God This Place Sucks!!

This is surely the worst place I have ever been in my life. Yesterday I hid out in my house to avoid the dirt, noise, traffic, dangerous drivers, squealing women, etc. On the weekends one really wants to get away from Korea. It is impossible to find peace and quiet unless it is in your house. Thank the Universe for my cozy apartment.

Today when I came in to work I tried to turn the frown upside down. Think positive!

The lesson I was to teach is in a unit entitled "What's This?". Good idea, it is important to know what things are. Well, at a closer look today's focal point is "I'm sorry". Hmmm..... What does that have to do with What's This? "What's this?" "It's a ruler", "Oh, I'm sorry." Well that's bloody brilliant!

I have done lots of things here that I would not normally do, but today I simply could not march into class and do that lesson. Sing an entire song with the only words being "I'm sorry" and "It's ok". It is sooooooooooooo ridculous. They want me to teach the lessons in the book and my teaching method of using Bingo (which indeed is a wonderful learning tool, as every teacher knows) was not seen as a good idea by some non English speaking parent, so I was asked to not do it. Bah! It fit perfectly with today's lesson, so that is what I did.

Mira, my passive aggressive, unhelpful, defiant, martyr of a co teacher surely did not like it. However, she is a miserable cow every day, so that is nothing new. I ask her to help the children, she says they don't need help. I ask her to translate something so they will understand, she says they understand. A child is crying, so I ask her to come over, and she asks "Why?" I could crack her in the head sometimes. She dismisses the class when I am trying to organize clean up, and in general drives me right round the bend!

Whew! That felt good. When I think about 70 more teaching days, then vacation, a smile creeps to my face. I am singing little songs to myself, "oh, you are a cow, only 70 days left!" How people can resign is beyond me.

I will not miss Korea! I will be happy to say goodbye to:
The stonefaces
the lack of soap and toilet paper
the crappy curriculum
the noisy out of control classes
the horrible food
the lack of available good food
the lack of logic
the lack of respect
feeling like a zoo animal
being less than the men
being less because I am white
nearly getting run down on a regular basis
told that I am fat every day
being hit by a child
the lack of support and guidance at school
the idiotic rules
I really could go on and on

However, I will miss Calbi!!!!!

Must go start planning my vacation...

Rock Your World

Oh, Just one more...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCYQmYQmG3A


This music tonight is making me sooooo happy :)

Another Favorite

God! This woman is inspiring.

Check it out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRX3k_im5I8

Scars

MISSY HIGGINS LYRICS
"Scar"

I picked up this CD when I was in Australia, and I really like this song. The whole CD is great actually. I am not sure how to hook up links, but here is the address to view this song on you tube, so just copy and paste it into the browser and you can see for yourself how fabulous she is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc6FgyC7rwU&mode=related&search=

I would love to hear your thoughts...

He left a card, a bar of soap and a scrubbing brush next to a note that said "use these down to your bones"And before I knew I had shiny skin and it felt easy being clean like him. I thought "this one knows better than I do"
A triangle trying to squeeze through a circle. He tried to cut me so I'd fit
And doesn't that sound familiar? Doesn't that hit too close to home?Doesn't that make you shiver; the way things could've gone?And doesn't it feel peculiar when everyone wants a little more?And so that I do remember to never go that far,Could you leave me with a scar?
So the next one came with a bag of treats, she smelled like sugar and spoke like the sea And she told me don't trust them, trust me. Then she pulled at my stitches one by one, looked at my insides clicking her tongue and said"This will all have to come undone"
A triangle trying to squeeze through a circle. She tried to blunt me so I'd fit
And doesn't that sound familiar? Doesn't that hit too close to home?Doesn't that make you shiver; the way things could have gone?And doesn't it feel peculiar when everyone wants a little more?And so that I do remember to never go that far,Could you leave me with a scar?
I think I realized just in time, although my old self was hard to find. You can bathe me in your finest wine but I'll never give you mine' Cos I'm a little bit tired of fearing that I'll be the bad fruit nobody buys. Tell me, did you think we'd all dream the same?
And doesn't that sound familiar? Doesn't that hit too close to home?Doesn't that make you shiver; the way things could have gone?And doesn't it feel peculiar when everyone wants a little more?And so that I do remember to never go that far,Could you leave me with a scar?Could you leave me with a scar?

I can relate to this song and definitely have the scars! It helps me to remember not to try to fit into places that are not right for me (i.e. Korea, friendships, intimate relationships), and to save my finest wine for those who appreciate it.