News..... Busan, Sean, Jeremy and MADE.

The longest weekend in my 25 year history came to an end last night (this morning) at around 1:00am. Usually when someone refers to something as being long, in terms of a time frame, they’re making reference to the emotion of boredom or an elongated waste of time, that could, and should of, been spent elsewhere or with more tact and planning. My long weekend was nothing like the above. It was a consistent flow of laughter, relaxation and consumerism (i.e. food, coffee, soju, beer, water, sand, etc). It was relentless in the same way that a cat paws its way into comfort on your lap. The only pause we had was the three hour train journey from B-A.

The weekend was spent between restaurants, the beach, hotel/condo rooms, noraebangs and a number of walkways, escalators and street crossings. Sleep deprivation was a problem, as was indecision, but not in a million years would it have been detrimental to the even-flow of the weekends activities. All in all a successful and thoroughly enjoyable few days away. Next stop???!!! Picture is of lots of happy teachers taking a photo with some eager Koreans.

Other news:

A small conversation worthy of a mention. This is only significant to me, therefore significant as a blog, as Giovanna and I have recently had numerous jokes to do with the amount of produce that is ‘MADE in China’. So one of my afternoon ESL classes consists of four boys whose ability is a weak as my ability would be, to handle a tarantula whilst walking a tight-rope over a 300ft drop.

This is how it played out.

Toby Teacher: (pointing at the door) What is that?
All class: Door.
Toby Teacher: What colour is it?
All class: Green.
Toby Teacher: What are doors made from? (obviously hoping for the answer ‘tree’)
Glen: Made in China.

Genius.

Also an update from Red and Blue class. In the last week Sean left. Sean was the boy that struggled to progress. I have taught him for 9 months now and he moved on last week. I wish him luck. His departure will create a hole, but it will also create more time for me to focus on those abilities that can and hopefully will progress.

I played ‘Simon Says’ with Red and Blue combined today. The little legend that is Jeremy, from Red class, only went a won the game. He has been in this ‘English as a second language’ malarkey 12 months less than ALL the others, but he cruised to victory, reminiscent to that of C. Ronaldo, scoring the most goals this season. Watch this space, Jezzer is here and he isn’t going anywhere.

Laters.