Teaching, I think, is very slowly getting better. I'm starting to think of games and things on my own to do in class and am using more online resources. I think most of my students are starting to accept me also. Last night one of the Korean teachers told me that one of my students told his mom that he really liked my class and thought it was a lot of fun. Favorite student now? Haha. It definitely helped to hear that when I was still feeling pretty unsure of myself. I still have the bad class though, and this last class only one of them paid attention to what I was saying. I was about on the verge of tears, but if I cry, I'll never get them to respect me, even though it probably wouldn't make much of a difference anyway. They may be sitting in different seats next class. I'll just keep trying new things I guess.
Oh, I got my hair cut to just below my shoulders. It was getting way too long and it was always tangled and hot and I finally just did it. It was only 8000 won. I was so amazed at that price.
So, this weekend I went camping on a beach with 4 other girls from Avalon/Reading Star/Langcon. We were up at 5am Saturday to catch a bus to take us on a 2 hour ferry ride to an island off the coast of Korea. There was a group of Canadiens on the boat going to the same island and we talked to them a little bit. But when we got to the island we were going to different beaches. We were going to the heart shaped beach. I really need to make a picture page for people who don't have Facebook, it's really awesome how it looks like a heart...maybe this morning, I'm feeling ambitious. Anyway, we got to the beach and it was totally deserted and beautiful. It was the first time I've been to a beach without big waves, there were just small waves. Enough to make the pretty beach sound to fall asleep to. The water was REALLY cold though. I didn't go in much past my ankles. That didn't matter, we still got tanned/sunburnt. Also, there were little bugs everywhere! I don't like bugs, but I made it through :-) So we tanned and hiked around the rocks a little bit. Then we debated trying to walk to the closest village to look for food. We had to walk up this huge mountain and down the other side, probably at least 2 miles, maybe more, until we found a couple and we communicated that we were looking for a store. They called a taxi for us and our cab driver saved the day!! He spoke pretty good English. He took us to the store and waited for us to shop before taking us back. He also told us the ferry times for the next day since we had forgotten to look and we picked a time for him to come pick us up the next day. It was perfect. So we got back and knocked an entire tree off the hill for firewood and set up our fire. Then we watched the sunset from a little bluff over the water. It was so pretty. Then we ate and hung out around the fire before falling asleep. It was great. If anyone had ever told me that there were empty beaches that you could camp on without being bothered, I wouldn't have believed it!
There are so many more pictures...like I said, I'll work on that...
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