Teaching went a bit better today. I felt more at ease with most of the students, and I went in with a bit more preparation, so things fell into place fairly well. Among other things: I played “Simon Says” with the Kindergartners, I reviewed/taught (very big) numbers to my Primary School students, and I tried desperately to get most of my Middle School conversation students to talk. My sore throat is mostly gone, but now so is my voice.
I went grocery shopping at Hanwha Mart after work. Hanwha Mart is the Super K-Mart of South Korea, with everything from computers to socks to live anchovies to a whole aisle of ramen noodles. It’s a very large and very confusing place — you have to walk through an entire floor of clothes in order to get to the sloped moving walkway that takes you to the food area, and I still don’t know exactly how I ended up getting out of there. Koreans apparently have a thing for Vienna sausages — I saw them in an unsettling number of places in that store, in an even more unsettling array of shapes and sizes. Unfortunately, Koreans apparently don’t have a thing for real cheese — lots and lots of processed American slices, absolutely no actual cheddar or swiss.
Loving the site….I’m addicted to it….checking it daily… What a charming escape from my monotonous corporate existence. Now that there are pictures, I couldn’t be any closer to the experience if I was even closer to the experience. How about some picks of the rest of the apartment?
pictures of the vienna sausage too please…..
Ah… it’s illegal to photograph Vienna sausages in South Korea.