sugar

sugar became my best student within the first 10 seconds of meeting her at orientation. no joke. she loves me. she refuses to move up to a more advanced class because of me...heeeee.

anyways yes, today was my first day of actual teaching! at the english village, the classes are split up by levels and each class has a korean teacher and a foreign teacher. the scheduling is complicated so i won't get into that but basically, i could be either, but this week i'm a foreign teacher. i'm assigned C-1 and C-2, the two lowest levels, who basically know extremely little to no english. each class has about 23 students, and this week there's 14 classes so it's a pretty big middle school that came in...everyone says C-1 is always the hardest class to control and toughest to teach but i had a lot of fun with them today, they are so funny~~~ freaking fobs trying to speak english, man. gratuitous entertainment. 

plus this week, the theme class i'm teaching is DANCE! definitely one of the toughest theme classes to teach~ because there's vocab and dance moves and it's very hectic with lots of voice-raising lol...so without a doubt i'm losing my voice this week.

it's pretty crazy having my own class now, because basically you make your own teaching material~ i'm working on some listening exercises right now actually...

everyone here keeps assuming that ernest and i are dating or married or engaged! i think we need to just start telling people that we are siblings because sometimes they don't even believe us when we say we're just friends.

yesterday my 작은고모 and family drove 3 hours out to visit me at the village and buy me dinner which was so sweet of them, and then me ern and chris [another teacher] went out in 양평 for drinks and just hanging out. and i TOLD chris i don't sing in public for free, but still somehow we ended up at 노래방 hahahah ernie tried to sing boom boom pow but BEP just can't be sung on karaoke...

i wish i had a kitchen.....