3 day Weekend

So today is Memorial day so it is a national holiday here. It was very nice to sleep in.
On Friday I shadowed the outgoing teacher and observed his classes and his teaching style. It is going to be a lot different from the Daejon school, but I am looking forward to the challenge.
My schedule is a little rough...
Monday through Friday: 6:30am, 7:30am and 10:30am
M,W,F: 7pm, 8pm, 9pm
Tues, Thurs: 8-10pm
All of my classes are advanced levels so it is very nice to be able to just talk to people and correct their minor mistakes... most common is the mixing of the pronouns.
On Sunday I was asked if I could do some extra work for the school.. I would work for 3 hours and be payed 75 000 Won (about 75 USD) for my trouble... and I would be payed within the week.
Cash is a little tight right now... so I totally jumped on the band wagon and was ready on Sunday for whatever task they had laid out for me.
What my task turned out to be was... the Korean Government has a program where 7 male students are chosen to go to Afghanistan to aid in the rebuilding of the country... and my school (BCM) had been asked to provided 4 native teachers to provide the oral English test to the 200 or so applicants.
So we (3 other teachers at my school) arrived in Seoul at 2:30pm and were told that the tests would commence at 3pm. Each test would be 5-7 minutes and we had to grade their Pronounciation, Grammar, Vocabulary and Overall use of the English language.
Some of the tests were horrid... they could not understand me and I definetly could not understand them.. but there were a few men who stood out and deserrved the 10 that I gave them.
It felt extremely weird.... if they were accepted into the program they would be sent to a war-torn and unstable country... and if they were not... they would be forced to complete their military service. (In Korea all men, once they are done their education, must complete a madatory military service of 2.5 years... I have heard that this is extremely tough and the best day of their (the soldiers lives) are when their tour of duty is up). So needless to say I was strongly advised that this was an important job to do since it would affect the applicants lives... can we say pressure.
All in all the day was very good... I was able to meeet and become friends with fellow BCM foreign teachers and later spent the evening drinking with Liz (another new teacher who lives in Suji).
The cabs here are amazing! To go from Suji to Ori Stn... where I live (about a 15 minute car ride) was only 3500 Won (about 3.50 USD). You are not supposed to tip... but I let the guy keep the change from our ride.. I mean a person has to eat right?!?
Anyways... I think that this move was the best for me... I am really enjoying my time here and am learning to be spontanious and become soooo much more independent. I am talking to both foreigners and natives a like and have made many contacts and friends in this fashion.
Anyways... I have been at this PC bang for about an hour so I should probably go home and clean my room.
I have a computer at school that has access to the internet, so I should be able to load some pictures starting tomorrow.
MUAHS