Day 391

Tuesday January 12

Its cold!

I have nothing interesting to talk about these days. If you fall asleep by the time you get to the end of the entry, I understand.

Current temp:18 degrees F

Exchange: 1128 krw = 1 usd. The exchange rate has been falling steadily recently. When I transferred money home the rate with IBK was 1137 on Monday morning.

I've been wasting a lot of time on Twitter lately.

My 1st class was good….The topic of our first lesson was “do you believe?".There were topics such as justice, miracles, unconditional love. One student said all love is conditional (not unconditional). A parent's love, friendships and her relationship with her parents is conditional. Our second topic was rules-for a fan of a sporting team and at a swimming pool.

I had a new student in my 2nd class.The boys wont be quiet during class..I keep telling to be quiet and they just mock me..The two chatty boys are talking to each other constantly and wont put away their phones.the new boy and his friend wont stop talking to each other….Today our lesson was about making questions and Santa Claus.

My 3rd class was okay. It was our newspaper class. We talked about the biggest bull in England, most popular british names of 2009 and a Korean American who is a Harvard newspaper editor. Almost everyone participated in class. When I asked questions no one was really looking for the answers except one or 2 people. The 2 chatty boys were talking and had to tell to be quiet.

The last class was great…We had a speaking lesson on arguing and littering. The boys said they litter and the girls don’t.We had a good discussion. One of our questions was "Who is to blame for our environmental problems?" What kind of question is that for kids to answer? I don't think 11-12 year olds even think about environmental problems. They don't know how to answer that. I don't even know how to answer. I just told them "Everyone is responsible for the environmental problems." Its one of those things where there isn't a wrong or right answer. You can't pinpoint an exact cause. Then I let them play a game. We played the game where you start a new word from the last letter of the previous one. They did a good job. We played the game for 20 minutes.

Beyonce's "Video Phone" MV is on tv right now. I think its the most stupid song!