if you could have one superpower...

new student camp week!

last thursday we were informed that we were to teach prospective new students this week. lucky for me, i got conversation class (while other unfortunate souls were stuck with the likes of science and math), so i got to play pictionary and 20 questions and talk with my students all week. not a bad deal.

a LOT better than sitting at a desk for eight hours doing "lesson plans" like last week.

a friend took me to get a guitar last week and so i'm spending some free time after work learning to play! i like having the creative outlet and its a good break from the everyday piano-hymns at school.

today in class, i had them ask and answer "what if" questions and the most interesting was

"if you could have one superpower, what would it be?"

the most common answer: "invisibility". if that doesn't give an accurate social commentary on the average korean high school student, i don't know what does.

best meeting ever #1: the weekly friday afternoon meeting is lost on most teachers. as the final stepping stone to the weekend, hardly anyone actually pays attention. today was more amusing than usual. we actually have assigned seats but today a few of us rebels chose to sit in the very back pew (against the back wall) just for fun, at least ten rows behind everybody else. text messages and teary-eyed laughter are all i fondly remember of the meeting.

quote of the week: "aww you're such a good student!" "good teacher makes a good student" :)

and definitely the song of the week, can't stop listening. boy lilikoi - first release from jónsi's (yep, from sigur rós) solo project to be released april 5th (and he's playing the the showbox sodo april 9th AND 10th...you should go because i can't!)...and he sings in english...a soaring and majestically epic song...



great is thy faithfulness.