40 Minutes of Hell at a Time

Once this teacher learned that he preferred prowling, probing, and pestering the populous and palatable peopled portions of this previous part of Pangaea the reader’s writer found that he might not need to update as much as you or his blog’s God character might desire—even if he does write awesomely long, awesome sentences. The thing about blogging he’s unearthed is that one must have time to write in order for words to appear on a page and thus allowing you to live out all of your teaching in South Korea dreams vicariously through this modest piece of internet writing.

Well with the New Year we both ended a school year and began another. Too much has really happened in the past month to really remember or do it justice. To summarize I hosted the kinder graduation. Which was fun and I’m sure not even half the parents in attendance were able to really understand most of anything I was even saying. Either way, I looked good in a suit, so you can look at the photos and at least see my prettiness.

With the promotion of some of the less than angelic kinder kids, ridding them from my life for good (as well as losing some of my favorites) came an ominous sound of hooves-- the kind of hooves that only demons make when thundering through the halls of my humble hagwon. I am the main phonics teacher now for two of the new “6” year old kinder classes (meaning some of them might be 4 years old). Thank goodness I still have my best class which is now 7 years old and have one more year at ECC. Some of the kids are way too young and makes me disagree with Korea’s practice of counting everyone’s age together, allowing younger kids to enter into school before they are really ready.

Some of my older kids singing along to Peaches by the Presidents of the USA of Seattle, WA:

From Korea III

 (You may have to scroll down to the bottom of the album??)

Other than the hellions which have been unleashed upon me for 40 minutes at a time I have dropped out of Korean classes but have been continuing to study (but not as much as I should) and my life has gotten a lot easier—though I still can’t find a lot of time to blog, can I?

I’m in love with Korean baseball games now. Its loud all the time, the beers are about $2, and there are cheerleaders. It’s a lot more entertaining game than its American cousin.  I’ll be going to a lot more games. Tickets are no more expensive than $30 for the best seats in the house too. Photos and videos are up.

Anywhom, check out the photos, lots of good ones. Some videos too. You know you love it. Get on it.