i like when things go full circle - so here is a picture from my first rugby tournament at the end of last august on the left. and then a picture from this years rugby tournament on the right. not much has changed in case you were wondering. :)
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
a good day to kick some ass!
oh yes, it was a beautiful day of rugby on saturday. i am able to sit here and tell you that most likely due to
1. my hot yoga teacher liz who has helped me to become more flexible and able to take a hit or a crushing
2. the prayers of my mom for "tough skin and strong bones"
considering our last big game left me with 8 stitches above my left eye, which i am so proud of!
well yesterday another Hong Kong club team came to visit to give us some nice competition. the day was a big day in Korean rugby regardless. the morning started with
9:30am Hong Kong versus Korean Women's National Team
Colts (International School in Seoul) versus Hong Kong U18s
12:10 Hong Kong versus Seoul Sisters (my team)
Hong Kong Men versus Seoul Survivors (the foriegner mens rugby team)
Due to some poor planning and having people coming and going I ended up missing a very crucial practice and due to work, missed another practice....not good things when i really don't know how to play 10s...last game against a different Hong Kong team we played 15s and previously i played 7s in a tournament. So i really had no idea what differences there are. and skipping practice is not always a good idea when you have no idea what you are doing. but there was enthusiasm to watch the game from dee and liz, my coworker, so i just had to hope that i could dress out and sit on the sidelines.
well, this actually worked to my advantage, not coming to practice, and being a forward aka fatty aka a hitter, thats how i like to think of it. seeing that most of the time im not a flake when it comes to rugby and im fairly good at it, fairly being the important word. they asked if i would mind playing for Hong Kong or Korea for the first match for one of the 10 minute halves. sure, why not?
so genieve and i joined the hong kong team to warm up and play with them. how cool is that? i mean they spoke some english but not a whole lot. hahaha, it was so great he's giving the pregame speech and we've got a dude off to the side translating for us. at one point we are all in the huddle he said a bunch of stuff and me and genny are just smiling, and he's like, "do you know what i said?" "yeah!" genny pipes up."um, yeah ive got a positive vibe. um, get the ball, hit hard and don't f*&$ up." at this point they all crack up. everyone knows the f-word. plus genny is just funny. good ol' midwest girl.
so we play our hearts out that first half and we did well. the team did well. we were all they needed. just a few extra 50 pounds to take out some people - especially the seoul sisters that were playing for the korean team. but we ended up playing the second half, which we didnt expect. and considering how well the first half was, they asked me and genny to get the ball and just start plowing through people. first half we focused on taking people down. but now he wanted us carrying the ball. the second half? we were already tired and then this......
we still did well, but we lost by one try. most likely because genny and i were running the ball and getting smashed and still trying to smash peopel. and we might not be in the best shape. hahaha but it was fun. i love language and communication. the girls were sweet and fun and just great to play with.
so after getting a one game break i was asked to play on hong kong's team for another quarter. ok. i was tired but we don't get games that often. but this meant that i wasn't going to get hit by korean girls, i was gonna get hit by the first string of our seoul sisters team. lets just say i like being on my team, not playing against them.
we, hong kong, got pumbled that first quarter. they scored like 10 tries on us. they were fast and big. and our defense was no existant. but we tried hard. granted most of the seoul sisters had yet to play a game that day and this was the second for hong kong. i kept playing hard by telling myself, this is not my team, work your tail off.
then after a break i switched over to the seoul sisters team for one quarter. it was fun. i was so tired but at this point my friends had made it to the game so i had to work hard so they could see me play. hehehe....too bad they weren't there earlier.
it was a great day for rugby. and personally i was really happy with it. im still working on learning offense. run straight. and i learned yesterday, stick your arm out and get them off you. i love watching the girls who know how to play take the ball down the field. fiona and mary are like demons, arms out, yelling, shoving girls to the ground as they head to the try line. mary kept telling me - amber you can do that. really? so i have my next goal.
but defensively i dont know where the energy came from but i was almost always where i needed to be and i made some tackles. with hong kong it probably helped that they were faster so they would already be on the girl but they needed the extra 50 pounds so i would come it and take em down. haha...but there were definitely some good plays where i was like, amber! you did it! this past year of playing is starting to register! hahaha
so right now nothing is broken. ive got a nice bruise on my chin. im sore but not immobile. another hot yoga class will cure that. as i said when i played with hong kong they would get there first and i would just swoop in to help with the take down, and then i more often than not ended up on the bottom of the pile. usually im on top because im too slow and hesitant. but this time i was on the bottom one person would roll on my head smashing it to the right and then another person would land on my body rolling it to the left and i was just like oh my gosh....so my back is a bit sore now. :)
funny story at half time of one of the games someone said, "man, this gravel on the field is ridiculous." i thought to myself, gravel? there is only grass. well next half as i ended up on the bottom of the pile with more girls fall on top of my. someone landed on my head smashing it into the gravel. at that point i thought to myself, "oh, there's the gravel." hahaha i guess in the spots where no grass was growing they just decided to put gravel. smart, eh?......
