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The house governors put up a sign. Apparently there is a new clothes line or clothes pole or something like that on the roof, but you have to use your own clothes pins. I didn't know we could use the roof for our own personal laundry drying needs. Live and learn.
Since my midterm test is only 30 minutes long, I decided to use a game to relieve stress before the test. We played Password. I had wanted to show the students a clip of the TV game show Password, but the overhead projector for the computer in the classroom wouldn't work. We played anyway, but they sucked at it. I did it in lieu of a vocabulary section of the test. Should have had a vocab section on the test! They are SO lucky!
This house is a wreck again already! I can't keep a place clean to save my life. Need a maid... well, probably need an engineer the way I absolutely destroy a house just by living in it!
Laura and I made some arrangements to go to a Halloween party in Daegu at some hotel. There's supposed to be a buffet and all that. She said it was basically an event where Koreans can gawk at foreigners having a good time while wearing costumes. I would love to see Koreans let loose sometime and enjoy themselves without inhibitions. Not holding my breath, though.
Lotte SuperCenter isn't selling Hoegaardens at all anymore, so had to go to HomePlus for my favorite beer. Lotte is on my list. grrr
I'v discovered this spread they call marron. It's like carmely goodness you can spread on toast. It's basically candy posing as a breakfast accoutrement, but I don't care. It's great. Tomorrow I'm going to mix it with peanut butter to see how it holds up under the conditions of my bizarre eating habits.
I went out on my bicycle for a long while today and came across this little shop selling pumpkins. A lot of the pumpkins have their stems still on them, so they'd be good for Halloween. Koreans don't do Halloween, and they don't grow Halloween pumpkins, but these will do. After Halloween, you can eat them!
Tonight I saw a commercial for a car with some kind of special airbags, so I waited and watched three CSI episodes so I could video the commercial if it came on again, but it never did. It was rather cute, a child running and slamming into his mother's breasts, then a shot of an airbag deploying. I think they were comparing the safety of mother's bosom to the safety of the car.
I made a video by the river and in the park with my new Canon camcorder and edited it in iMovie. It wasn't anything special; I just wanted to see how it worked and how well it worked.
Got an email from the departmental office saying that they wanted one of us who don't work Mondays to take over another teacher's Monday morning class instead of the person who volunteered to do it. Maybe that person is doing it grudgingly, I don't know, but the email didn't elaborate, and it's hard to read between the lines of somebody whose English isn't great. One of our teachers was in a car accident, so she's laid up for the rest of the semester and needs other teachers to cover her lessons. I swear to all the gods I don't believe in, our department is under a curse!
As I type this, I'm listening to some men arguing someplace outside....
I took my camera out and caught the tail end of some altercation across the street. The guys had already stripped to their wife-beater undershirts, but there was a woman trying to keep them apart. Lots of swearing. Lots of yelling. The camera missed the good stuff, I think, but I might post what I have later.
As an aside, I've always wondered why men wear wife-beaters. They're completely useless at protecting your clothing from sweat stains. If you don't care that your clothes get sweat stains, then why bother wearing any undershirt at all?
There's a nightclub in town called "Ho-bahk Nah-eet-uh". Ho-bahk means pumpkin, and "nah-eet-uh" is just the English word 'night' with a Korean twist. Anyway, they have a small fleet of these vehicles with the pumpkin on top, apparently just for advertisement. They'd be great at Halloween, but Koreans don't do Halloween unfortunately. Wonder if they rent them out... hmm.
Went to the university and picked up my class lists. They come with pictures already on them! Cool. Tomorrow I have two classes late in the afternoon and early evening. Never did get my syllabus translated into Korean, but I don't know anybody who can do that anyway. Not around here, that is. Eh, it's good practice for them to read English. Some of the teachers have such complex systems of grading and homework and what-not that they need to tell the kids in Korean what's what. My system is rather simple. I'm having them do homework online to save paper and hassle. Their weekly homework is just an email to me about a topic I assign, and they have to use the grammar and some of the new vocabulary of the week. They have until every Sunday to get me their week's homework. If it's late, they get a zero, but I will read it and comment on it all the same, for their edification... maybe. Depends on whether they're serious learners or not. Some of these kids could not care any less about learning to use English.
Rained most of the day. The humidity was oppressive even though it wasn't hot. My laundry is having a hard time drying on the rack.
Oh, have to make a jab: Focus on the Family, the radical religious group in the U.S., prayed for rain to ruin the Democratic Party convention last week, but it looks like God got all confused about whose convention to ruin. Too bad Louisiana has to suffer, though. Damned Republicans.
