A List of Things I Do Every Day in Korea
- Drink green tea
- Play Xbox
- Watch Korean TV shows. I don't understand a word (a few here and there), but they must be funny as hell.
- Use the bathroom
- Mark workbooks and chunk books with red crayons
- Listen to my iPod in my classroom while grading review tests
- Grade review tests
- Write on the white board. Just yesterday, I explained what "wander" meant, and then tried to teach my students the synonym "meander." I think they learned it!
- Attempt to control rambunctious children
- Remind children that they only have 3 minutes before class, so if they have to use the bathroom or drink water, they must do so NOW.
- Count down from 10, 5, or 3 and watch them all scurry back into class.
- Play some silly story that typically deals with feeling alone and being hated by things (balloons, horses, ghosts, weird aliens, your parents, etc.)
- Eat a bagel with PB & J and drink a Double Americano.
- Go eat samkyopsal, which is Korean BBQ. It's cheap, filling, and delicious.
- Think about reading, and then just turn on my flat screen with my 7 speakers and watch some crazy TV show, or a movie. Shawshank Redemption with Korean subtitles, maybe?
- Turn on my computer, projector, air conditioner, monitor, and speakers.
- Take my shoes off before I sit on the floor of a restaurant, or before I enter my, or anyone's, apartment.
- Look on GMarket and think about what kind of small table I should purchase.
- Smoke
- Beat awayJunomamaes, chinese moths that fly like kamikazes and love to land on your clothing.
- Lend kids erasers or pencils
- Dole out hand sanitizer to one child who sneezed in their hands, and then suffer the begging voices of every other student who wants hand sanitizer. It's so strange...
- Tell certain children that their apathetic attitude will only do them a disservice in this classroom, as well as in life in general. Received with blank stares.
- Wake Jason up at least 4 times a class.
- Try and convince Junior Master students they should be trying to read more challenging books, like War of the Worlds, or The Red Badge of Courage. They prefer The Magic Schoolbus.
- Think about going to bed before 1, and fail.
- Unclog my toilet.
- Unclog it again.