Thursday, September 28, 2006
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Kara celebrating her birthday in style at a No Reh Bang (karaoke room) with two of our waygokin posse, Steve and, er, Steve.
Happy Birthday Kara!
It was Kara's birthday on Saturday. She thought she was turning 26 but for some reason in Korea, when you are born you are already 1. So actually it was Happy 27th, Kara Teacher!
x
Po Sung!
This is me with Po Sung, the hagwon owner's younger daughter, in our (tastefully decorated) apartment. She may look cute (and, actually she is), but she's got a proper violent streak too. She's not content unless she's ripping up our classroom decorations or biting us and salivating like a rabid dog!
Aaaahh.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Hello, How Are You?
Hello, how are you? Hello, how are you?
...is the song we sing every morning to our kindergarten class of 3 kids! We've been in Korea for just over a month now but have been keeping very poor contact with you folks back home, so have decided to keep a blog where we can post pics and share fond memories of our experiences corrupting the minds of young brats by learning them colloquial English of the Scouse and/or Geordie variety!
Kara and I play good cop, bad cop daily to a trio of precociously gifted 5 year olds (well, 2 of them are precociously gifted and one is a man-faced girl with ADD, but we love them all dearly!), before splitting up to teach elementary classes of older kids a few afternoons a week. We came here via Dubai and Seoul and have so far explored Daegu and Busan in Korea, as well as going to Fukuoka in Japan last week to get our visas. Geochang is a small town in the South East, surrounded by mountains and three national parks. We are something of local celebs here along with the dozen or so other 'waygokins' (foreigners). All the kids stare and say hi, and all the old men ogle Kara (one told her last night at the annual festival/fair-type thing, 'You are what makes Geochang beautiful!' ...I thought it was maybe the spectacular scenery or something, but apparently not...)
Anyway, more to follow soon, with photos and such.
Love to all
x
...is the song we sing every morning to our kindergarten class of 3 kids! We've been in Korea for just over a month now but have been keeping very poor contact with you folks back home, so have decided to keep a blog where we can post pics and share fond memories of our experiences corrupting the minds of young brats by learning them colloquial English of the Scouse and/or Geordie variety!
Kara and I play good cop, bad cop daily to a trio of precociously gifted 5 year olds (well, 2 of them are precociously gifted and one is a man-faced girl with ADD, but we love them all dearly!), before splitting up to teach elementary classes of older kids a few afternoons a week. We came here via Dubai and Seoul and have so far explored Daegu and Busan in Korea, as well as going to Fukuoka in Japan last week to get our visas. Geochang is a small town in the South East, surrounded by mountains and three national parks. We are something of local celebs here along with the dozen or so other 'waygokins' (foreigners). All the kids stare and say hi, and all the old men ogle Kara (one told her last night at the annual festival/fair-type thing, 'You are what makes Geochang beautiful!' ...I thought it was maybe the spectacular scenery or something, but apparently not...)
Anyway, more to follow soon, with photos and such.
Love to all
x
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