9:05am-9:30am Dry my hair and put my make-up on in my kitchen/laundry room and make achi'm (breakfast) - Cheesy eggs and ham
9:30-9:50am Walk to work; Walk by portrait studio seeing all the cute baby pics and a gauntlet of women passing fliers out who I reject everyday
10:00-11:15am Transform into "Meghan Teacher" and get ready for the first two classes (kindergarten- Phonics)
11:15-12:35pm Be impressed at the little tikes that can speak dang good English; do my best not to smack others around that are being little poopheads.
12:35-1:15pm Sit with my kidy class for lunch – listen to the girls saying they have a stomach ache and then it becomes contagious and EVERYONE has a stomach ache so they can stop eating…. At first I just let them do what they want. Now, I tell them if they have a stomach ache, they must be too sick to have playtime.. it’s amazing how they suddenly feel better. Then my student Grace will ask if she can stop eating and then she’ll say 10 more bites. Which ultimately forces her to finish her food. I watch her along w/ everyone else shove as much rice into their mouth as they can and some of them even make themselves gag. It’s so cute to see their chipmunk cheeks but not so cute when they look like they’ll throw up or try and talk with their mouth full.
1:15-7 or 8pm Prep for classes, get out of the school and get a snack (Kimbop for W1,000) review my own English skills (prepositions, adverbs, etc), teach 3-6 more classes, check my mail kushipo times (95).
8:00pm As soon as the last bell rings, I’m outta there. Walk home – it’s nice except when a guy on a bike came up and said “sexy?” – I said know under the assumption he wanted a lil’ somethin something and he rode away. If he tried harder, it wouldn’t have taken much to beat him up b/c he was just a little guy.
8:30pm I get to my door and punch my 4 digit code in (I dont carry any keys here)– open the door with hesitation b/c ONE time I opened it and dang near had a heart attack b/c my birth father was in my apartment!!!
8:31- 10pm - Turn the AC on, make some chonyok (dinner) - chicken nuggets w/ spaghetti sauce and salad (no noodles) or a chicken nugget salad – trying not to eat rice or noodles at home, teach myself hanguk (Korean), write a draft for a potential book, watch Korean TV
11-12am Put on either my pink or blue stripped mickey mouse pj’s that my birth mother sewed for me (not so sexy), put in one of my DVDs, and fall asleep eventually.
(6yr old Kindy class - field trip to Ecology Museum)
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