Samishisa

I just said goodbye to two really good friends.  :(   when I see them again, they will be married (!)

So I am going back to the States this coming tuesday.  It's nice to have friends in different places.  But sometimes I really wish they were all in one place.  Then it wouldn't be very hard to decide where to live.

Tokyo

I'm in Tokyo. And have been for almost two weeks. I meant to write when I got here right away, but it somehow just never happened.

It felt really good to get here. As much as I had a good time in Seoul (which I really have to say was because of the wonderful friends I have there. I didn't do much sightseeing or shopping (really!) but I did hang out with and really depend on some great people while I was there. Thank you guys!!)), it felt really good to land here. There was so much more diversity right away! (hah. never thought I'd say that about Japan ^^;)

But so in Tokyo I am. But not for much longer, perhaps. It's all a little up in the air right now.

What will happen? I don't quite know...

Last Day!

It is the official last day of the 'SAT Summer Boot Camp!' woooo!

It was overall a good experience...but I don't think I want to teach SATs ever again. The highlight was definitely some of the kids. Some of them were really great/smart, etc.

What's rather amusing, is that they all have started adding us (the teachers) as friends on facebook. Ah... social networking. what it does and doesn't do for you. or something.

Nothing really profound. I'm just sitting in the teachers' room, as I have finished my last class and just waiting for the bell to ring at 6.

I will write more. On interesting phenomenon. It's a promise.

A place holds for you what you made of it there

The Banging

For reasons totally unbeknownst and incomprehensible to me, there is a man who walks up and down the street banging together two sticks (metal poles? something like this?) together rhythmically at around 9 or 10 then again at 11 at night every night. For a while I merely guessed at this 'happening.' I thought it must be some figment of my imagination that those noises were happening repetitively at night every night... because who in this modern age would actually have some kind of system (for whatever reason?) like that?

But tonight I *saw* him. With my very own two eyes. Banging some sort of thing together (ok, so it wasn't that close up). But he was definitely there, he was definitely doing it, and it was the same sound.


I had something (perhaps) more meaningful to mention, but it was written on today's practice SAT, and I forgot that at work.

Yes, I am, crazily enough, an SAT teacher. (really, the idea. not just the idea. the fact. ... really is kind o' crazy.) only 1 week and a day left of teaching route SAT stuff (yes!) (I politely put that in parentheses, see?)

My computer breathes again.

Of Slight Concern

So my computer has.... bit the dust. making regular blog posts (when has this ever been regular?? heh) a bit difficult

buuuuut

It just so happens that the new dance studio I stopped by today has computers to use (!)

Today was kind of a rough day as one teacher was out sick, and so I (and others) had to cover a couple extra classes. And I have one class that went from being a nice group of kids to rather... hard to deal with, making things slightly unpleasant in the morning.

At any rate, it is time I got some food, got my bag from the place I forgot it, and went home.

Your word of the day is "benighted"

One would hope that Korean (or any) kids studying in another country would especially learn how detrimental stereotypes can be... and hopefully take that time to learn more about others... but as has, somewhat surprisingly, been the case so far, this is, alas, not so true.


If I get a computer up and working, I will work on this newfangled 'picture thing.' :)

Corollary to the ...uh... corollaries

Yes, none was in the slightest bit related.