Why are they so bad?!?!?!?!

For the record I HAVE A PHONE AGAIN!!! I am so excited, I told my landlord I needed Internet in my apartment and he had it on the next day! :) So with that I was able to hook up my Vonage and use the phone, that by far was the highlight of the week.

On Thursdays and Fridays I teach the spawns of Satan better known as grade 6 and by the end of the day I am just spent!. So, it is official, I dislike my grade 6 classes strongly! For the life of me I am STILL trying to figure out why in the world are they so DAMN bad?!?! Maybe this is my fault because I was thinking "oh Korean kids should be well mannered in class, yeah for sure they will be" They are always talking during class, yelling and fighting each other... What is this some bad Jackie Chan Kung Fu flick???? You would truly think it was a 1st grade class and not a 6th grade class. Today I just had enough, it was time to put these little monsters in check, I refuse to have them showing there behinds in my class. Now, I know some of the teachers hit the kids but I just don't have the energy nor the time to give them BEAT DOWN they need or frankly they deserve. So I have decide to start using "other" methods of discipline. Grade 6 meet my new friend calisthetics Oh no worries the pleasure is all mine. Here is just a little list of what I have started having the kids do:

1. The "chair" (pretend you are sitting in a chair with you back against the wall)
2. Six inches
3. Hold a dictionary in each hand and hold your arms out and to the side
4. Hold your arms out and in front of you.

After asking a student to be quite for the 3 rd time, I kindly told him to get up, face the wall, hold each arm out to the side while holding a dictionary in each hand. The student then quickly said "Teacher, Teacher, Im sorry, I will be quite" Then I said with a smile "Ohhhhhh I bet you ARE sorry now, oh well you still have 3 more minutes hold those books higher please." After making an example out of a few students the class got the point and calmed down. Please people I am open for suggestions, please let me know how else I can effortlessly and effectively discipline these kids.

This week has went so fast but it has truly been a trying week and a half here. My school is great, but my contact here is not sure what I need to do in order to obtain my alien registration card. Apparently the process has changed since last year so every one here is clueless. First I have to go to 4 different hospitals to get all my testing done when I should have only have only had to go to one. After running around all day from hospital to hospital I sit down with my contact and ask about all the next steps and procedures I should follow and such. I was told we will go to the Suwon immigration office on Friday to turn in all my paper work in order to obtain an alien registration card. So I am think ok cool everything is coming together with an arc I will be able to open a bank account and get a cell phone and such life is good... or so I thought! Thursday comes and I ask "hey what time are we going to Suwon tomorrow?" I then get the dumb look. Hanna then tells me she didn't make the appointment and that i should make it my self. I was so HOT! Like, I understand people are busy and all but if I was told that from start I would have BEEN made these arrangements. So I made an appointment for next week (fingers crossed) I am SURE there will be a blog entry about that trip.

I am excited about this upcoming weekend because I am getting my hair braided and have a girls weekend, manis, pedis, fun girl stuff lol. We also got our tickets to the John Legend concert so I am super hype that should be a GREAT time. That's all for now...

Still Seoul Searching...