THE PUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IS HERE!!!
Monday, we planned to go see the movie "Religulous" with Bill Maurer that I guess just came out in the states! Of course, due to obstacles and unforeseen distractions, we were too late and tickets ran out. :(
But...basically this film festival is the BIGGEST of its kind in all of Asia. They have turned Haeundae beach into the "festival village" and have tents and such on the sand. Sara and I missed the film festival part of the venue since it runs during the day and we are either working or sleeping, but got to witness countless numbers of people sitting on the beach, lighting off fireworks and drinking after hours. Quite a sight.
Friday (10/4) was a national holiday here in South Korea. It was independence day...that's right, the anniversary of South Korea breaking off from North Korea and becoming its own separate nation. No one worked...except for us kids at CDI of course! Only half of my students showed up to school, since all public schools were closed for the day anyways. Only the little shits that misbehave attended..just my luck!
I have these 2 kids in my last class, lowest level, Troy and Josh. These kids are twins, smart as ever, but always misbehaving and competing with one another, sometimes physically. Honestly, I don't really care what they do, because they are pretty sharp when it comes to the lessons, but they are such a distraction to my other kids...who aren't the brightest crayons in the box already. I was warned about them by my head instructor and how the staff has tried to put them in different classes or on different schedules, but their mother refuses. They have always been quite problematic. So my HI told me that I needed to make an example out of one of them...either one, whoever pissed me off more that day, and just kick them out of class. Even though I'm not very fond of belittling children in my day to day life, I just about had it on Friday...so i picked Troy and kicked him out. To my absolute disappointment, none of the Korean teachers would come to my aid and the branch manager took him out of class for 5 minutes and brought him back, candy in hand!
Since then, I have tried using other tactics to make them behave. Monday was amazing! They sat the whole time in class and participated and only disrupted anyone once! Yay for the evil genius that can manipulate young Korean children's minds!
Other than the film festival (or being the vicinity of the film festival while not actually viewing movies) it hasn't been very eventful here. We have discovered a couple of really cool foreigner bars.
Which reminds me...Sara and I requested songs at a bar called Thursday Party and were dancing around to them like cool kids...and the people that had been here for 8 months had never heard them before! Super overplayed songs like "Go Girl" and "When I Grow Up" and my FAVORITE, "Swing"! Please friends...do not let me be that person that is so musically out of the loop! Let me know what's in! Save me from Korean musical damnation!
Ok, sorry for the side note...
But ya, foreigner bars! Its nice to hear English being spoken fluently! What else have we done? O, ya...lots of casino-ing...to my wallets dismay. I don't lose too much, but I really hate gambling so it upsets me.
Sara ate chicken ass hole...and surprise, surprise, it tasted like shit!
OOOOO I acquired a couch for our humble abode! FRIGGIN FINALLY there is something in our living room. We are getting a TV from a friend this week and hopefully (fingers crossed) will have a beer pong table set up within the month!
and...drum roll please....the long awaited premier of our apartment video!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YfA-DeoUgF0
I'm going to keep putting pics up on facebook so check them out!
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1 comment:
Erika!!!!
I miss you! And reading your blog totally makes me jealous...I wish I could have come with you girls.
Will try to remain faithful to your blogging.
Love, Shay
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