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I am becoming an expert with chopsticks. They use stainless steel chopsticks a lot here so it's kind of like running with ankle weights. When I get the wooden one's I feel like Daniel-son in Karate Kid. I could totally catch flies.

I'm still a little in the dark regarding my teaching curriculum. My co-teachers told me that I should focus on the speaking and listening portions of the book, but I found the lesson plans from the last foreign teacher and he had all kinds of other stuff going on. I think I will supplement the book with some fun activities and speaking practice. 3 lesson plans per week should be pretty nice but I might have to add a couple of classes to teach the teachers too.

Any time I say the words baby or time someone in the class will sing out "baby one more time". This is what they are talking about.



The genre is K-pop. Every Korean loves K-pop. K-pop and ballads. As you can see, Koreans love to throw random English phrases into songs. I wish every Korean girl looked like these ones!!!

Well, I'm off to a lunch buffet "western style" at a place called VIPS (pronounced Vips, not V I P's) then it's bath-house time. I guess they're really relaxing and full of sauna's and other sweat inducing areas. They call them Jim Jae Bongs.

O sha hee si o (this might mean goodbye but the way I've been saying it it probably sounds like Groodbryeee to them)