Well a boring Tuesday night, got sick of watching movies so I'll throw in this quick entry. First week of vacation has come and gone, reading and exploring the town were on the docket, saved some money and laid low. Probably best for my body and my wallet. So in the end I think it was a good thing. Also the first weekend I've spent in Gurye since being here. The last time was my very first weekend, and doubt I'll be doing that for a long while now.
Back to class yesterday, felt like I had been away for a month, not 10 days. But only 3 hours of "teaching" and with film camp, super easy. Everything is pretty fluid and there is no solid lesson so everything is done on the fly. Surprise surprise romance films were not high up on their list, so yesterday was a bit hit or miss, but luckily they brought in Mr. Bean, so that's an easy reliance. Surprising though is that they all fell for horror today, barely made 2.5 hours yesterday with comedy, romance and mr. bean, but maxed out today with only doing horror. They loved Insidious and Friday the 13th which surprised me. Plus now they seem a little more pumped to come up with their own movie.
I'll also be doing a "tutoring" session wiht one of the grade 3s, aka, we'll get lunch and just shoot the shit for a couple hours in the afternoon. Today was one of the quickest days I've had yet, and now that all the teachers are on vacay and I'll be one of the verryyyyy few in the school, everything is going to be way more lax so it should be good. Plus the tutoring session gives me a chance to help the one student with his English and he can help me with my Korean while we talk about culture, so it should be fun. Felt bad though, we were talking about schooling and was talking to him about how I felt with University and the possibilities that came out of it (esp. coming to Korea and travelling), basically he came down to the Korean way is going to University for a year, do military service, finish University then work your asses off until retirement and that's that, with no fun. And I can kind of see that, Koreans are always working with no break (the adults) and the students are constantly studying or going to classes. We get a legit vacation in the summer, but here there vacation is in the winter but they still have classes, and private classes, and study constantly. Crazy, but at least we can compare cultures now and go from there. Plus a mac n cheese lunch sometime in the next couple of weeks should make for an ace time before Cambodia! Can't wait to lie on the beaches and feel the warmth again. I can get through Winters in Canada, but I've had about enough of this winter here.
Hope everyone's doing well back home and 2012 is getting off to a killer start so far!
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