November 5, 2002
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Wow. It's been over a week since the last update. Time feels like it's flying sometimes, and crawling at others. An odd sort of situation.
This is my 13th teaching day (I'm glad I'm not superstitious), and the whole process gets a very tiny bit easier every day. Most of my elementary classes are great, with the exception of the littlest kids (they're great most of the time, but they're also 3 years old, which presents its own difficulties) and one or two classes of 9-12-year-olds who are really energetic, inattentive, disruptive and loud. I still haven't quite figured out how to reach them, but I'm trying. My Jr. High classes get progressively more difficult as the week goes. The Monday classes seem to do the best, but the overall attention leve seems to decrease with each day. I only see each class once a week, which is a blessing and a curse... Thsi week I'm doing another listening comprehension exercize, trying to size up where the classes stand in relation to each other.
The apartment is looking much better. It's been subjected to a lot of scrubbing, and a number of the posters and paintings have been put up. It's a bit difficult, since all the walls are made of concrete! One of the fist things we learned when we came to Korea is that all buildings are made of concrete. It takes some getting used to.
Crista is going crazy from lack of occupation. Her life right now is far too housewife-ish for her, but since we're in a small town, her opportunities seem rather limited. But we're going to start casting our nets further afield, and she may well be able to find something in one of the nearby cities. It would mean a daily commute, but anything would be better than spending all day every day in the house...
We went into Daegu, a nearby city, over the weekend, to pick up my Alien Registration Card and do some shopping. We went, of all places, to a French department store called Carrefour. We picked up some groceries (tomato sauce, black tea.......) that can't be bought here in Angang, and some things for the house (a stereo!!! YAY!!! I can listen to music!!!). We looked at digital cameras, since I'm starting a website with pictures of our Korean experience, but their selection was fairly limited, at least in our price range...
Anyhow, I have to let my lovely wife get on the computer. I'll try to drop by all of your sites and say hello at some point soon, but it's so hard to find the time, especially without a computer at home!
All the best!
Take care
-J-
Comments (3)
..sounds very cool -J- .. thanks for sharing the adventure .. are you writing any songs about it ?
I love a husband who thinks of his wife's welfare!
Give Crista my love, and tell that my days are packed with things to do. I have so much to do, I never get bored. Tell her that I am always doing something, and that I am never out of something to do, and that I am doing exactly what I like to do.
-B
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