I love class 2-8!

So today I taught my slang lesson from a few weeks ago, since my Thursday classes hadn't had class that week. I forgot how much fun that lesson was! Anyway, my last class of the day on Thursdays is so much fun! The "cool" guy in the class lived in Canada for a year, so has good English and actually makes being good at English cool. (Usually the students with good English pretend like they don't have good English so they don't stand out)

Anyway, the class ends with a game where they all have different slang words and they have to say them in a certain order and I time them. Well, I always let them do it twice and then tell them the fastest time (which was 0:43) and then the third time they try really hard to beat it. Well, I guess when I was handing out the paper slips with their words for the third time, the "cool" kid w/ good English made a plan. So when I said "Go!" and started the timer, they all mumbled their words at the same time and then the kid with the last word said his word. So their time was like 2 seconds!!! HAHA! It made me laugh so hard!!! I wish all the other classes were goofballs like that instead of just being jerks and talking in Korean all the time.

Tomorrow afternoon I'm heading off to hike Seoraksan with my friend Stephanie from high school (she is teaching over here this year also). Seoraksan is the 3rd highest mountain in Korea and is supposedly the most beautiful hike in all of Korea. My host dad told me the peak leave-changing time was last weekend (so he said its not even worth going this weekend) but I think it will still be worth the trip. Unfortunately I have to take about 9 hours by bus to get there! I will leave right after I finish teaching tomorrow at 1 and hopefully catch the 2:20 bus from Suncheon to Seoul, where I will meet with Stephanie and together we will bus over to Seoraksan. It is in the NE corner of S Korea, and I'm down in the SW corner!! I'm sure I will have good stories and lots of good pictures to share!!

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Here are pictures of my picnic with the English teachers yesterday:

This is my gyomushil, or teachers' office. That is my desk in the foreground left. I'm in the corner of the room. The VP's desk is about halfway back on the right side.
Beautiful Fall leaves in a valley.
Eng teachers: from L to R: me, Mrs. Lee (co-teacher), Mr. Cho (co-teacher), Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Song (co-teacher, and Fulbright liason), and Mr. Im. Mr. Kim (co-teacher, whose wife just had the baby last month) is taking the picture.