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This week moved rather slow for me. I hardly had any classes to teach, which made for very long and boring days in the English Zone. Plus, I've decided to stop going out during the week because I'm trying to get/stay healthy, save money, have time for work-outs and be in bed by 10. It sounds lame, but my first six months in Korea were tiring and utter chaos, but fun to say the least. I think staying in during the week has added to the slowness of my weeks going by. Monday I had to do the grade 5 Golden Bell and Tuesday I had the grade 6 Golden Bell Competition. The Golden Bell Competition is when certain students compete in an English contest. They each have their own white boards to write the answers on. I ask them a question in English and they write the answer down on the board, in English. If they get it wrong they are out and the competition continues until there is only one person left to declare the winner. The poor grade 5 girl that won started crying while the grade 5 English teacher was congratulating her because she was embarrassed standing at the front of the gym with all the grade 5 students and teachers watching her. A boy won in the sixth grade and he did not cry. Wednesday night was the only night I went out and that was because it was Peter's last bowling night before returning to his homeland. I came home from school and took a 3 hour nap before heading to dinner followed by two intense games of bowling. Bowling always goes so late, so I never get home until after 1:00 a.m. so waking up Thursday was difficult, but not as tiring as I expected. I only had two classes to teach on Thursday and one ended up getting cancelled and moved to Friday. I was also invited to the kindergarten classroom to talk to them about myself and Canada because they were learning people of the world. They were the cutest little things and I wanted to eat them all up. I gave each of them a Canada pencil and as I handed them out to each student they would give me a hug. It was adorable and so friggen cute. The class gave me a gift as well for taking the time to come visit them.

These are the adorable pens they gave me as a gift. It's a Korean girl and boy dressed in traditional Korean clothes.

Friday was also a very slow moving day for me. I only had three classes and the weather outside was so cold. Fall is in the air and I was prepared, but I'm so glad to be done with the heat. Also, Jiny tells me that the classes will be starting 20 minutes earlier this morning literally 2 minutes before they were about to start. This meant I would be finishing teaching over an hour earlier then I was scheduled. In my first class of the day, which is my favorite grade 6 class, one of the girl students goes, "Teacher, why are you from Canada?" I give her a strange look and start laughing, "Because that is where my parents are from." Then Jiny starts laughing and tells her to stop asking me questions. I thought it was the funniest question I've been asked thus far in Korea. What made the whole situation even better, her English name is Lauren. She thought it was fantastic when I told her that my sisters name was Lauren. She went so far as to high five me. To pass the time in the afternoon I talked to my family and headed to the bank to transfer more money home. The bank was a lot quicker than I expected, but I didn't want to go back to school, so I got on the bus and headed home 45 minutes early :)