Chapter 2: "Don't come near me or I'll hit you with my toilet papers."

My kitchen-area!!



My unreasonably large bed, but eh, if it were any smaller, the room would look weird :-)



Lol, still haven't unpacked.



View from my laundry room :-D


Monday...the beginning of my first full week of classes. My Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are pretty long, with 7 classes total. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have 6 classes. Today went fairly well, except some of the students go really fast and work ahead when they finish the exercise, and others just sit there....and do nothing, even when I tell them to do the exercise. If anybody acts up, I can tell on them to the Korean teachers, who are allowed to hit the kids with sticks (and do, with some frequency I am told, haha).

I have on class of kids who are a bit older, and judging by the level of English they are working on in their textbooks, they should be quite adept, but every time I ask them to do something, they give me these deadpan stares and start talking in Korean -_- I let them, because I can tell they're studious, and aren't just chatting it up, but still, I have to wonder...

The window in my bathroom is broken, so it's always cracked and letting in cold air. It's a great little room to drop your pants in. The toilet is dirty with....I don't know what, but I'm not sitting on it, kthnx.

This past Saturday I went to a huge market, and I want to go back. It was huge, and there were dead pheasants and maggots, neither of which I have attempted to eat yet. Or plan to.

Speaking of food, I've outsmarted my kitchen, and am now able to feed myself in the likely event I am not eating out with the other teachers. I'm also attempting to learn how to order take-out. At about $2 a pop, takeout is something I think I will utulize very often here.

This evening I bought myself toilet paper. It was huge, because they only had 24-roll packs. I prolly won't need to buy any more for the next six months. It was a little embarrassing, walking down the street with a pack of toilet paper bigger than some of the children I teach.