Zoo Trip

Another short post.. Can't seem to get myself motivated for much longer than a little post these days! It's weird trying to write about life when it's just boring old life!!

Anyways, we went to the zoo on Wednesday. I asked my homeroom kids what their favorite part of the zoo was - what animal they liked the best. The only answer they would give me was "Hilary Teacher and Danny Teacher." So despite the fact that I had nothing to do with them at the zoo (we split into two groups and I wasn't part of theirs - I supervised a different class), and I teach then twice a day all week, we were still their favorite part of the day. Weird!!

Gotta love kids!

Korean Taxi Ride

The other day I decided to take a taxi home.. for very important reasons (I had to get home to do phone teaching and I wanted enough time to order pizza and have it arrive before I had to start - REAL important...). Anyways, I get into the taxi and the guy starts talking to me in mostly Korean but with the odd English word thrown in. At this point of my stay in Korea, I can understand certain words in Korean.. not too many I have to say. So he asks me where I'm from, and when I say Canada, he goes, "Oh, goood. Canada, number one!" And repeats this over and over.. then he says some other stuff and I finally figure out he's asking me if I have kids.. Then I say no. And I think from there he was asking me if I have a boyfriend or husband back in Canada. Then if I have one in Korea (either that or he was asking me if I wanted him to be my boyfriend - not sure - this is where it got hazy). Oh, also at some point he goes, "Jesus?" And I say "No!" Hahaha. Good times in broken English and Korean.

Pictures

Okay I finally got a digital camera.. my new baby!! But anyways, in lieu of emailing random images and posting them here and there, I'm gonna put them all in photobucket. You can see them at http://s155.photobucket.com/albums/s307/hilthepill/ I should add more soon, it just takes so damn long!!

I am a Mommy

Okay - just a quick post because the night is winnowing away (correct usage??) and I'm lazy...

This week I have become a mommy. One of my classes - I am their only foreign teacher and they've become quite attached to me - and me to them, I'll admit. I teach them twice a day MWF and once on T/Th.. anyways, any time I see them in the hall they yell "Hilary Teacher!" and run over and hug me, wave or smile. When they walk past my class and they see me through the window, I hear them yelling my name - when I'm not teaching them, they try and kidnap me into their class.. (they're about 5 or 6 years old)... anyways one little girl always wants to hang off of me.. she was hugging me the other day, and called me "Oma" (which means mom in Korean) then all the others started chanting "oma, oma oma...". The next day I was handing out some stuff and this little guy, Peter, goes "Thank you, Mommy." Ahh good times...

And in one of my older afternoon classes, one of my students who I've taught for almost 5 months now called me Mom today! Weird!!

So I think I am officially a "Mom." Now I just need to get a minivan and some mom jeans.