Holiday=BOREDOM!

Sorry I haven't updated this sucker in awhile but truth be told there's nothing exciting to update. The biggest event of this past week was that I actually started working as an English teacher. I have no idea why people get worked up when starting a new job, especially one of this type. First off, no job I'll have will be as hard as the work in college was. That said, no job will ever be as fun as college neither. I'm pretty much a babysitter of kids now and I keep them busy by chatting with them. My lessons usually consist of me saying things like: "How are you today?" "What is today?" "What is the weather like today?" "What do you see in the picture?" "No, we're not going to play hangman." "Get out your workbooks and start on page ..." "Who knows the answer to ..." "So everyone is done? I guess we'll play hangman."
That's my routine so far. I'm only in each class for 40 minutes so it's not as if it's overbearing and the kids are still learning English because I'm not speaking Korean with them. In fact, the most fun classes are the ones where we all just sit and chat instead of following the same boring routine of listen, repeat, now you do it on your own. Kids here are remarkably smart and pick up on things super easy. They can read and write much better than they can speak English so the workbooks are done as soon as they're assigned. Their parents ride them worst then anything close to parents in America. As soon as the kids leave public school, they come to our English school, after that they head to Taekwondo, Robotics, Music lessons etc... Most get homework from each school and don't get home till 11pm!!! Then they get up with the Sun and they're back to the same routine.
Meanwhile, your narrator and lazy American compatriot is spending the Chuseok holiday reading in his new place and going to PC Bangs (Internet rooms) and keeping up with World affairs. Chuseok is the equivalent of Thanksgiving in America and its completely boring. Why? Everything is shut down for 3-4 DAYS! For someone who just got to Korea and doesn't have much to do anyways, limiting my options doesn't motivate me to look hard. My reaction- become a hermit. I've finished two books in four days; it's amazing what one can accomplish without TV or computer access. Someone save me, because all I want to do is go back to work!?!