Poor kid

I wasn't going to post anything today, but due to popular demand...here I am! Today was another day in Kwangju, S. Korea. The past two days have actually been excellant. I just feel like I'm truely getting settled and I live here now. Everyday I obviously teach, but I try to learn something new while also trying to reinforce and remember the old things -- my Korean still sucks. Maybe next week I'll instantaneous pick it up. We do have winter break and I do actually plan to study and practice. Hopefully I can atleast get Hangul, the Korean alphabet down by this next week.

This morning the topic of the day for my Kindergarteners was Science. We had little toy circle things that had a dip in the middle of it. The goal was to get the "wheel" or ball into the dip by moving the circle toy in a circular motion. For the most part, most of the kids got it right away and it was super easy, but unfortunately it wasn't easy for everyone. One of my kids could not do this to save his life. Like I said above, you just had to move the toy in a circular motion, but no not Jason. As I'm helping other students I look over to see Jason doing this:

Jason was vigoriously shacking his toy and crying uncontrollably. As you can see, he was really upset that he couldn't do it. After seeing this, I immediately went over and as I started to help, Mr. Independent jerked the toy away and continued to shack the toy and cry. I of course tried to comfort him, but could only handle about 15 seconds of it before I was forced to turn around to cover my mouth from laughter.

Tomorrow I get my health results back. Hopefully I'm clean and passed. tomorrow is also another special activities day - Christmas! We have fun festivities planned for the whole morning: making snowman and....well, that's all I actually know, but there are three other stations. It should be fun!