Baseball, Ribs and Exhaustion.

Sunday was used as a day of rest, as it should be. Rebekah and I got together later in the day to go for a walk around our neighborhood, so we can enjoy the cherry blossoms before they disappear. Our walk was just over an hour and felt really good. Afterward, we headed to Lotte Mart to pick up a few necessities and then we parted ways. I wanted to be in bed early because Monday's are never an enjoyable day. Monday turned out to be a pretty alright day. My first and second period classes were moved, so I only had to teach four classes and the last one didn't end until 2:40 p.m. so the afternoon flew by. Since, I've decided to walk home after school, I've started to feel a lot healthier and more energized. You see so much when you walk and find things you never knew existed when you take the bus. I met up briefly with Nicole for some ice cream at McDonalds, so I wasn't in bed as early Monday night as I wanted to be. Tuesday was an average day. I dislike teaching the grade 6's, so Mondays-Thursdays are rough. However, I walked home with Rebekah on Tuesday because she works in new Song-do too and then I headed to my first SK Wyverns baseball game of the season. I met up with Andrea, Mike and Andrea's dad. Nick joined us later when he finally got finished school. I love going to Wyverns games because the fans are so intense and enthusiastic and the Wyverns have won the championship for the past two years running.

The SK Wyverns mascot who only moments before this picture almost biffed it. I'm almost positive the girl mascot is new this year. I definitely don't remember her from last year. This year they decided to upgrade the stadium. What better way then by building a mobile ship that rises up at the beginning of the game, so this guy can announce the players names. It is completely unnecessary. We always sit in the SK Wyverns fan section because it is the most upbeat and exciting. Just a picture of our semi-decent seats we always sit in. The fans on the 3rd base side are cheering for he LG Twins. The team the Wyverns were playing. This picture was taken because the foreign player on the Twins team's last name is apparently "Fettucini" according to the Korean spelling of it. We found it quite amusing.

The games are never boring even when the SK Wyverns lose 7-3 :( The best part of the night was being on TV twice. Korean friends were texting us telling us they can see us on TV, so we are kind of celebrities now...lol! Wednesday was an average day at school. I sat bored in the office from 12:30-4:30 p.m. I basically just stayed caught up on TV shows, finished gathering my materials for my grade 3 classes and teacher's class on Friday. I came home and napped before heading out to meet Andrea, Mike, her dad, Mike Lambert, and Nick for the delcious ribs in Yeonsu. I made the mistake of having beer at dinner, which made me want to stay out and drink more, so Nick, Mike and I headed to guwol-dong where we met with Chris and enjoyed more drinks at Rio's. We left Rio's around 2:00 a.m. so Nick decided to go home, but Mike, Chris and I went for galbi and more drinks. When we finally called it a night it was after 3:00 a.m. I ended up sleeping in on Thursday, so I missed my first class. I felt bad, because it was my own fault I didn't felt well and I ended up missing a class because of it. I was exhausted all day at school and had to teach five grade 6 classes, which ended up being four because I was late. Around 2:00 p.m. Enee and I left to go check out the Edu Expo in new Song-do and then we had a co-teaching meeting to attend at a school in my old area of town. I ended up having to give a presentation that I was asked to do 15 minutes before it was time to present. It's a good thing I'm a relatively decent public speaker and that the presentation was seriously 5 minutes long. After the meeting Enee drove, Holly and her co-teacher home and myself. Holly and I went for shabu shabu and then we parted ways. I ended up falling asleep at 8:30 p.m. which was a good idea because I was so exhausted from my late night. Today (Friday) was a GREAT day! I had four grade 3 classes and their lesson this week was on Occupations. After Enee and I taught our last class we headed back to the Edu Expo for about an hour and a half and then we returned to school because my first teacher's class of the semester was at 3:00 p.m. However, we had to push the teacher's class to 3:30 because the grade 3 teachers ordered some food for us all to share together. The teacher's class was only Enee, Jiny (my old co-teacher), and my grade 4 English co-teacher. I have chosen to do basic conversation with them based on article's I give them to read each week. They seemed to really enjoy the concept, so we'll wait and see how it works out.