Saturday, January 16, 2010

Day 394

Friday January 15

Ouch..my mouth hurts!! And there's nothing I can do about it. I wonder how long it will be before it heals.

When I was on my way to work this morning it was snowing in Seoul again. There wasn't any accumulation though. It was just for a short time. The temps have risen a little. It was in the high 20s today which is a lot better than the teens!

My first class was great..definaly my favorite this semester..they are perfect students all the time..they are well behaved and put forth the effort to learn..Today was our newspaper class. One of our articles was about England's biggest bull.They were surprised by how big the bull was.



We had an article about a korean who went to harvard and one of the boys called her ugly…They all beg to read first…I like their enthusiasm….I let the person who asked first….they enjoyed all the articles…we talked about popular names in england…one of the boys kept telling me he wanted to change his name and he kept listing girls names…just to be funny….they are a great class.

My 2nd class was okay..they aren’t as interested in the articles..they don’t pay attention all the time…I have to beg them to write answers…

3rd class was good…took all 9 of them out to get tteokbokki. Then we took a test on the newspaper. I give them the articles to test their reading comprehension. A lot of them did good. Some of them cant find the answers and one boy doesn’t even try. He made a 0. He just wrote random answers. Then we studied 3 pages of new material. Today we were talking about listening to music, talking on the phone, watching tv, doing homework, etc. They were well behaved in class. Monday we will wrap it up and have a test.

My last class was good. I hate that it takes to much time to take the tests that we dont have enough time to cover a lot of material. We had a newspaper test today. They both made 100. Then we had a spelling test. One boy made a 10. The other student made 100. I just don't know what to do about the student who constanly gets low grades. He knows about the tests in advance. He just doesn't retain the information. We learned a new set of words today but only got one page of work done in the book. near the end of the month I may skip one of the newspaper classes and concentrate on spelling to get somewhat caught up.

I found out what those things are that I like in a bakery called Tous LesJours. They are vegetable croquettes. They are so delicious!

Got to get up early in the morning. I scheduled an appointment at a clinic to get some tests done. I'm going to get a test that will measure cholesterol, liver function, kidney function,etc. I have to be there at 11:15. Its not covered by insurance so I have to pay the full price. 120,000 won which is around $120

I've decided I'm not going out to the exhibit with the girl who I met on Wednesday. I just want to rest on Saturday.

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