Next week is Halloween celebrations (glad I looked at the calendar to check) and it's Market Day. Everyday we're meant to give the mildly behaved kids 5 stickers. If they're really good, give them 10. If the lesson is over and we have another 15 minutes left, I sometimes play games with stickers as rewards. I've given out a 15 x 16 sheet of stickers once. I thought I'd get in trouble for it but apparently LA did that regularly with his classes when he still worked here. It was kind of a fuck you to the school since he didn't care for them. 15 stickers are equivalent to "1,000 won," I think. It's hard to say for sure since none of us native teachers have seen a Market Day yet, but even if they are worth that much, the prices of everything on M-Day are jacked up so a pencil costs 1,000 when you could get a pack of twenty for that at Lotte Mart.
Also on that day, we're meant to tell kids scary stories, dress up in costumes, and do the Halloween musical and songs&dance. When I was still thinking the Halloween celebrations were this week, I panicked and looked up a hundred stories and started reciting them because initially they told us we had to spend 10 minutes telling the story so I was testing the length. 10 minutes is a long time to talk especially to memorize something they'd understand. But now that responsibility has fallen to England and Minnesota since they don't teach as many classes as Australia and I. Minnesota has 2 Kinder per day, England has 0, Australia has 3, and I have 4. :l I'm starting to think I'm getting shafted and I should ask for more moolah but I missed my chance. I should've done that when they were hurting for native teachers a few months ago, or at least asked for a level schedule. I wouldn't've done it anyway. I'm a chicken and I don't need more money.
Though I still worry about money. I shouldn't. I really shouldn't. I don't buy shit and I hoard my savings like Dickens thought the Jews did. He was a bit racist. He used the Stage-Jew and Stage-Black in just about every story. But I just transferred 3,000,000 to my parents to stick in my account (which was a huge panic for me and I went in three times and basically watched TV as I waited for their number at each teller to tick to mine and when it did, I'd ask "English?" and they'd point me to the one lady who did but she was the busiest and so I left after watching a Korea soap because I was running out of time in my head where I have to be super punctual and early, not in reality) and I have another 1,200,000 (do my big balances impress you? *ahem* please ignore the exchange rate) still in Korea and I feel like I couldn't go through that money in a month if I tried. Even with bills and boxing and everything, I'd have to travel every weekend or go out for Western style food every night (Pizza Hut maybe?) or buy a whole new wardrobe (which I might for fall/winter work clothes, though not 1,200,000 worth). God, that was some awful exposition. But when the talk of "costumes" came up, I was immediately worried about spending money. I'm cheap. I know I am. Only for myself though as I spend like $100 on my friend if I think it's a funny gift (I bought us matching Sex Gongs that we'd ring every time we got lucky and we liked to think the other could hear(did not actually ring it because of sex except the one time I was explaining it to a lucky someone)). Luckily the school has costumes. I'm not sure what they are, but I'd rather be dressed dumb than spend money (and probably still be dressed dumb).
While practicing the Halloween musical today, my favorite Dolphin student has recently been taking a shine to me (Rachel from this post where she told me she loved me in the midst of giggles) and she fell off her chair because the song required the kids act like ghosts and she rolled her eyes back and just lost her balance. She was fine and laughing about it and we went back to singing but I couldn't hear her screechy voice above the rest of the students like I usually can. I looked to her and she was turned around, biting the back of the chair (maybe sucking on it). I thought she might've hurt her mouth or lost a tooth or something but she really was okay. Then I panicked because maybe she was hurt that I didn't spend more time doting on her because she take quite a tumble onto hard tile. Or maybe I had done something else without realizing. She wouldn't talk to me though which is weird because she's generally pretty vocal. I clowned a bit for her and it got a second of smile but nothing lasting and I held out my finger and she grabbed it and held it but still wouldn't talk to me and even Luna, the most likely to be a K-pop star, couldn't comfort her or get her talking. But Chris, this little shit (and I mean that in a good way) who I go back and forth on because he can be funny but he's not cute and he doesn't have a sense of timing, was apologizing. Chris often goes too far and makes the girls cry. I don't know what he was apologizing for but eventually Silvia-teacher came in the room and Rachel, Luna, and Chris all went to talk to her. I never found out the story, but I felt awful Rachel couldn't open up to me. I like to think we're buddies.
I'm planning on getting a wireless router tomorrow or Wednesday. I'm sick of not having internet on my phone (how will I update my Angry Birds!? Or download the newest Temple Run clone?) and they have them at Lotte Mart just a skip away. But I'm worried I won't find them easily and I'll have to ask and they won't understand me so I'll just go away and order it online and be stuck with shipping fees and they'll call me (costing me another meal at McDonald's) to say they can't deliver it to my apartment because they don't understand the address so they need my school's address, which worries me because I don't want to send packages to the school. They're completely okay with it but in my mind it's a burden on them or unprofessional or something. I'm not ordering big floppy dildos or candy or anything. I've ordered a power converter and possibly a router but still!
