It just keeps going and going and going...

Winter Intensives are finally over, so you'd think I would get some relief...Yea. Not so much. This month my schedule is much worse than January. Not just that but all my classes are brand new which means I no longer get to teach all the students that I love and got all attached to. It really stinks. I'm very sad that I don't get to have my intensives students anymore. They were so bright I just really enjoyed teaching them. The writing project that I had previously mentioned actually worked. On the last day of Intensives each student in the class got to take home a book of their own writing. I was so proud of them. I photocopied all their stories and Hannah teacher made me a book. I was really happy. Hopefully we will find somewhere to post up some of the best ones.
----- Me with my Winter Intensives Kids.----- They're showing off their books.
But right now we are currently short one foreign teacher and until the two new teachers come at the end of February I am teaching the Kindergarten classload of two teachers. 5 hours a day of Kindies is enough to bring me to my breaking point. By 2 all they want to do is not do any work and just sit there and play with my hair and I just want to let them. Btw the funniest thing happened today. Jin, one of the kinder girls is so sweet and so cute but apparently she has a bad habit of picking here boogers and eating them. Nathan, her previous foreign teacher had warned me of this, but having taught her a few times before and not having seen this I didn't entirely believe him. Well, he was right. Today I catch her picking her nose, the booger is all down her face (lovely picture, I know) and she's sticking out her tongue to lick it when I was like "NO JIN! STOP!" So I ran and grabbed a tissue from my basket and made her blow her nose. It was really gross.
My afternoon classes were no better. I've been used to teaching the Playground and Carnival English levels (which is about intermediate levels, these kids were at least conversational and could follow instructions). I totally had the hang of Playground and Carnival. Now this month most of my classes are Wake-up, which-as the name sounds-is for kids who do not really speak much english. I couldn't even get them to answer the right question. It went a little something like this:
Me: What is this? (pointing to a picture of a flower)
Them: The tree is big. (ignoring my question and just reading the first sentence in the book)
Ugh! I wish I had my old classes back. There's one specific class which is gonna be sorry. They behaved so bad today. I think they were testing boundaries. They will rue the day they messed with Suji teacher. Lol!
But my day was not all bad. After work at 8:30 I walked the two blocks from my school to the Hapkido dojang and got to watch a class. It was AWESOME! They were flipping and jumping all over the place. I'm going to start tomorrow night! I am soooooo excited to start. I'm also really nervous that I'm going to kill myself since i have not really done much physical activity in the last two months. Unless you count the fact that last Saturday I spent about 3-4 hours up on a table dancing...
So last weekend I went to Seoul to visit Jure. On Saturday we went with several of his coworkers to a supposed "Mexican" place, called Casa Loca - random funny side note: it used to be called salsa loca but apparently in Korean salsa means diarrhea, so they changed it. I will go ahead and clarify now that I am extremely skeptical of labels here in Korea because things are usually not what they seem. But wouldn't you know it. It was actual Mexican food, with an actual Mexican in the kitchen cooking it. The food was delicious and after we finished eating I went over and chatted with the chef for a while. He was super nice. Then on Saturday night we headed to Hyungdae (I think) with Som and Jeremiah, who have apparently become our partying buddies. Hyungdae is where a big university is in Seoul so there were a TON of foreigners there. I even ran into a Dominican guy, that was funny. But we ended up at this bar called "Tin Pan" and there were these big long tables in the middle of the bar and before I knew it Som and I were up there dancing. It was really funny cuz I don't think most Koreans can dance (or have even seen dance that looks like) the way I dance. When we finally left at 5AM I was exhausted, and I was sore in my legs and back and butt for like 3 days. Randomly, Jure thought it was really funny to touch my leg while I was dancing but I guess this gave some Korean guy the wrong idea cuz he decided to try to touch my leg and as soon as I felt someone touch me I totally (out of reaction) kicked, and I ended up kind of kicking him (oops, but not really) and then I shook my finger at him and was like "NO!" It was one of those weird but randomly funny things.-----Me and Jure at "TinPan" in Hyungdae (?)----- Som and I on the table dancing.

OH and BTW (in case you hadn't notice) my hair is (almost) black now. I dyed it last week. Just a side note.