Another week past

It's been a good week. Last week, I celebrated Thanksgiving(kind of). On the day of, it was largely forgotten, except that I gave two classes pictures to color and gave all of the students pumpkin candy. On Saturday, though, I had a Thanksgiving meal with Youngsun. It was the first time I've made mashed potatoes and steak and both were delicious, especially the steak. :D

Afterwards, we went with Jin and Eunbea for some coffee and an hour of pool before they had to head back home. Sorry I can't say more, hard to remember much from a week ago. hehe

I still enjoy just being independent. Of course, I miss my family, but I like having a life of my own, as well. One night after work, I was hungry so a coworker and I decided to go and get some grilled pork at a restaurant at 10:30. It's the random, spur-of-the-moment stuff that I'm able to do being on my own in a large city that keeps life interesting.

Work went well this week and was pretty normal, overall. Had times where I was so glad that I decided to be a teacher and then had those times where you just want to scream at some of the kids, too. Being a teacher is dynamic and you can never expect the same child to act the same way on a consistent basis. Well, okay, there are some kids who are just plain bad and others who don't have a bad bone in their body. Most, though, are just unpredictable. Keeps it fun, I guess. :P

I was so glad to have the weekend come, not that the week was difficult. I just always love that last day of work, Friday. I have mostly fun, easy classes and it's the final day before two days of no work. This month will be light anyway since we get about 6 days of because of Christmas break and New Years.

Last night, Eunbae randomly texted me that he was in Osan and that it was freezing and could he come to my house. It has been freezing, by the way, like 25 degrees on average. I said sure, it's only 12:30, so a few minutes later he showed up. We stayed up until about 3 watching tv and chatting and he spent the night here. We had made plans earlier to go ice skating today, anyway. At Osan City Hall, which is across the street to the side of my apartment building, they just finished putting in the ice rink for the Winter and I've been wanting to try ice skating for the first time in my life.

This morning, we grabbed some lunch and coffee and then hung out at my place for a while until Gicheon showed up. Since he was totally opposed to ice skating because of the cold, we left him at a pc room and Eunbae and I went an skated for about half an hour to forty-five minutes. We decided to leave a little early cause we were a bit cold, Eunbae moreso because he kept falling. lol It was a cheap enough price, anyway. $1 for the hour and a half, including skates.

After we finished, we hung out at my place and Youngsun and Young-ah came and Young-ah made Deok-bok-ki for us for dinner. It was a great day and I saw about 5 students at the rink that I was able to talk to. I love meeting my students outside of school. :D

Visit my Facebook album for the pictures from today and this past week:
Starting from picture 47.