2011 has started

It’s 7:30 a.m. and I’m wake. I’m not sure if it’s because my body has received the natural 8 hours of sleep we all aim for or because I was in the middle of a scary dream. I had just finished a half marathon to find out both of my feet had fallen off. To top it off, I was also living in my hometown – what a nightmare! Those who know me understand I’m not a runner, I love my feet and I would never move back to my hometown…ever. However, I’m not 100% opposed to training for a half marathon. Maybe, one day in the far future.

2011 has been good to me thus far. New Years Eve was the bomb diggety. The other foreign teachers and I went to a bar called Bubble Bar. It was fun; I drank a lot and danced a lot. Pictures below show how the night evolved. New Years Eve isn't really celebrated in Korea, but since Bubble Bar had a good combination of foreigners and native Koreans we had our own little celebration and countdown. To maintain the integrity of others, most picture were not posted.

Yesterday was the first day back from winter break. Let’s just say it was obnoxious and I was literally annoyed/pissed off from 3pm to about 7pm. Since it was the first day of the new session, we all received new classes, new students and new books. I spent all day attempting to organize myself and wasting class time getting books for students. This doesn’t sound too bad, but while trying to complete this, students continued to be added to my six classes or taken out of my six classes. As a result, it was difficult to get the accurate number of books. A number of times I was given the wrong book or they didn’t have a book for the teacher (this blows my mind) so I spent a lot of time copying the students book so I can plan accordingly for the week. For someone who likes structure and hates wasting time, THIS BLEW. We also didn’t get our final schedule until yesterday so I spent a lot of time figuring out my schedule. I obviously didn't spend my time wisely. For some reason I was under the impression I did not have a 5th period class. So, I thought perfect! I can spend this time clearing my desk of old books, writing my name on the new books and also gather books for my 6th period and Friday classes. It didn't work out this way. Turns out, I did have a 5th period class and I was about 25 minutes late for it. To top it off, we are still short one teacher. I don’t have any open spots to teach those classes, but I do want to give a shout out to the other teachers who are not only working their hours, but also picking up the extra slack! Thank-you!

By the end of the day, I tried to go with the flow and choose my attitude (thank-you Cyclone Aide experience); it all ended up working out just fine. I did get a copy of all books that are being used in my classes, well for the most part. We are stilling waiting to get a few, but every book that my students have, I have. Work is work and hopefully today will be better.

I finally received my alien registration card, so I finally opened my bank account. This means I will get paid on Monday....YAY!!!!