i had, am thinking about giving up rugby. not because of the sport but more because of the commitment and the social atmosphere. those girls love to party and drink, and im not so good at that. so i usually skip social events thus making it just a wee bit tougher to be socially cool with the girls on saturday morning. plus im kind of an all or nothing person. i dont like halfway crap. and i feel bad if i skip. so i thought maybe i should commit my time to something else for awhile. but the seasons almost over and like yesterday showed me that i am getting it. sure it would be easier to jsut play like pick up soccer on the weekends or something, but the beauty of rugby is that it takes so much of my intellect as wel as physicalness. so if i mess up physically i blame it on the mental part of the game. and vice versa. if i go to a sport i know, then its just that im lazy and out of shape. haha. but i dont know. i like it. its good stuff. plus, how often do you get to hit people? not so often.
thats all for now, from your bruised but never broken amber :P
1. my hot yoga teacher liz who has helped me to become more flexible and able to take a hit or a crushing
2. the prayers of my mom for "tough skin and strong bones"
considering our last big game left me with 8 stitches above my left eye, which i am so proud of!
well yesterday another Hong Kong club team came to visit to give us some nice competition. the day was a big day in Korean rugby regardless. the morning started with
9:30am Hong Kong versus Korean Women's National Team
Colts (International School in Seoul) versus Hong Kong U18s
12:10 Hong Kong versus Seoul Sisters (my team)
Hong Kong Men versus Seoul Survivors (the foriegner mens rugby team)
Due to some poor planning and having people coming and going I ended up missing a very crucial practice and due to work, missed another practice....not good things when i really don't know how to play 10s...last game against a different Hong Kong team we played 15s and previously i played 7s in a tournament. So i really had no idea what differences there are. and skipping practice is not always a good idea when you have no idea what you are doing. but there was enthusiasm to watch the game from dee and liz, my coworker, so i just had to hope that i could dress out and sit on the sidelines.
well, this actually worked to my advantage, not coming to practice, and being a forward aka fatty aka a hitter, thats how i like to think of it. seeing that most of the time im not a flake when it comes to rugby and im fairly good at it, fairly being the important word. they asked if i would mind playing for Hong Kong or Korea for the first match for one of the 10 minute halves. sure, why not?
so genieve and i joined the hong kong team to warm up and play with them. how cool is that? i mean they spoke some english but not a whole lot. hahaha, it was so great he's giving the pregame speech and we've got a dude off to the side translating for us. at one point we are all in the huddle he said a bunch of stuff and me and genny are just smiling, and he's like, "do you know what i said?" "yeah!" genny pipes up."um, yeah ive got a positive vibe. um, get the ball, hit hard and don't f*&$ up." at this point they all crack up. everyone knows the f-word. plus genny is just funny. good ol' midwest girl.
so we play our hearts out that first half and we did well. the team did well. we were all they needed. just a few extra 50 pounds to take out some people - especially the seoul sisters that were playing for the korean team. but we ended up playing the second half, which we didnt expect. and considering how well the first half was, they asked me and genny to get the ball and just start plowing through people. first half we focused on taking people down. but now he wanted us carrying the ball. the second half? we were already tired and then this......
we still did well, but we lost by one try. most likely because genny and i were running the ball and getting smashed and still trying to smash peopel. and we might not be in the best shape. hahaha but it was fun. i love language and communication. the girls were sweet and fun and just great to play with.
so after getting a one game break i was asked to play on hong kong's team for another quarter. ok. i was tired but we don't get games that often. but this meant that i wasn't going to get hit by korean girls, i was gonna get hit by the first string of our seoul sisters team. lets just say i like being on my team, not playing against them.
we, hong kong, got pumbled that first quarter. they scored like 10 tries on us. they were fast and big. and our defense was no existant. but we tried hard. granted most of the seoul sisters had yet to play a game that day and this was the second for hong kong. i kept playing hard by telling myself, this is not my team, work your tail off.
