Ok, getting serious Now.

So, hey, guess what. I'm still living in Korea. Yeah, it's going to be like that for about a year. Hopefully the fact that I started another blog will help me get back on here. I know I've promised this to my sparse number of readers many times, but this time I can just try to get in the habit of posting there and posting here in the same night. It may not be every day, but I'm sure it'll be more often than what I've been doing recently.

I love it here. I made sushi for the first time last night because I can easily, and cheaply, find the materials to make it. I'm still getting used to the whole I'm-in-a-huge-city-in-Asia-and-I'm-a-rural-kid-from-eastern-Virginia thing. Culture shock hasn't been that bad though. I'm learning enough Korean to get by and as time progresses I'm hoping to learn more. Funny how one of my target languages from a few years ago is now the official language of the country I live in.

I've thought about moving to Spain or Poland after this. I don't know. I have a good amount of time to think about that later.

Once I figure out my address I'll be sure to post it up here. And on my other blog: thirteenhoursearlier.blogspot.com

As for now, I have some grading to do, not much at all though. And nothing like grading was back at AHS. There's like...3 sentences for 10 kids that I have to read. It's much more simple than reading historical identifications and having to pick out what parts were important and what others were meaningless drivel meant to expand the writing to a point the students thought was an acceptable length. I would have accepted 5 sentences if you could tell me Who, What, When, Where, Why is this Important....but no, there were different ideas for what was supposed to be written. My favorites were from the beginning of the year when the ID was on Columbus and the kids had no freaking idea who he was.

Did you know that Columbus discovered America in the late 1980s? Me either. Because he didn't. It made grading suck something fierce.

But now, I'm circling words and checking to see if the kids put "The" at the beginning of a sentence or include "is" in the middle of their 5 word sentence. Tedious? Maybe. Super easy? Yes.

I also have to make up a vocabulary quiz for my National Geographic class. I think the last quiz I made was a bit too easy because from the look of it, most, if not all of the kids didn't miss any of the fill-in-the-blanks or multiple choice questions. I still have to read their sentences though.

But that's enough rambling about work. It's strange to think that I actually have a job here. Any other time I've visited a country it's been for my own enjoyment. And this is too to most extents, but I do have to do work.

My job starts at 2 in the afternoon. It's great.