"Principal said English Teachers are good singers."
After I heard this, I knew I was in trouble.
A school that is next to ours had a music festival for their schools birthday. The principal from my school went. She thought, "Out school is better than that school and we can do more than they can."
So on October 1st (a saturday and a three day weekend that I was looking forward to, not anymore I guess haha), we are having a sports day in the morning and a musical festival in the afternoon and also my drama class will be performing.
The best part is... I have to be in the teachers choir. I'm a little scared about this... Not the singing part, but the 'when we are practicing part'. If they practice during the school day... Fine, I'll sing my heart out, but if they hold me here after school. I will be one grumpy singer haha. It is times like this where I hate causing a problem. It is just I can't stay late, because I have to get home to let my dog out and to feed him. Otherwise he will pee all over and sometimes vomit if he doesn't get food.
When I tell this to a Korean they say, "He isn't a child." I reply, "Yeah, I know. If he was... He probably could feed himself and let himself out." dur.
Also, since I've been here I know how they put things off until the last minute... So maybe there won't even be a lot of practicing...
Sunday, July 10, 2011
This is how the sun shines.
Last night after getting back from Seoul I was in a mood for a movie. As I paged through my DVDs I saw an old favorite, "Little Miss Sunshine."
As I watched this movie again I thought about what made it so great. Usually in movies there is a problem and then it is solved and everyone is happy. In this movie all the problems of the characters were still there in the end, but they kept on. It showed a part of this families life and their struggles with living and with each other.
I guess the main thing I like is how real it is to life. It shows people at their best and worse. It shows that lifes problems can't be solved in an instant, but sometimes we do something right and then our problems seem less for a bit.
Sometimes it is good to have those movies that give us the "awwww I'm happy cause the boy got the girl and they are together," or the "Yay! The hero killed the bad guy!" Then it is good to have those movies, that show a bit of ourselves in them.
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As I watched this movie again I thought about what made it so great. Usually in movies there is a problem and then it is solved and everyone is happy. In this movie all the problems of the characters were still there in the end, but they kept on. It showed a part of this families life and their struggles with living and with each other.
I guess the main thing I like is how real it is to life. It shows people at their best and worse. It shows that lifes problems can't be solved in an instant, but sometimes we do something right and then our problems seem less for a bit.
Sometimes it is good to have those movies that give us the "awwww I'm happy cause the boy got the girl and they are together," or the "Yay! The hero killed the bad guy!" Then it is good to have those movies, that show a bit of ourselves in them.
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
Sillyness
There has been a lot of sillyness going on this week... I don't want to call it crazyness, because I just need to laugh it off lol.
Some good sillyness is coming from my dog Casanova. He is so funny. He is scared of a lot of things. His major fear however, are large umbrellas. If I am walking with him and my umbrella he tries to get as far away as possible. If I need to stand under the umbrella while outside waiting for him to pee... He won't go. He waits until I put it away. I guess it is fair that we both get wet... haha. Yesterday I had to dry out my umbrella and I left it open in the doorway by his food. I was going to be nice and move his food away, but I told him that he can stop being a chicken and just eat by the umbrella. To my amusement he would grab a mouthful of food and run away to his bed and eat it there. So that is how he ate last night. Grab some food run away from the umbrella and eat it by his bed. I think he wondered why I was laughing at him :D.
Some crazy sillyness has been all about my principal this week. She is a super micro manager and all my coteachers are getting really frazzled since they have to deal with her. It has been about the English library all week...
So in this new library the moms are going to come in the afternoon and help me with the children. So they need their own computer and desk. There was an extra computer down on the second floor so my co teacher asked if they could use it. They got the okay. The computer guy came and they were hooking it up. Then the principal came up and was freaking out! No one told her that they were moving the computer. So she throws a fit and the computer guy has to take it back down to the second floor. She told my co teacher that we can get the computer, but she has to ask again tomorrow.
Second she was angry because there was a small partition blocking my desk from view from the outside. You can just see my head but everything else is blocked. She was mad because she wants everyone to see me... Um they could, but whatever.
Yesterday there were problems too. We were trying to move around my desk and the mom's desk. The principal wanted it a certain way, but it wasn't working. So the mom's found a better way, but we aren't allowed to move our desks until the principal checks the room. (we would be moving the desk about 1 foot forward, but still we must ask lol).
