Day 404

Monday January 25

I saw a Korean on the subway today with a cd player walkman. I can't remember the last time I saw one of those! I thought the Ipod had wiped out the walkmans!

Random fact: I still haven't given in and gotten an Ipod.

1st class was good.I gave them their newspaper test first.Then I started writing numbers on the board and they started calling out what order they wanted to go in for the speaking test. 2 students weren't enthusiastic about what order they wanted so they just got what was left. I only had enough time to do 5 of the 10 speaking tests. They did pretty good. I’ll give the other 5 on Wednesday. Plus a writing test.

2nd class was good…I gave them newspaper test. 2 of them made 30 and one 70. One of them just chooses random answers. I told him to read the question and choose the answer. Then I gave them time to study for their speaking test. They all did pretty good on their speaking test. This one was pretty easy.

I called about my cell phone. I can cancel at anytime. Even though my contract is up it still works until I cancel. They probably thought I was stupid. Haha. I just assumed that if my contract was up then I wouldn't still have cell service. I just take my alien card to a phone shop and they will cancel it for me. Good. I still have a phone.

My 3rd class was pretty good today. First we finished up the unit and reviewed. Then we took a test. Most of them were trying to cheat and some were cheating. One student doesn't even really try. He made a 15 on the test. We didn't really have time to cover any new material. We need to cover a unit a week to finish by the end of Feb. so I'm going to skip the newspaper this class and teach new material.

I had a new student today in my spelling class. A girl. She’s in the lowest level. She speaks to me in Korean, but I don’t know what she’s saying! They did very good in class today. We had a good lesson and covered 4 pages. The boy who always has trouble got 4 words right today. Lately he’s only been getting 1.

After work I went to my 4th dentist appointment. Today I was getting prepped for a crown. Today I got a temporary crown. Next Monday the real crown goes on. That will be my 5th appointment. That was a long process for a root canal and a crown!

Afterwards I went to COEX mall to eat at Burger King. I walked around for a little while. I went into this store that has a lot of exported products to look around. They had Lays potato chips for 8,000 won. I would have liked to have some, but I'm not paying close to 8 usd!! They also had fisher peanuts for 20,000 won. WOW. almost 20 dollars for peanuts that you get in America for around 4-5 dollars I think. A can of the select campbell's soup was 6,000 won (almost 6 dollars). It costs around 1.50 in the USA. Exported products are so high here! Thankfully, I'm not that desperate for American products. I am not paying 8 dollars for a bag of potato chips!!

I have some interesting articles picked out for the newspaper class this week: World's smallest chiuahua, World's largest carp, a 14 year old going to college and Japan loves Kimchi.

I keep putting off making my writing tests! I have to give writing tests on Wednesday and Thursday so I'll have to make them tomorrow night!! No more procrastinating!