Well, with the unrelenting encouragement from my mother I have crawled out of my hole to post a new blog...which I agree is long overdue. You would think that being in a new country would give you lots to talk about, but the sad truth is I am still working for that pay cheque, resulting in a good chunk of my time going towards the betterment of English education in South Korea.
Exciting events are on the horizon though, as the semester is ending soon and my vacation begins as of July 17th.
So , what's new? Well, sick again. Apparently covering your mouth when you cough is a foreign concept here, and I have contracted some virus from one of the hundreds of children I see everyday. Luckily, they are cute...and I have implemented "Coughing and Sneezing etiquette 101" in all my classes.
Before the cold took hold of me I was able to experience a beautiful day at Wayheon beach with a group of fellow teachers. It was a great day.
We thought it was a fantastic idea to get a watermelon to take to the beach...which it was, however, no one brought a watermelon cutting device. So we put our educated minds together and came up with a solution. A rock wrapped with a plastic bag (for sanitary purposes of course) and another plastic bag for our watermelon smashing surface in an attempt to keep the sand off. So with bated breath we all waited in anticipation as the rock was raised, and I'm happy to report that the effort was a success. Watching us eat from this cracked open watermelon must have been something similar to observing the eating habits of primates, but I have never enjoyed watermelon more so than I did in that moment.
The Watermelon Feast
Watermelon corpse
