It took me three minutes just to type that title so I will venture a guess and say that I will not be finishing this post in one sitting (especially since I have to leave for my Korean lesson in 20 minutes...) but I thought I should at least start writing since I haven't written in 6 days. And clearly there has been a lot to write about. So I'm going to split this up into parts.
Wednesday - usually I wake up, ride my trainer for a bit, go to Dong Sang to teach, then hop on a bus and go to practice right after school at 5p. We practice, eat, and then we would go home. But we had talked about starting to study together after eating last week, and so that's exactly what we did (one thing I love about Korea too is that when people say "let's do this" they actually mean it - if I were in the States and someone had said 'let's start studying together after practice next week' there is a 50% chance that it probably wouldn't happen - at least in my experience). So we went to the library at PNU and studied quietly for about an hour. I studied Korean, Coach studied English, and S (I forget what I use to denote this man - but it is the graduate student, not the one who is my age - I will call him S2 for now), rather S2, was studying Maturity, Growth and Development (in Korean). So after an hour we went outside to discuss what we studied. Coach asked me what I was studying, and I talked about it for a bit, and he drilled me after for a few minutes. Then, he showed me what he was working on...which was a short story-type thing, but it was about me. Basically he wrote one of the sweetest things that anyone has ever written about me - not over the top though, so it was at least a little realistic :) And when he was done - (the last line was something like 'I am so thankful that I met her and that she is training with us....:) :) ) he asked me - how were my sentences? And how was my pronunciation? :) :) You know, one thing that I don't like about Korea is that it is just not realistic - how would my life ever be like this in the States? I get to train with this amazing team and have many great kids that I teach and am friends with such great people here...it is like a vacation. If I were teaching math here (I know at least one person who is an English teacher and teaches math in English...how amazing would that be!) it would be close to perfect.
I have exceeded my time allowance so I must go. Will write more soon :)
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