A Boring Week and Graduation!

The students started back at school on Monday to finish off their last week of the winter semester before they get another two weeks off for spring vacation before the new school year starts.

Since more students are going to be attending the school this coming school year I have been moved out of my English Zone and back into the grade 6 office, however, I have no idea if I will stay in that office for the year because it will depend what happens with my co-teacher and if she changes grades. If she changes grades I will likely be moved to the same office she goes to since she us my main co-teacher and the one who takes care of me :)

Anyways, I didn't have any classes to teach all week because the English curricuulum is finished. I spent the past week sitting in the office catching up on a months worth of TV shows, which I managed to do.

Tuesday, Jiny took me to the Immigration office to renew my work Visa and my Alien Registration Card (ARC). We were there over an hour, which was nice because it wasted time we would other wise be spending bored at school. When we finished at the Immigration office we just headed back to the school for yet another day of nothing to do.

Nicole's mom got into town Monday night, so on Wednesday evening Nicole invited some her friends for dinner with her and her mom. Mike and I were the only ones who showed up and we had dulkgalbi in Guwol-dong and then headed to Rio's afterward to say "Hi," and hang out for a little bit. We were all so tired that we headed home relatively early.

Thursday night I had dinner with my friend Karen in Bupyeong at this delicious chicken restaurant. Afterward, we cruised the underground while we waited for trivia night to start at 8:00 a.m. We also, had a coffee at Holly's coffee. I ended up buying a sweet purse for 10,000 won in the underground. I wasn't planning on staying at Trivia Night because I wanted to head home and get my run in for the night, but I ended up staying and playing on Mike, Andrea and Damo's team. We ended up coming in second and only lost by 1.5 points, how maddening. I headed straight home to bed after trivia.

Friday was the grade 6 graduation at my school. I was a little bit sad to see some of them go, but most of them...good riddance.

The stage where the students recieved their grade 6 certificates. The gym full of grade 6 students. I think they were just over 300 that graduated.

I decided to take pictures of some of my favorite grade 6 students walking the stage. It was really neat how they did it. A picture of each student was displayed on the screen while they recieved their cerificate. It made it easier to see who was who and the pictures were really cute.

This is Lindsay she is my favorite grade 6 class. She has really good English and she is really pretty. This is Amica, she is best friends with Lindsay and in the same class. I think Amica is beautiful and she has impeccable English as well.

The graduation ceremony was about 2 hours long and consisted of many speeches, the grade 6's walking the stage, prizes being awarded, the grade 6 teacher's saying their farewells, and two grade 5 boys playing violin solo's. Jiny and I both had to record farewell speeches to the grade 6's on Thursday morning, but on Friday before the ceremony started we were told they were on hold, so our farewells didn't get played. I was embarassed about mine being played and having to do it period, but then I was kind of disappointed that it didn't get played for the grade 6's. After the ceremony all the teacher's changed and we headed on our overnight field trip.