Having an "I love Korea" moment.

The expat community where I live (and maybe elsewhere, I don't know). Has this saying, that you either love Korea, or hate it, and it changes weekly! Right now I love it.

Mon-Wed was pretty sketch.

Sometimes ten more months here feels like an ETERNITY.

Sometimes I'm already dreading going home!

Last night I had a dream that I went back to Canada. I broke my contract after 2.5 months and went home.

However, I had to live with my mother and step-father, because I was broke, and my little brother was in the same situation!

So my little brother and I were living at home again, and my mother felt like a failure, because she raised two children who refused to work and she still had to support us.

The dream was pretty convincing that I should stay here for a full year!

(Not that I've ever seriously considered leaving early, I knew from day 1 that I couldn't afford to break my contract. I won't either, unless something dire happens, like North Korea decides to do whatever, or something bad happens at home).




Today as a warm-up game, I played 'guess how many coins are in my hands' with the grade 3's. I had ten coins, I'd put some in my closed hands, shake, and ask the kids, 'how many?'. I was expecting a medicore response to this, I just wanted to say the phrase 'how many' and have them use numbers, but THEY LOVED IT.

I was like, really?

'3 coins teacha?'
'higher'
MEMEMEMEMEME!!!! (all raising their hands, jumping out of their seats)
'2 coins?' (a student not getting the 'higher' concept even though I'm POINTING UP)
'AHHHH NOOOOO NOOOOO (all the other students)
MEMEMEMEMEMEME
'4 coins?'
'higher'
'5 coins?' (They would only go up by one, they were so scared to miss the number)
'higher'
'6 coins'
'that's right'
YAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I can't even express how extravegent their reactions were compared to the lameness of the activity we were doing. It might even have been the most successful game I've ever played! We ended up playing for ten minutes longer than the original two I had alloted this activity. When I finally moved on, they were broken-hearted.

Man, they're cute!