Last week she was mad about the special English play. In the play there wasn't enough English and it was kindof silly. However, she wanted to get the cheapest one. Now she is mad that it was bad. I guess no one ever told her that you get what you pay for...
Last the students were going on a feild trip to a bunch of different places. That morning principal had a dream about an accident and canceled the trip. Poor kids.
So in the end be Casanova silly and not principal silly ;). People will like you more for it!
Some good sillyness is coming from my dog Casanova. He is so funny. He is scared of a lot of things. His major fear however, are large umbrellas. If I am walking with him and my umbrella he tries to get as far away as possible. If I need to stand under the umbrella while outside waiting for him to pee... He won't go. He waits until I put it away. I guess it is fair that we both get wet... haha. Yesterday I had to dry out my umbrella and I left it open in the doorway by his food. I was going to be nice and move his food away, but I told him that he can stop being a chicken and just eat by the umbrella. To my amusement he would grab a mouthful of food and run away to his bed and eat it there. So that is how he ate last night. Grab some food run away from the umbrella and eat it by his bed. I think he wondered why I was laughing at him :D.
Some crazy sillyness has been all about my principal this week. She is a super micro manager and all my coteachers are getting really frazzled since they have to deal with her. It has been about the English library all week...
So in this new library the moms are going to come in the afternoon and help me with the children. So they need their own computer and desk. There was an extra computer down on the second floor so my co teacher asked if they could use it. They got the okay. The computer guy came and they were hooking it up. Then the principal came up and was freaking out! No one told her that they were moving the computer. So she throws a fit and the computer guy has to take it back down to the second floor. She told my co teacher that we can get the computer, but she has to ask again tomorrow.
Second she was angry because there was a small partition blocking my desk from view from the outside. You can just see my head but everything else is blocked. She was mad because she wants everyone to see me... Um they could, but whatever.
Yesterday there were problems too. We were trying to move around my desk and the mom's desk. The principal wanted it a certain way, but it wasn't working. So the mom's found a better way, but we aren't allowed to move our desks until the principal checks the room. (we would be moving the desk about 1 foot forward, but still we must ask lol).
Last week she was mad about the special English play. In the play there wasn't enough English and it was kindof silly. However, she wanted to get the cheapest one. Now she is mad that it was bad. I guess no one ever told her that you get what you pay for...
Last the students were going on a feild trip to a bunch of different places. That morning principal had a dream about an accident and canceled the trip. Poor kids.
So in the end be Casanova silly and not principal silly ;). People will like you more for it!
Saturday, July 2, 2011
It is good...
Sometimes I wonder if it is worth it to study all these words. To just learn all these for a test seems pointless. Why bother? It is good to see that when I take a practice test I recognize the words and I can confidently pick out the answer. It is good when I read a book and I see the words being used. It helped me to see that even though some of the words I know I'll probably never use or see again there are a great deal of them I can and should use when I am writing.
So I'm trying to not just memorize for a test now, I'm trying to memorize to improve my craft... A much more worthy goal for me :).
After the test I want to continue to learn new words. So lucky for me there are so many word a day apps out there. I don't want to try and cram twenty new words in a day like I'm doing now, but if I can learn or just read about one new word a day I think that will be fun.
After the test it will be time to really get serious about my grad school applications. I'll have 4 months to finish editing stories and writing purpose statements. If I don't get in... I guess I have to try and find a job in America somewhere. Then try again next year. I guess if I don't get in two years in a row I'll look for some other way to do something I love.
So I'm trying to not just memorize for a test now, I'm trying to memorize to improve my craft... A much more worthy goal for me :).
After the test I want to continue to learn new words. So lucky for me there are so many word a day apps out there. I don't want to try and cram twenty new words in a day like I'm doing now, but if I can learn or just read about one new word a day I think that will be fun.
After the test it will be time to really get serious about my grad school applications. I'll have 4 months to finish editing stories and writing purpose statements. If I don't get in... I guess I have to try and find a job in America somewhere. Then try again next year. I guess if I don't get in two years in a row I'll look for some other way to do something I love.
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