English

So today I sat in on this English grammar class. The teacher is this weirdo with long super curly hair like Benjamin Franklin (except with black hair). He kept flipping his hair and looking at his own reflection. He laughs at his own jokes (as most professors tend to do) but anyway, this isn't about his looks. At first I just let weird Konglish (English made up in Korea) go when people I knew used it but today I was this man teach it to a class. It was a fill in the blank. On Saturday night, I started to sneeze. I ______ a cold in the afternoon. He told everyone it was "I had catched a cold" in the afternoon. Everyone in the class wrote it down. Of course since I wasn't registered for the class I couldn't just stand up and correct the teacher. Also he wrote on the board, "If you wash the dishes, I cook the dinner." This was supposed to be an example for the students to write down. It wasn't for "fix this sentence" either. He is an awful teacher. He didn't explain anything, he gave out a bunch of handouts that I bet some native speakers couldn't understand and expected them to figure all this shit out. I wonder how much they're paying this guy.

One handout he gave out was "Read the following text and underline all gerunds and infinitives. Then identify the function of each one." He gave it out waited for people to do it and didn't go over it. He only said look at it at home. It's on the test. There was another sentence that was weird, "Susan didn't come to the movie with us. She ________it." He said the correct answer was "She had forgotten it." He was not open to other answers. I thought it was supposed to be She had already watched it. or She had forgotten about it. MEHHHH!!! That's why Koreans need to learn basics before studying grammar. At this level, they don't know what anything really means. When we first learn a language we learn words! Not sentence diagramming! *sigh* my laptop battery is gonna die. I'm done ranting :P

BLAH

ok ok so i know i haven't posted anything significant for many months. i just don't think that they're interesting or post-worthy. there are a couple of new teachers in town that i've been hanging out with lately. i have a killer hang over today because we were all out last night.

there's not really that much to do here or even that much time to do it. it's always work work work and then the weekend comes. hang out with bum, play video games, drink with friends...etc..and we're back at work again

i just got a new class about 2 weeks ago. i swear to you two of them in that class are lazy as hell. they don't do any homework and they still can't write their numbers and colors. and the worst part is when you yell at them, they just stare blankly at you. what sucks is there's this really bright little boy in that same class and it sucks for him because the other students are slowing him down. he's so adorable. all teachers have favorites...it's hard not to. some students are just so loving and bright and willing to learn. i actually never thought i'd like kids so much, they're such awesome little people. sometimes they'll say something that as an adult you would never say because we're socially trained not to say them. it's so hard not to laugh when it was the exact thing you were thinking but just can't say.

i was playing a lot of guitar last month, but then i got bored of it and so i'm taking a break. i've been watching lots of korean movies. some are good, some are so cliche blahhh i when i say "some are ____" it reminds me of the book one fish two fish. i think i've probably read that book a million times. "some are red and some are blue. some are old and some are new. some are sad and some are glad and some are very very bad." see i told you my life only revolves around teaching....>.<

i did some cooking for awhile. cooking and baking and all that good stuff but washing dishes sucks so...i stopped doing that too. i've been playing wii and DS games a lot. everything's in korean though so sometimes i just press random crap. it's intimidating when so much korean appears all at once. even though if i slowly read it i could probably understand. ohh been watching lot of anime too. yumeiro patessiere and yakitate. i love yakitate it's still good the second time around. fairy tail is a good new series too.

i can't think of anything else new...so that'll be it for now. i'll try to post more frequently...keyword is try :) sometimes i have stuff i want to say but then get too lazy to actually do it. i gained weight lately...need to start working out once this crazy weather is all out of the way. it was still snowing last week. my friends had their baby last week too! she's really cute. hopefully she'll be strong and healthy.

lost for words

of course lately i have lots on my mind but i find myself unable to express it into words. good and bad i guess. which is why i haven't posted in a long time. when i am ready i will post a long update.