Intrepid Girl Reporter

Today’s accomplishments:

- made late students in three (3!) classes sing “The Patbingsu Song”

- instituted the Shoes-for-Pens policy, in which I lend pens to students in exchange for one of their shoes, thus ensuring that I never lose a pen again (unless I lose it myself)

- inadvertently induced fat kid in class 1J to give a solo performance of “Moon River”

- sat in classroom checking New York Times every thirty seconds until the new Dining and Wine section was posted

I know, I work hard.

There has been an absence of blog posts lately due to the fact that I have to anonymify (Program says), which is difficult when your domain name has…your name. I’ll keep you posted.

In the meantime, it’s cooled off here, and I got to judge an English play contest that was probably one of the highlights of the year so far. Imagine, if you will, a fairy tale in which every character is played by Borat, and you might have a starting point. Also recently:  played near a waterfall, met a drunk man who a) quizzed me on what chickens say in America and b) turned out to be the father of one of my students, and discovered that luck is geographic. Did you know that? I’m not afraid to open my umbrella indoors anymore. Koreans aren’t. So until I fly into LAX, I will open my usan whenever I please. Once I hit American soil, of course, all former superstitions apply.

There have been a lot of mistranslations lately, and maybe I’ll blog about that later. Or not.