"What A Nice Day!"

This entire week I have been with the grade 5's. They started a new unit called, What A Nice Day. The first two days were spent with the students learning dialogue that had, What A ( ) ( ), as sentences. Then came the What A Nice Day chant, which basically went: Oh Nice, Oh Nice, What A Nice Day - repeat Oh, It's So Beautiful - repeat Oh Yeah, Wonderful - repeat Anyways, so students started dance along with the actions on the CD, which was really cute and I wish I had my camera handy, but that didn't happen. However, by the second class I was already wanting to go deaf because the chant got played 2 or 3 times in each class and I had it memorized by the second time it played. There is only so much of a song you can hear in one day before you want to go crazy. Tuesday after school I went to taekwondo and ended up bruising my right foot by my pinky toe, so that was a drag. Wednesday was badminton tournament day at school. The students all went home early and all the teachers gathered in the gym and played badminton. It was divided up by grade. I haven't played badminton in a long time, but I'm pretty good at it. I was on the badminton team in junior high. Anyways, the Koreans are insane badminton players and they play very intensely, so I was bit shy and worried at first that I wouldn't perform that good. We played in teams of two and my team won the first game. The final came down to the grade 1 and grade 6 teachers. I of course, get dragged out to play in one of the final games. The teacher I was with and I didn't perform very good and we ended up losing the game. The grade 1 teacher's won the tournament and the grade 6 teachers came in second. I'm ok with that because we didn't finish last :) Wednesday night I went to dinner and bowling with the usual crew and I didn't break a 100, which was really disappointing because usually I'm a better bowler than that. I will have to step up my game next week. I didn't go after bowling because I was far too tired and getting up early for school and teaching is too tough. The second time I had the grade 5's this week they had do a role-play, which I led. It was quite funny because the grade 5 students were actually really into the role-playing activity. It got kind of frustrating at times because the grade 5's were talking and moving around while other groups were presenting, but there is only so many times you can yell at them to 'shut up.' I also decided to hand out sour soother candies at the beginning of each grade 5 class to the students who answered my introduction questions. Every single student volunteered to speak up on candy days and were dying for me to pick them. I knew all it would take was candy. Park Jung-sun, the grade 5 English teacher ended up really like the sour soothers, so she was really sad when I told her I got them sent to me from Canada and that you can't buy them in Korea. I told her I would get my wonderful family to send me some for her in the next care package they send me and she was so grateful! I don't think she actually thought I would seriously do that for her, but she's adorable, so I will.