then after a break i switched over to the seoul sisters team for one quarter. it was fun. i was so tired but at this point my friends had made it to the game so i had to work hard so they could see me play. hehehe....too bad they weren't there earlier.
it was a great day for rugby. and personally i was really happy with it. im still working on learning offense. run straight. and i learned yesterday, stick your arm out and get them off you. i love watching the girls who know how to play take the ball down the field. fiona and mary are like demons, arms out, yelling, shoving girls to the ground as they head to the try line. mary kept telling me - amber you can do that. really? so i have my next goal.
but defensively i dont know where the energy came from but i was almost always where i needed to be and i made some tackles. with hong kong it probably helped that they were faster so they would already be on the girl but they needed the extra 50 pounds so i would come it and take em down. haha...but there were definitely some good plays where i was like, amber! you did it! this past year of playing is starting to register! hahaha
so right now nothing is broken. ive got a nice bruise on my chin. im sore but not immobile. another hot yoga class will cure that. as i said when i played with hong kong they would get there first and i would just swoop in to help with the take down, and then i more often than not ended up on the bottom of the pile. usually im on top because im too slow and hesitant. but this time i was on the bottom one person would roll on my head smashing it to the right and then another person would land on my body rolling it to the left and i was just like oh my gosh....so my back is a bit sore now. :)
funny story at half time of one of the games someone said, "man, this gravel on the field is ridiculous." i thought to myself, gravel? there is only grass. well next half as i ended up on the bottom of the pile with more girls fall on top of my. someone landed on my head smashing it into the gravel. at that point i thought to myself, "oh, there's the gravel." hahaha i guess in the spots where no grass was growing they just decided to put gravel. smart, eh?......
i had, am thinking about giving up rugby. not because of the sport but more because of the commitment and the social atmosphere. those girls love to party and drink, and im not so good at that. so i usually skip social events thus making it just a wee bit tougher to be socially cool with the girls on saturday morning. plus im kind of an all or nothing person. i dont like halfway crap. and i feel bad if i skip. so i thought maybe i should commit my time to something else for awhile. but the seasons almost over and like yesterday showed me that i am getting it. sure it would be easier to jsut play like pick up soccer on the weekends or something, but the beauty of rugby is that it takes so much of my intellect as wel as physicalness. so if i mess up physically i blame it on the mental part of the game. and vice versa. if i go to a sport i know, then its just that im lazy and out of shape. haha. but i dont know. i like it. its good stuff. plus, how often do you get to hit people? not so often.
thats all for now, from your bruised but never broken amber :P
the pack
so this past week has been a very interesting one as it brought the first of a few goodbyes. as the end of the summer rolls around everyone's contracts are up. its hard to believe some people have been here for only a year. it seems longer at times, and much shorter at other times. but lets just take a review of the posse as it is about to change and evolve.
in this picture from the left you have:
SALLY. the lovely, frank, strong, individualistic (shes teaching me alot) girl who went to high school with sarah. she just resigned in July and will continue working at her same hagwon for the next year.
LISA and DAVE. Canadians. haha.....our married couple friends who are always up for fun and craziness. they were coworkers with sarah and it was decided that they were on the level and cool enough for us to hang out with. :) they both signed a new contract in august and have after school public school jobs (which is one of the sweetest ways to go, i think) working 12 to 5 every day. oh yeah.
MIKE. aka Big Mike.houghton alumni and good friend of chris. fun, loud, beer loving teddy bear who doubts the legitimacy of "the Golden Compass" book series due to some run ins with polar bears. he has headed back to the US and is waiting to see what turns up, if he will head back to korea or stay in the states.
RYAN. houghton alumni and close friend to chris. married to carolyn, who is in the front row in the orange tank top. their contracts ended and the just left on monday back to the states. there they will stay for a year or so as they raise support in order to work with Food for the Hungry in Indonesia at the epicenter of where the tsunami hit. what will they be doing? developing an english language curriculum for the indonesian children. ...the irony. :) or providence?
ME. still here until February of next year. then well see what happens.
