Massagey and fried?

So grocery shopping here in Korea is not the same as going to Randall's/Tom Thumb back home..you either go to the HUGE Home Plus or the little family mart on the corner... either way you can't buy much cuz you have to carry whatever you purchase home... no luxury of a trunk or even a car... so anyways. I resigned myself to finally buying salt and butter... and my mother gave me a cucumber slicer she bought for like a dollar on the subway so I can give myself facials with cucumber slices...so I got some cucumbers as well...

The guy who was at the register looked at the cucumbers and salt... he pointed to them both and he said, "oh! make chigae?" chigae is a korean soup, I've yet to actually consume it... so then I said, "no no" and I point to the cucumbers and point to my face and go "aaaah" and then I point to the salt and mime cracking an egg and I give him the little "sizzle" sound and then pretend I've got a salt shaker in my hand and shake vigorously... he kind of looks at me for a minute and then goes, "massage-ey and fried?" to which I say, "yes yes!" and then he laughs and gives me my change.

It's everyone's biznass to know your biznass here in Korea

Class haikus

So in my Aim High class (the highest level we offer at SLP) I decided to supplement our text book and teach these kids poetry. I thought, they've got a sophisticated grasp on english, surely they'll appreciate it. And actually it's been going pretty well...
We started off doing a Bio Poem. Then we did haikus, and then last week we did a cinquain. As each students wrote their own I did my own. My bio poem and cinquain suck a lot but I thought these haikus were pretty damn cute. I wrote one for each season:

flowers awaken
"wake up nature, rise and shine!"
press snooze one more time

itchy blood sucker
incessant whizzing in ear
splat! red on the wall

confetti from trees
gusts of wind blow party horns
autumnal get down

kids zipped up- marshmallows
leaves tumble from sleepy trees
my scarf itches me

I tried reading Robert Frost to the students to inspire them, but they didn't really get him.... but they do like Shel Silverstein!

Take 523

So i've tried many attempts at blogging by Liz Teacher inspired me to have a second go round... all my attempts might not have been successful but they've all been gung ho from the get go!! Just make sure to show some love from time to time so that these posts will not all have been in vain. So here I am almost at my 6th month mark and 2 days away from my 23rd birthday..... here we goooooo!