Indeed. Oh yea, the Pictures (tons) Are Up and More are to Come

Okay, the pictures I promised last lunar eclipse are finally up. Stop stalking me Tracey!! To enlarge the picture just click it. I have many more but it takes a long time using blogger.com to post. However, soon I will put up (what does he mean by soon????????) pictures of my school, the teachers, my students, and some traditional Korean town the fam hit up. As for an update, things have been going really well lately. I truly enjoy teaching and the students have responded well to my lessons thus far. Also, I have become a Badminton king because my ping pong skills are lacking. The students are great are there is only one class that truly gives me problems (mainly-because there are several students whose English skills are non-existent. As a result, (IMO) many students resort to acting out in class instead of making mistakes in English or even trying to participate. They would rather not "look stupid" so they disrupt constantly. Therefore, since I cannot connect with them in my class I have begun playing Badminton and ping pong with them during lunch. Let's see if it works. The kids are great. What can I say?

What else? Well I was introduced to the school nurse's daughter and, at first, it was extremely awkward. Especially when everyone in the room in staring at you screaming "hangukmal hangukmal" (Korean Korean) because you are speaking in English!!!. She is an extremely cool person and very smart. Indeed.

In addition, even though I told everyone that I would go to Seoul to get my haircut, my host mother set up an appointment for me to go to her hairdresser. Of course I went and it was quite the adventure. First, she showed me a flip book of Korean dudes and asked me to pick what style I wanted. They either all looked like women, had weird geled up dews, or had these ridiculous hairstyles (like extra thick cornrows or some obscure looking dreds). Soooo, I asked my mother to just say shorter and then I drew a picture (which didn't work). I decided to just get in the chair and go from there. As I sat in the chair, EVERYONE in the shop stared at me for about a good 5 minutes. It was wild, like I was seal in an orange jumpsuit jiggling a pancake on my nose. So her first trim took no hair off. The 2nd took off about the same. Needless to say, we went through a few trims and then came, yes, the shape-up. Never in her life had she seen a head like mine and the Korean men don't usually get sharp shape-ups like moi. After about a 5 minute convo about the length and form of my sideburns she went in (with the forehead all I said was straight! straight! straight!). I can't front, she did her thing even though the burns were a bit uneven and my forehizzle wasn't straight. I still looked fresh, and it was much cheaper than going to Seoul to see my African connect (where the shop smells like straight 3 day-old musk).

Lastly, the family situation gets better and better. I have talked to my parents about the education system, the Korean image of women, what type of women I like, and a whole gang of other things. We even talked about their daughter and dating and what I thought about it. They call me their son to other people and I even now have a Korean name, hong chawn sa. The other night we played a game where I choose a Bible passage, say Luke chapter 6, and read a verse in English and they have to find it in Korean. They mainly keyed in on certain words and named all the verses with that word but it was still fun. They are some great people and I couldn't have fallen into better hands. I truly am blessed.

Oh yea, where are my care packages (my address is in a previous post)??? I need some American chocolates and candy ASAP. Lol.

I'm so sorry I don't update my blog enough. I forget to tell you guys so much (and a lot of interesting things have happened). And some people even stopped checking for me and I don't blame them. I think I'm getting the inspiration to go in at least 2 or 3 times a week. Let's see.