11. Teacher's Day
Today was Teachers' Day, which in the public school system means that teacher's get the day off... but in the private Hagwon system just means that we get a lot of presents. I got presents from all but one of my kindergarten kids. When I told Mr. Lee this (after he asked) he told me that a)this means I am a very popular teacher (apparantly the average is half), and b)not to 'care for' the girl who didn't bring me gifts. At first I thought he was joking, but no... he was serious. The funny thing is, the girl who didn't bring me a present was Annie, my favourite, and I know she likes me so it wasn't that. Secondly, I'm not going to stop 'caring for' a child because their parents didn't remember to buy me a gift. Anyway, what Mr. Lee said was that "Annie's mother is so busy, so don't care for her." I guess his thinking is that her mom is too busy to notice if she's learning or not. Mr. Lee has a real bias against working mothers... this is not the first time I've been told that a certain child doesn't matter very much because "the mother is very busy."
Anyway, onto the gifts. Here's a picture of my load.
And here's my favourite of Suzanne's gifts... it looks like a scepter! I actually saw some other women with scepter-like flowers walking around La Festa (the mall area) tonight, so maybe it's a traditional thing.
Actually, here's a video of La Festa at night, just so you can see what I'm talking about. And yes, that is a Starbucks.
After work Suzanne, Anita, David and I went out for dinner... twice. We went to this one cheap galbi place (Galbi basically means 'meat'... you'll see in a minute) that was kind of gross, so then after we 'ate' all of that, and by 'ate' I mean, picked at it and mostly just watched Dave eat, we went back to our regular galbi place and ate supper for real.
The 'meat' at the first place was a little bit unappetizing.
When you go out for galbi, they bring you raw meat, and you cook it on the grill in the middle of the table -- or if you are us, you let Anita cook it on the grill in the middle of the table. This, of course, is the galbi at the first place we went... as you can see, we are not happy.
Our regular place was much better.Of course, we still make Anita cook for us!
I had some other pictures (including one with me in it) but blogger is being frustrating and I'm having some difficulty uploading them. So we'll move on to the next feature. The video tour of my apartment.
Well, that's it for now. Have a wonderful week, folks!
Love and Hugs.
Anyway, onto the gifts. Here's a picture of my load.
And here's my favourite of Suzanne's gifts... it looks like a scepter! I actually saw some other women with scepter-like flowers walking around La Festa (the mall area) tonight, so maybe it's a traditional thing.
Actually, here's a video of La Festa at night, just so you can see what I'm talking about. And yes, that is a Starbucks.
After work Suzanne, Anita, David and I went out for dinner... twice. We went to this one cheap galbi place (Galbi basically means 'meat'... you'll see in a minute) that was kind of gross, so then after we 'ate' all of that, and by 'ate' I mean, picked at it and mostly just watched Dave eat, we went back to our regular galbi place and ate supper for real.
The 'meat' at the first place was a little bit unappetizing.
When you go out for galbi, they bring you raw meat, and you cook it on the grill in the middle of the table -- or if you are us, you let Anita cook it on the grill in the middle of the table. This, of course, is the galbi at the first place we went... as you can see, we are not happy.
Our regular place was much better.Of course, we still make Anita cook for us!
I had some other pictures (including one with me in it) but blogger is being frustrating and I'm having some difficulty uploading them. So we'll move on to the next feature. The video tour of my apartment.
Well, that's it for now. Have a wonderful week, folks!
Love and Hugs.
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