well this last weekend Kate (the brit) and i headed to chuncheon (the capital city) for the weekend to hang out with some of the other english teachers. well i don't think i've ever eaten so much in my life. we went for famous chuncheon chicken for lunch (with enough left overs to feed an army) then for dinner we had chinese food, then snakes. i don't think i will have to eat again for a week. it was fun and a good break from spending all week siting at a desk.

I've decided that to solve the problems in my apartment i'm going to move into kate's with her. she has a big apartment with lots of space and so i'm going to go korean (get a sleeping mat for the floor) and join her. then we will turn my apartment into the guest house for when we have visitors. this will work out better because kate's apartment is on the same floor as 2 other english teachers (mine is 15 minutes away) and the 4 of us have been making and eating dinner together every night anyways that it just makes sense.

I also started teaching today. well that was a bit of a gong show. boys are...well they are very difficult. they don't like to listen so you spend most of your time trying to keep control of the class. basically, it's going to be a challenge (thank goodness i'm not soft spoken). at least with each class i get a better idea of how to control them and keep them listening (or at least not talking korean to their friend). the key seams to be bribery (candy, games, etc...) any way to bargan with them to listen for 15 minutes and then give them a game (but little do they know that with games they are speaking english also [insert evil laugh here]).