oh, hey!

back to school!

we started school this week, so things have suddenly picked up again. some new students, and getting to see all the students again was fantastic. but getting back to planning and five classes a day was surprisingly exhausting. as well as moving to a new apartment yesterday. i now have an oven! amazing. there seem to be very few around here.

what the moment #1-5: they tore down part of the building next to our school (it was a restaurant) and are now constructing at all hours of the day. this whole week, in the middle of class, i would be talking about something and i would hear the D-D-D-D-D-DRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE of the drill from outside. wow.

we have a (surprise) day off tomorrow!

sometimes-i-do-things-to-watch-my-students-faces #1: i taught about Russia in geography this week and capped off the last class with an abridged version of Bear Gryll's Man vs. Wild in Siberia. if you haven't seen this show (which i actually hadn't until i came here and watched one on youtube - they're all on there), this guy, bear, uses his survival skills to show you how to survive in the most extreme situations. in this particular episode, he drank fresh yak blood and ate yak eyeball. they also got to see him ride a self-made deerskin toboggan and jump onto a moving freight train. it was fantastic to see and hear their reactions.

famous-by-association #1: about two weeks ago i discovered that a very famous k-pop star is the same kid i went to elementary school with and some of my students FREAKED out when they found out. they take their celebrities very seriously here.

and that's about it. really.

if you had any doubt it your mind that YOU SHOULD GO SEE JONSI ON APRIL 9TH OR 10TH...this is what the show is going to be like...

Jónsi live show by 59 Productions from Jónsi on Vimeo.

miss you. ride my bike for me, will you? it's lonely in my garage!