Highlights of my Day... Thursday, July 20

1. Earned Ryan’s pity with these brutal slave hours and so today he surprised me by driving me to school…. awesome!
2. I’m really loving the whole dictatorship here and all the weak links in that chain (note the sarcasm)! I got asked to be tomorrow’s MC for the final presentation but they kept on passing me off to other people for instructions on what to do. Finally put my foot down and said they had till 3pm tomorrow to produce a list of presenters and names I am required to mention…. let’s see if they do it now.
3. Taught my little paparazzi buddy Jae Ho’s class. His partner wasn’t feeling good today and so I was his partner for the shopping game and he was loving it!!! I never taught his class the terms “shoplifting” or “shoplifter” but I did teach him about how to make more money with his store… overpricing baby! Together we ran the stationary store. Our prices were ridiculously high but we won them over with claiming out pens were magic pens and praying on the youngest boy in class who had no idea on buying low, selling high. It was so hilarious!
4. Must admit that although the camp itself is not particularly impressing me, the grounds of this university are great and the food they’ve been serving is awesome! Definitely a five star cafeteria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5. Awkward moment at the lunch table when I said, “I love this meat. It’s so delicious” and Mr. Cranky Pants teacher freaked on me for saying I loved meat in front of two vegetarians. Mind ya, the two vegetarians could care less but he made a big stink about it. This comment coming from a much older dude who makes his 3 month old puppy live in his small van (aka the purple OVEN) while he teaches…. and he says I’m not smart. Hmmmm.
6. Tonight we had the grand “Golden Bell” quiz game with all the elementary kids. They really liked it but some of the questions were so bogus! For example… Q: What’s the most spoken language? A: American. What?! They really need to hire someone to edit their brutal English or they should at least utilize us teachers and have us edit them!
7. Admitted that I didn’t know some of the answers to a couple of the Golden Bell questions and this totally shocked my students. They gave me the whole “I’ve just seen a ghost” look. Yikes!
8. Totally impressed the socks of some cute Korean dude who had asked to sit beside me on the long bus ride home. He was playing with an almost completed rubix-cube (so old school!) and joked that it’s impossible. So, I told him to close his eyes. After about a couple of minutes I let him open his eyes and he was so shocked that I had figured it out. Little does he know, I pulled the oldest trick in the book on him and had switched the stickers around! Ha, ha, ha!
9. Ran into “Rubix Cube Boy” a little later that evening as I sat down at Kimbop Nara. He said he’d pay for my meal if I could do it again but show him this time. He mixed it up a bit, I took it and then I started peeling off the stickers. Not only was he not impressed but he also didn’t finish his meal, nor pay for mine. Hey… that’s not fair. I could have done it again so he owes me!
10. Finally reached home at 10:15pm… not cool!

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's the most spoken language?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Truth is the safest lie.
-- Jewish Proverb