Eventful-ish Day

November 11, 2010

Status: Alive but I wanted to be dead this morning.

Hello readers! You know what’s weird? The fact that students in Korea celebrate November 11^th is weird. They give teachers thin breadsticks covered in chocolate called pepero. November 11 is 11-11 so it looks like a bunch of sticks. I asked why students would actually do that and they said it was a celebration created by the makers of the peperos. Lol. That’s pretty funny because it kind of reminds me of Valentines. No matter how silly this day is, I’m glad I got some peperos! That means the students like me! YAY!

Extremely embarrassing news: I stayed out late last night so I woke up this morning feeling like… Blah. I didn’t bother putting on any makeup or doing anything to my hair. I got to school a little early and just checked my emails. 8:35am rolls around and I was thinking “Where is my co-teacher? She’s usually here by now. She must be running late.” Well, 5 minutes later a student came to inform me that my co-teacher was down stairs waiting for me. I totally forgot Thursday= school broadcasting day! That meant I was the one who was late and that I looked like a hot mess! I rushed downstairs and jumped in front of the camera, next to my “news anchor” student. I didn’t know they had already started and that I was supposed to read off the monitor in front of me. I was just looking around while she smiled at the camera uncomfortably. When they finally got me to notice my job I couldn’t read the words because I didn’t bring my glasses! Oh gawwwwwd. What a completely mortifying experience. There I was—late, crazy looking without any makeup, totally oblivious and struggling to read simple English words off the monitor. Did I mention the whole school was watching? They were waiting for me to read key phrases in English so they could repeat it (part of their program to get the whole school involved in learning some extra English) but they saw a confused looking idiot squinting at them instead. I wanted to die when the segment was over. The students felt bad for me and even tried to comfort me by saying “Oh, it’s okay, teacher! It’s your first time so you will do better next week!” Seriously?! Someone just shoot me because I can’t bear looking at the rest of the staff. They’re probably thinking “How exactly is SHE the English teacher again???”

After school, it started raining really bad but I didn’t have an umbrella so my co-teacher offered to drive me home. Jin, a Korean teacher that works at the school, lives down the street from me so we dropped her off too. Jin and I ate dinner together and I told her about my eventful week. Jin’s so nice! I’m glad I met her and Alice.

Tonight: there’s a yellow dust storm warning so I shouldn’t walk around or open my windows. That’s what my co-teacher said. Hmm… I’ve read about the Yellow Dust Storms but I wonder how serious it is. That’s all for today everyone. Hope you guys got some good laughs off of my embarrassing moment x__x