Great Movie

Thursday, May 15, 2008

We saw the Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian last night. I LOVED IT!! It was soooo good. It was about 2 1/2 hours long and it felt like 30 minutes. I don't know, I guess it is just because I liked the books so much that I was guaranteed to like the movies. Anyways, I recommend it. I am so happy that they play movies in English here only with Korean subtitles. And... it only cost $7 to watch the movie, $5.00 for a large popcorn and two large drinks, and there was no one in the theatre besides our group and about 6 others. Pretty nice.

School yesterday was a challenge. Just my usual challenging students though. This time it went a little further in one class and really upset me. In my class with Hilary, Helen, Hannah, Billy and Nick the girls are always on a team together and they always slaughter the boys in the games. Mostly because the boys are shy and I think that Billy might have a slight learning disability. Anyways, I told them that the teams were going to be mixed today for the vocabulary review game. This is when it all started, I called out random names and said "Hilary and Helen you are with Billy and Nick, Hannah and myself are together". Hilary immediately started getting upset and therefore the other girls, normally well behaved, starting acting up as well. They started to say that they refuse to be on Billy's team because he is fat and stupid, they don't like him, and just really picked on him for his size. I was telling them the whole time that this is ridiculous and you are still on the same teams that I assigned and to apologize to Billy. Hilary got really mad at me and turned her back to me and ignored me. Well, we started the game with the teams that I made and I faced Billy because the other people would not. After about 10 seconds of giving Billy time to look for the word on the board I finally hit it myself. Hilary was so mad at Billy for not winning it that she started it all up again. I told them that for the remainder of the class there is no Korean, since all this was being said in Korean so I wouldn't understand, and if I hear any Korean being spoken to each other then I will give an "X" under behaviour in their report book for the day. I told Billy and Hilary to not speak to each other because they could be on the same team and not talk.

Not even 3 minutes later, they were swearing at each other in Korean. I told them to take our their stamp books, they pretended that they didn't have them, so I said bring them tomorrow or it is two X's. Two X's is really big because they have to explain to their parents why they had to X's and the school will call as well if I want them to. I told our secretary about the whole class and she said that my student is actually getting the same complaints in every single class. So, she was going to be spoken to today about her behaviour for almost the 11th day in a row. I just cannot believe the disrespect that the students have for each other and for me. I also had to put up with having students touch my stomach all day and ask me if I am pregnant because I am not as skinny as all Koreans are. Then when I say no, they say "just fat?" It gets tiring to deal with sometimes.

Other than those couple of things, my day was really good. My lessons went really well and my students listened, for the most part.

Tonight there is a going away party for one of the teachers here in Wonju and we are told that it would be good for us to go because there will be so many English Teachers there that it will be a good place to connect. I am not sure if I feel up to going tonight. I am exhausted from the whole week and being out late last night watching a movie that I might just stay home and hang out with Terri who is staying home to watch Zak. We will see though. I also want to go out for food. Sooooo hungry after work,

Hope everyone has a great day and Happy Birthday to Jake!!