheap restaurants in Korea. It's comparative to that of a 2:00AM Hardees run. I had bibimbap and Hyae-in had lakboki. One of my Fulbright friends and I always joke about how we are starving at 1:00AM...well finally I was actually able to eat at 1:00AM and it was AMAZING! Food tastes so much better at 1:00AM! If you haven't tried it...please do so soon!^^
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