12 days straight

So right now is a little hectic at the Village. Since we are approaching our 1 year anniversary (dec 7) the school is going through a lot of renovations and a couple of facelifts. This would be all good... except that the construction crew has no concept of time and work until the wee hours of the morning... stop for a couple of hours... and then start again at 6am... not exactly condusive to a great nights sleep. Oh well... hopefully they will be done soon enough.
We are still short a lot of teachers. We need 8 teachers right now... and so a lot of us are pulling overtime to help out. So today I finished the weekend shift... then start my normal night shift tomorrow. All in all it went atright... just a few hiccups... but the kids were great and I was teaching a reallty good class. I taught the Dream Edu room. This is a new room that is being sponsored by Dream Education. The whole concept of the room is to start the children thinking about what jobs they would like to do in the future... and encourage them to reach for any dream... no matter how unrealistic it may be. Then... we show then 15 minute videos on famous people (inventors, scientists, artists and magicians) that were able to dream big and succeed. The concept of the room is really good... and for the English teacher teaching it... it is a real hoot. Not only are you impressed with the ambitions of your students... but then you get to watch a 15 minute Konglish video about someone famous.
For those of you that aren't aware... Konglish is a mixture of Korean and English... and though it is not gramatically correct... you will find that after several months of living and working in Korea you too will be saying things like "I am more sadder than yesterday" or "This is a lot funner than I thought".
The videos in the Dream Edu class do have some Konglish in them... so it is funny towatch them. That being said... the videos are really well done (animation wise) and I actually end up leaving the class learning a lot about historical figures (such as Dr. Livingstone and Helen Keller).
I seem to be catching every strain possible of the Korean flu while I am here. I had my flu shot when I left Canada... but Korean flu strains seem to be different and hit with more of a vengence. Other than my stash of Canadian Buckleys... no other North American over the counter drug seems to help. Oh well.. pay day is on Wednesday.. so I am thinking that I will venture to the Ansan Clinic. The doctor's there speak English and it is only 5 minutes away by Taxi.
Anyhoo... I am using my roommates comp.. so I should get off... she has a Mac... and I must say that it is pretty sweet.. though me.. being a PC girl... seems to continuously mess stuff up because the shortcuts that I know (ie. Control C for copy) do not exist with a mac... meh.
Cheers!