Day 384

Tuesday January 5

current temp: 12 degrees F

Exchange: 1146 krw = 1 usd (i hope it stays low or gets even lower when I transfer money to my american bank account...lower exchange rate = more usd to send home!)

1st class was good. We did one speaking lesson about various issues.The title of the lesson was “I don’t understand”.We talked about things like wars, studying, weight, rich helping the poor, and parents being too busy. I thought it was a boring lesson. The students didn’t know how to answer some of the questions.They all did good on the newspaper quiz.I should have brought extra material. We finished 15 mins early. At least they got some time to study for their vocab test. They were really quiet and everyone was studying.

2nd class was okay. We talked about why questions and making questions. They did okay. I had to help them with most of the questions. They came up with a few questions by themselves. The 2 boys didn’t bring their book and they were drawing all over their copy that I made for them and talking in class. At the end of class they were going to throw away their class work sheets. I told them to give it to me. I’ll keep it for them.

3rd class was newspaper class. I had 9 students in class.I had 2 new students and 2 students from mwf showed up today. Today we talked about a travelling dog, green sheep, obama got vaccinated, and foods people eat on New Years. It was a pretty good class. Some of the students like to talk during the listening but at least most of them participated. I really wish we had more interesting articles that kids would like. I usually pick 4 articles that are not totally boring. I usually have around 10 to pick from. One of the students told me that the 'animals' article was the best so I always make sure to have it. I have various topics to choose from 'world news', 'national news', 'people','animals', 'amazing news', 'science', 'special focus', 'english letters' and 'think and talk'.

4th class was good…We did two speaking lessons-one on instant food and the other kids getting fatter…They all did good in class. We finished and then we had free time to play a game.

Its really cold! I think the temp was around 18-20 the whole day. About an hour ago it was 9 degrees with a windchill of 0..it felt like zero! I'm glad I wasn't outside. I'm inside and my heat is turned up high! Ondols are great!

There are piles of snow everywhere. They clear off the walkways and just put the snow in a big pile. They put calcium chloride on the roads. I think now is the only time Koreans don't drive like maniacs.They seem to be driving well for the conditions.

I can't find an episode of "The Bachelor" on the site that I use for downloads. Hopefully someone will put it up soon or I can find it somewhere.

There was another new show that I downloaded. Its called Conveyor belt of love...oh my..what will they think of next?

I watched "Conveyor Belt of Love". It is a crazy show! 30 men come out on a conveyor belt one at a time and they have 60 seconds to impress 5 women. Each woman gets to pick one man.At least 2 of the women found out that they didn't like the person they chose after going on a date with them. One man couldn't every give a straight answer about anything. One man was put off by the way the woman kept mentioning marriage which wasn't something he wanted to talk about on the first date. One couple really seemed to hit it off-the funny guy and the girl with the annoying accent.

you can really find out a lot about a person when you google them. I think one of the guys was just on the show for publicity for his book. He mentioned his book when he was on stage. He even got picked by one of the ladies, but she ended up letting him go for someone else. I looked him up since he actually mentioned his whole name. I actually thought he was a cute guy. Then I found "his" website. He used to be a woman and now he is a man. He actually went to high school in Charlotte, NC(that's near where I live). That would have been weird if he would have gotten picked. When would you bring up that fact? "hey I used to be a woman". Most straight women are looking for a real man. I want a man who was born a man.