Monday night it snowed so I woke up to a few inches of snow. And as it seems to be a pattern, I promptly slipped on my apartment steps. hahaha I believe a trip (no pun intended) to a shoe store is in my future for better tractioned boots.
Besides trying not to die on my way to work, it's been an eventful week and it's only Wednesday. We found out we have Feb 2-6 off for the Lunar New Year (aka Chinese New Year). Since this will be our only chance to travel, about 7 of us were looking for somewhere to go. Only problem, there were very few available flights BACK to Korea from Japan or Hong Kong, or basically any Asian country. After a failed visit to a travel agency in Itaewon, we searched for things ourself and found a great deal - round trip flight to Beijing plus 4 nights at a hotel within walking distance of the Forbidden City for roughly $600. Now the joke is that I have to train myself to not fall for when we go to the Great Wall. Although not all 7 of us are going (only 3), I cannot wait!!!!! Never in my life did I think I'd have these opportunities to not only live in another country, but also to travel to some famous historic places around the world. The history teacher in me is lovin' it. So very grateful for everything I've been given.
Today I finally made my way to a better, English-speaking dentist. My teeth have been sandblasted clean. Dentist tools have some of the worst sounds in the world. And fortunately, no cavities!!!! Good to know I'm just paranoid.
Other event worth sharing for a laugh occurred, where else, but the classroom. Last night I had my Par Reading class, which is a mix of higher elementary grades and middle school. As one can expect, 2 of the older middle school boys are a handful. They're good friends, but like to mess with one another. They had opened the window since they thought the room was hot (I never understand why they don't just take off their jackets...), and near the end of class one boy took his friend's pencil case and threw it out the window. I saw it happen as it was going out the window so I don't know if it was an accident, or on purpose (most likely purpose ha). All I could do was drop my jaw and mentally cuss. In retailiation, the other boy quickly grabbed his friend's pencil case and dropped THAT one out the window. Our classes are on the 4th floor of an office building, so who knows where they dropped. Obviously they wanted to leave class early and get them, but I purposely drew class out as long as I could. So next class, they're sitting closer to me, away from one another, and no where near that damn window.
Gotta love middle schoolers.
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