Of Skanks and Skunks.

Its Korean installment time! I am just so excited for you guys. you lucky fish.

Ha ha, so I told you about the freckle issue. Well after moaning about this in the staff room (and you all know I can whine and moan) I found out that these little kids also find arm hair fascinating. So thankfully I don't have particularly hairy arms, but the guys do! So the kids grab their arm hairs and pull them and then they start to attack the leg hairs. I was in hysterics. The smallest things make me laugh these days.

After only one month in a completely foreign country I have managed to find my own coffee joint. They even know my order! I just walk in and the lady says: "americano hot", no question mark on the end, just a statement. I LOVE THAT. So now even if I don't really feel like coffee I go anyway because it makes me feel like I have achieved something. It helps that the coffee is FABULOUS. And I have finally achieved a goal of mine, which is to have coffee black with no sugar. It happened by mistake really, because of the language barrier I didn't manage to articulate that I wanted sugar with no milk, she just thought I said no milk and sugar. Only after half of the cup did I realise that it was no milk no sugar, I was in heaven. So, two birds one stone at Indigo Blue, my favourite coffee shop in Pyeongchon.

So there is no Z sound in Korean, as stated before, and instead of 'z' they seem to say 'j'. Now one unit in the text book was dealing with Zoo's. So for a week now I have been listening to how the bears in the joo are in a cage. It is so flippin difficult no to laugh when these little ones are being dead serious about the sentence construction they have just mastered. No matter how many times I get them to pretend to be a bee and buzzzzzzz around the room, they still say "I love going to the joo". It's too much. I will have rock hard abs by the time I leave here from teaching these kids.

You know how there are teachers bloopers pages where teachers have recorded the mistakes pupils have made in tests/worksheets etc. Well here is a hilarious one to end off this installment with:

3. I am black. I have a white line on my back. I live in the forest. People don't like the way I smell. Who am I?

A: I am a skank.

peace out