April 23, 2009

Maybe I shouldn't write anything right now

I was very angry earlier when I wrote some of this. This is why I titled the posting in that way.

It is very annoying when your co-teacher is not there. I say annoying, that puts it very lightly. I have already discussed this with this certain co-teacher, but I guess that they didn't understand. The students do not listen to me as much when the co-teacher is not in the room. And today, this certain co-teacher left right at the beginning of class. Now, class has been over for 15 minutes, some maintenance guys are in the room fixing the lights, but where is my co-teacher? Isn't that what the CO in CO-teacher means? I don't know how to speak Korean, so when I have a difficult thing to describe, it is very hard for me to get my point across. The maintenance guys just left. And I still don't know where my co-teacher is. I feel bad leaving the room, because I can't lock the door, but then again, they left me by myself in the room today, so... I feel very hung out to dry right now.

I went downstairs, and they were sitting at their computer, and I gave them a bit of an earful, I don't care if they didn't understand everything I said. They apologized, but I'm not sure how meaningful it was, if this happens next week I am going to tell the school that I cannot teach here if this continues. That'll teach 'em.

After this experience, I went upstairs to play the guitar because it calms me down, and a student came into the room and told me to come down to the music room. It was awesome, there were lots of eager Korean students who were all down to sing. They wanted me to play Yesterday but when they showed the music to me it was in the key of C and I know it in F so I guess I could have played it in power chords but I didn't. So I just sang it in C without the guitar, I mean, we all sang it, but then I played it in F and they all sang with me. I think that the song was originally in F, goddammit. But then they wanted to sing Yellow Submarine so I played it and we sang it and it ruled. Than I had a 4th period class and my co-teacher was here THE ENTIRE TIME so it went well. And then during lunch I had more time to play and sing, this time with some of the teachers. And they asked me to play them a song from my band. So I broke out ye olde flash stick and played them some COTZ and they couldn't believe that it was me singing. But they complimented me all the same. Damn, Dan Sneddon is such a good drummer.

So now I am by myself, and my stomach is growling a little, (at my other school they prepare a special lunch for me when they are serving a bunch of meat dishes), but at this school they don't so I am forced to eat rice and some greens and sometimes the soup if it is just vegetables. So I am a little hungry right now. But, on the bright side, I am going to this place next weekend:

http://english.tour2jeju.net/main/

I know... Caves. Volcanos. Restaurants shaped like UFO's. Cheap accomodations, heck yes.

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