I have a lot of doubts and worries people generally reassure me that I'm just nuts. It's comforting.
Maybe I'll have a song of the week. Or a song for today. This week's is Frank Turner - If I Ever Stray. He's my current musical obsession.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVx2RuANAyk&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL9DFD9715052F30D0
Also on that day, we're meant to tell kids scary stories, dress up in costumes, and do the Halloween musical and songs&dance. When I was still thinking the Halloween celebrations were this week, I panicked and looked up a hundred stories and started reciting them because initially they told us we had to spend 10 minutes telling the story so I was testing the length. 10 minutes is a long time to talk especially to memorize something they'd understand. But now that responsibility has fallen to England and Minnesota since they don't teach as many classes as Australia and I. Minnesota has 2 Kinder per day, England has 0, Australia has 3, and I have 4. :l I'm starting to think I'm getting shafted and I should ask for more moolah but I missed my chance. I should've done that when they were hurting for native teachers a few months ago, or at least asked for a level schedule. I wouldn't've done it anyway. I'm a chicken and I don't need more money.
Though I still worry about money. I shouldn't. I really shouldn't. I don't buy shit and I hoard my savings like Dickens thought the Jews did. He was a bit racist. He used the Stage-Jew and Stage-Black in just about every story. But I just transferred 3,000,000 to my parents to stick in my account (which was a huge panic for me and I went in three times and basically watched TV as I waited for their number at each teller to tick to mine and when it did, I'd ask "English?" and they'd point me to the one lady who did but she was the busiest and so I left after watching a Korea soap because I was running out of time in my head where I have to be super punctual and early, not in reality) and I have another 1,200,000 (do my big balances impress you? *ahem* please ignore the exchange rate) still in Korea and I feel like I couldn't go through that money in a month if I tried. Even with bills and boxing and everything, I'd have to travel every weekend or go out for Western style food every night (Pizza Hut maybe?) or buy a whole new wardrobe (which I might for fall/winter work clothes, though not 1,200,000 worth). God, that was some awful exposition. But when the talk of "costumes" came up, I was immediately worried about spending money. I'm cheap. I know I am. Only for myself though as I spend like $100 on my friend if I think it's a funny gift (I bought us matching Sex Gongs that we'd ring every time we got lucky and we liked to think the other could hear(did not actually ring it because of sex except the one time I was explaining it to a lucky someone)). Luckily the school has costumes. I'm not sure what they are, but I'd rather be dressed dumb than spend money (and probably still be dressed dumb).
While practicing the Halloween musical today, my favorite Dolphin student has recently been taking a shine to me (Rachel from this post where she told me she loved me in the midst of giggles) and she fell off her chair because the song required the kids act like ghosts and she rolled her eyes back and just lost her balance. She was fine and laughing about it and we went back to singing but I couldn't hear her screechy voice above the rest of the students like I usually can. I looked to her and she was turned around, biting the back of the chair (maybe sucking on it). I thought she might've hurt her mouth or lost a tooth or something but she really was okay. Then I panicked because maybe she was hurt that I didn't spend more time doting on her because she take quite a tumble onto hard tile. Or maybe I had done something else without realizing. She wouldn't talk to me though which is weird because she's generally pretty vocal. I clowned a bit for her and it got a second of smile but nothing lasting and I held out my finger and she grabbed it and held it but still wouldn't talk to me and even Luna, the most likely to be a K-pop star, couldn't comfort her or get her talking. But Chris, this little shit (and I mean that in a good way) who I go back and forth on because he can be funny but he's not cute and he doesn't have a sense of timing, was apologizing. Chris often goes too far and makes the girls cry. I don't know what he was apologizing for but eventually Silvia-teacher came in the room and Rachel, Luna, and Chris all went to talk to her. I never found out the story, but I felt awful Rachel couldn't open up to me. I like to think we're buddies.
I'm planning on getting a wireless router tomorrow or Wednesday. I'm sick of not having internet on my phone (how will I update my Angry Birds!? Or download the newest Temple Run clone?) and they have them at Lotte Mart just a skip away. But I'm worried I won't find them easily and I'll have to ask and they won't understand me so I'll just go away and order it online and be stuck with shipping fees and they'll call me (costing me another meal at McDonald's) to say they can't deliver it to my apartment because they don't understand the address so they need my school's address, which worries me because I don't want to send packages to the school. They're completely okay with it but in my mind it's a burden on them or unprofessional or something. I'm not ordering big floppy dildos or candy or anything. I've ordered a power converter and possibly a router but still!
I have a lot of doubts and worries people generally reassure me that I'm just nuts. It's comforting.
Maybe I'll have a song of the week. Or a song for today. This week's is Frank Turner - If I Ever Stray. He's my current musical obsession.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVx2RuANAyk&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL9DFD9715052F30D0
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