(front row) SARAH. otherwise known as nesbitt. houghton alumni, my university roommate for more semesters than i can count. i think ive actually shared a room with her more than my own sisters. :) in july signed to work at my school with me. hehe. so the two of us are working at Avalon and living near Sungshin Women's University maybe 500m apart. we have plans to dissect all of the restaurants, coffeeshops, hofs in sungshin. and perhaps posting our experiences. :)
CAROLYN. married to ryan. was houghton roommates with sarah and i. soon to be in indonesia.
now in the picture to the left you have :
D. another beautiful canadian. we met her through sally, as they were co
workers and sally decided she was cool enough to hang out with us and we all agree immensely! cute, with a quick wit and an obsession for books and hanging out.sadly, her contract ends in october, so we just celebrate as much as we can and don't think too much about it. but she hopes to return soon with bryan once he finishes his degree. maybe next march or september.
workers and sally decided she was cool enough to hang out with us and we all agree immensely! cute, with a quick wit and an obsession for books and hanging out.sadly, her contract ends in october, so we just celebrate as much as we can and don't think too much about it. but she hopes to return soon with bryan once he finishes his degree. maybe next march or september. CHRIS. houghton alumni. goofy good friend to the houghton alumnis. his contract ended and he just headed back to the states this morning. there are whispers he will return soon as his brother and sister in law are making plans to do so. but well see.
so thats the group that ive loved for the past year. as the new year starts for almost everyone but me. (i just celebrated my year and a half in korea anniversary on friday) there is no way to know who will join us, who will return to us and what mischief we will get into. all i know is that i love the adventure that is and the characters ive had the pleasure to meet along the way.
~amber
background information
at this moment i am in a "7 Monkeys" coffeeshop which is the first i have found in my area that openly advertises free wireless. whoo hoo!!! i will be a new favorite customer very soon. cooler atmosphere and more stimulating than the pc bangs. plus i can get some good coffee and use the internet...so i win both ways. :) the reason the internet is so important to me now is because i have most recently invested in a ASUS Eee mini computer. one of those small computers that you can carry in your purse. oh yeah baby. :) its cute, but very nice. perfect for me. im not much of a computer person. i was so happy when i turned it on the first time and already saw microsoft office, skype and internet explorer waiting for me. its like they know me perfectly! but this is probably the second time i have actually sat down to play with it. i plan on investing in some accessories like a cool mouse - in korea there are tons of cool mice. i mean i could buy a really normal one for 4 or 5 dollars, but id rather get a cute character. hehe....and a good cover will be important as i carry it around. but so far so good. im hoping all continues to go well.
but in order to buy this computer i made a deal with myself. one thing is that i must blog at least once a week. that seems easy enough i think. :) and i also must call someone on skype once a week. im waaaaay behind on my phone calls and i have to work on that. i have failed for this week but its been an interesting week, which ill explain in the next entry. so i hope to keep you more entertained in the near future. :)
but in order to buy this computer i made a deal with myself. one thing is that i must blog at least once a week. that seems easy enough i think. :) and i also must call someone on skype once a week. im waaaaay behind on my phone calls and i have to work on that. i have failed for this week but its been an interesting week, which ill explain in the next entry. so i hope to keep you more entertained in the near future. :)
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
work...the good the bad and the ugly
im working at a nice big franchise hagwon that i actually fully supported and loved when i first arrived. and for many months since ive been here...until....
well they decided last month to fire one of my favorite coworkers. they said that she was getting too many complains. well let me share my friends story from what i know. i mean we talk alot so i feel its accurate. J had a lot of complaints in the beginning. her class was boring and no one liked her. so they told her. so she revamped it. she added a lot of games, and like we talked to gether about the games and other ideas to make it better. so it was, from what i can tell. regardless she made a big change.
then we all were told we played too many games. so we all needed to fix that. thats fine with me. whatever. (i was playing too many games) well a month or two passed. there was a complaint here or there with j. granted our boss is a bit awkward and doesn't really pull you aside to complain. just in the office. and then says that you got a complaint, fix it. so j kept asking, why and why and is a confrontational person. (wish i could be that way a bit more at times)...anyways, a few months pass.
out of the blue im told that j is getting fired. even my head foreign teacher is like, what? why? really the only reason we can think is because they just dont like her. granted she had some issues but she worked hard. whatever. shes ok. shes on to bigger and better things.
but this caused me to lose all faith in my hagwon. a job i once highly esteemed and thought of maybe a second year...well, well see what happens. its all about the money. the work is easy but whatever. its not what i thought it was. so im a little saddened by that, but whatever. thats how it goes.
but i must note, for a hagwon to fire 2, not 1 but 2 foreign teachers, is a bit unheard of. usually you have to like kill students in most places to get fired. but thats life. so its time to leave work and go hang out with some friends.
