Hello! Hope all is well with everyone! Nothing too exciting to report! Teaching is going really well and I am really enjoying it! However, I can officially say today was an awful day. I love my first class of the day, my kindergartners. They are so cute...until one of them puked in my class. One of my students had told me at the beginning of class that Brian wasn't feeling well, but that isn't very unusual. My students are always sick and still come to class, which is why I am STILL fighting a cold. I just said I was sorry and continued with class, until I had to stop when he began upchucking (for some reason I love saying that word). I ran out of my classroom and got someone to clean it up and take him. We moved classrooms and they cleaned him up, then brought him back to class. I was not pleased. I didn't want to be around pukey and get sick. So, I have realized that I will not be having children anytime soon, unless my husband, Brad Pitt, will clean it up. Kids are so gross...they should come with some sort of devise that catches all of their bodily fluids AND disposes of it.... It's a good thing kids are sooo cute. Man...I miss my fav kids of all time- the twins (Duke and Graham) and my denver kiddies (Falyn and Herschel).
I have gone to a church a few times. They are all super sweet and treat us (my friend Brittney, Reuben,and I) so well. There is this one dude who is a dermatologist and has commented on my freckles a few times. On Sunday, he told me that he was opening up a new practice and he wanted me to come in and have my freckles on my face removed. I tried to tell him that they are apart of me and it would be strange not to have him. I don't think he understood and continued to tell me that Koreans always get rid of freckles with treatments- apparently they are ugly. I thought he was saying that they use a razor to remove them and started laughing hysterically. After a minute, I realized he was saying laser treatment. So, much better. I would still have skin on my face, but it would be red for a few days. haha. So, maybe I will come back and scare you all with no freckles- I would hate to be ugly in Korea.
Did you know....
- I have ants in my apartment. They got into my bread and I didn't realize it until I had already taken a bite. I didn't eat for a few hours after I had spit out my bite and dry heaved.
- Korean husbands are not always so kind to their wives. It is very common to see women with bruises on their faces/bodies. It is not talked about it, and happens far to often.
- Some of my students think Santa died because they didn't get any Christmas presents this past year.
- The reason my students freak out if their names are written in red is because in their history, those who were going to be executed were given letters that had their names written in red for blood.
- The Korean school year starts in March.
- A man came up to Reuben and I and started talking about God. He was actually saying some really interesting things, until he started telling us how Western men are ruining Asia. He said they are taking Korean women from them and creating bi-racial children... kissing in the street (so sinful)... blah blah. It was such an annoying conversation and I was so angry after it. Every time either one of us would try to talk, he would get really mad and call us arrogant. I felt like we were having a conversation from the 60's or something. I have never met someone so close-minded and ignorant. I didn't think these people still exist. Apparently, they do. I wish I would have said that I needed to go because my Korean boyfriend was at home with our love child. I wonder what he would have said then? ha.
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