until next time~~
well they decided last month to fire one of my favorite coworkers. they said that she was getting too many complains. well let me share my friends story from what i know. i mean we talk alot so i feel its accurate. J had a lot of complaints in the beginning. her class was boring and no one liked her. so they told her. so she revamped it. she added a lot of games, and like we talked to gether about the games and other ideas to make it better. so it was, from what i can tell. regardless she made a big change.
then we all were told we played too many games. so we all needed to fix that. thats fine with me. whatever. (i was playing too many games) well a month or two passed. there was a complaint here or there with j. granted our boss is a bit awkward and doesn't really pull you aside to complain. just in the office. and then says that you got a complaint, fix it. so j kept asking, why and why and is a confrontational person. (wish i could be that way a bit more at times)...anyways, a few months pass.
out of the blue im told that j is getting fired. even my head foreign teacher is like, what? why? really the only reason we can think is because they just dont like her. granted she had some issues but she worked hard. whatever. shes ok. shes on to bigger and better things.
but this caused me to lose all faith in my hagwon. a job i once highly esteemed and thought of maybe a second year...well, well see what happens. its all about the money. the work is easy but whatever. its not what i thought it was. so im a little saddened by that, but whatever. thats how it goes.
but i must note, for a hagwon to fire 2, not 1 but 2 foreign teachers, is a bit unheard of. usually you have to like kill students in most places to get fired. but thats life. so its time to leave work and go hang out with some friends.
until next time~~
sometimes
so the other day my coworker and i were walking home and we were standing on one of the main streets talking. well complaining about our work and just the things that make us tired and worn out....i would like to expand but as i am at work, probably not a good idea. :)
but anyways, we are back and forth venting our frustrations standing in the humidity with a nice layer of sweat covering everything. then this old man walks over to us with his cane. i have to admit i kind of sighed inside because i didnt really feel like making polite conversation to help someone learn english. but both my coworker and i are very polite people and we talked to him. then after explaining his studying english on his own, he turns to me and says i have stars in my eyes. and that i look like kate winslet. well, though i stated that its probably because my pupils are dialated from my anger, i was never the less touched by what this man said, and well i decided that life is ok. haha....oh it always is.
:)
but anyways, we are back and forth venting our frustrations standing in the humidity with a nice layer of sweat covering everything. then this old man walks over to us with his cane. i have to admit i kind of sighed inside because i didnt really feel like making polite conversation to help someone learn english. but both my coworker and i are very polite people and we talked to him. then after explaining his studying english on his own, he turns to me and says i have stars in my eyes. and that i look like kate winslet. well, though i stated that its probably because my pupils are dialated from my anger, i was never the less touched by what this man said, and well i decided that life is ok. haha....oh it always is.
:)
i think alot but i just don't type
due to the fact that i have no computer and no internet in my home, i don't often find an intersection of having access to a computer with the "feeling" of typing in this blog...so where I used to try and type once a week has turned to every few months...not conducive if i want to write a book...hehehe
but im trying to fix it and doing some research to buy a computer.
most recently my sisters came to visit me. it was an amazing time. which i have to admit when i returned to my apartment after dropping them off i thought i would be relieved. but i wasn't. i was sad and noticed how quiet my apartment is.
the longer lasting effects have been even better. i seem to often live these seperate lives. like when i went to high school because it was all new people and a new place i just kind of revamped myself. then when i went to college it was all new people and a whole new place, so far from home that the only time they really mixed was at graduation. sometimes this is challenging to me because i like to an authentic person and i want to be the same no matter where i am. and when i like who i am in one place well i want to keep those characteristics and develop them even more fully.
so ive been in korea for about a year and half and there has been no mix of home and life here. i mean im horrible at writing at home thus rarely receive correspondence through the mail. ive even become horrible at keeping in touch with people through facebook and email...and in a world of skype, well there is little excuse. but i went home last christmas but even that was not a mixing of my lives. it was me removing myself from one life to go back into a different one.
but, coming back to my point, when my two sisters came here - Lindsay the second oldest and Lacie the youngest - i didn't expect this feeling i've had since they left. its like they kind of awoke a piece of me inside that has been missing. the day after they left i was walking to work and i just felt like me. like a lot of my insecurities were missing. i dont know why. its not like my sisters are especially loving in a very explicit (right word?) way. we don't really tell each other i love you very often. but something about having that piece of home with me just reminded me of who i am.
the insecurities of not having a boyfriend and not having a longterm plan for my life kind of just slipped away. they just reminded me of who i am without even meaning to. i feel more complete. which is shocking because usually i think im going to be annoyed with people in my korea, in my space...but the opposite. it kind of made it more real for me.
~~~rereading this... maybe they just reminded me that i am american amber in korea...im not korean (despite my best efforts at times) which sometimes leaves me feeling neglected and left out...i think they reminded me that im me. :) and im american. haha
does that mean i want to stay in korea for a few more years? haha...who knows. but i have all of a sudden gotten this great motivation to take a korean language class. for some reason i have the desire to do something crazy, maybe my sisters reminding me of how much i used to work and study and play sports and that it is possible to do all of that at once. i want to prove it to myself again i suppose....so i was looking into a korean language class at a university. go to class 9 to 1 and then work from 3 to 10. hows that for a nice struggle? the challenge i think is what has drawn me to this idea. but the price tag of 1,500,000 won - thats about 3/4 of a paycheck is a little daunting this next few months.
so no worries. i have found a solution. i will take a korean hagwon (academy) which is cheaper and shorter. oh yes, i think i will enter the same hagwon system that i work in now....except switch the languages...and maybe with adults the teachers will care more. haha, thats all i can think about are the days when i don't care and how i dont want to pay all that money for a teacher who doesn't care about me. buuuuuuut im an adult choosing this program where most of my students are forced to attend my classes and are often so overworked and sleep deprived that i look at their faces and feel pity for them.
but i figure lets do one month of this it will give me a taste. see if my korean does get better, if i can handle a class, my internship and work....and if its promising well follow up from there.
until next time~
but im trying to fix it and doing some research to buy a computer.
most recently my sisters came to visit me. it was an amazing time. which i have to admit when i returned to my apartment after dropping them off i thought i would be relieved. but i wasn't. i was sad and noticed how quiet my apartment is.
the longer lasting effects have been even better. i seem to often live these seperate lives. like when i went to high school because it was all new people and a new place i just kind of revamped myself. then when i went to college it was all new people and a whole new place, so far from home that the only time they really mixed was at graduation. sometimes this is challenging to me because i like to an authentic person and i want to be the same no matter where i am. and when i like who i am in one place well i want to keep those characteristics and develop them even more fully.
so ive been in korea for about a year and half and there has been no mix of home and life here. i mean im horrible at writing at home thus rarely receive correspondence through the mail. ive even become horrible at keeping in touch with people through facebook and email...and in a world of skype, well there is little excuse. but i went home last christmas but even that was not a mixing of my lives. it was me removing myself from one life to go back into a different one.
but, coming back to my point, when my two sisters came here - Lindsay the second oldest and Lacie the youngest - i didn't expect this feeling i've had since they left. its like they kind of awoke a piece of me inside that has been missing. the day after they left i was walking to work and i just felt like me. like a lot of my insecurities were missing. i dont know why. its not like my sisters are especially loving in a very explicit (right word?) way. we don't really tell each other i love you very often. but something about having that piece of home with me just reminded me of who i am.
the insecurities of not having a boyfriend and not having a longterm plan for my life kind of just slipped away. they just reminded me of who i am without even meaning to. i feel more complete. which is shocking because usually i think im going to be annoyed with people in my korea, in my space...but the opposite. it kind of made it more real for me.
~~~rereading this... maybe they just reminded me that i am american amber in korea...im not korean (despite my best efforts at times) which sometimes leaves me feeling neglected and left out...i think they reminded me that im me. :) and im american. haha
does that mean i want to stay in korea for a few more years? haha...who knows. but i have all of a sudden gotten this great motivation to take a korean language class. for some reason i have the desire to do something crazy, maybe my sisters reminding me of how much i used to work and study and play sports and that it is possible to do all of that at once. i want to prove it to myself again i suppose....so i was looking into a korean language class at a university. go to class 9 to 1 and then work from 3 to 10. hows that for a nice struggle? the challenge i think is what has drawn me to this idea. but the price tag of 1,500,000 won - thats about 3/4 of a paycheck is a little daunting this next few months.
so no worries. i have found a solution. i will take a korean hagwon (academy) which is cheaper and shorter. oh yes, i think i will enter the same hagwon system that i work in now....except switch the languages...and maybe with adults the teachers will care more. haha, thats all i can think about are the days when i don't care and how i dont want to pay all that money for a teacher who doesn't care about me. buuuuuuut im an adult choosing this program where most of my students are forced to attend my classes and are often so overworked and sleep deprived that i look at their faces and feel pity for them.
but i figure lets do one month of this it will give me a taste. see if my korean does get better, if i can handle a class, my internship and work....and if its promising well follow up from there.
until next time~
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