So today might be one of my best days ever. Okay, so that's probably an exaggeration, but still, it's been a really really great day. Yesterday and today and tomorrow have all been great. Really really really great. Seriously.
This week I've been teaching at an English summer camp for the Nambu district of Incheon. It's maybe 15 schools or so, and the camp combines some of the highest level English students from each of the schools to attend an English camp led mostly by foreign English teachers such as myself. All classes have 12 students, 6 boys and 6 girls. This is probably the first time boys and girls have been in the same class since they started middle school, so that was strange. In my class, the boys and the girls will totally separate. They didn't talk to each other, they didn't work with each other unless we literally forced them to. It was awful.
But beside my classes stark gender segregation, everything in the camp was great. My students were all awesome, if a little shy at first. But, by Thursday, the boys especially, they could hardly be corralled into orderly groups. On Thursday we had a field trip to the Incheon Science Hall and Incheon International Airport. The boys basically ran wild in the museum and we (my korean co-teacher and I) had to go searching for them on more than one occasion. We also played faux-basketball at the station that had a fan underneath a ball that pushed the ball through a hoop. You know, that exhibit that every single science museum ever has. Well, we took the ball and played basketball. I hit the first shot I took, you know, since I'm a baller and all.
Then at the airport, I was in charge of the boys group and they were absolutely terrified to speak to any foreigners. I had to literally drag them to people in order to get them to start talking. Then trying to keep them away from the dunkin donuts and family marts was next to impossible. Luckily after that activity was over, they were seated for the rest of the time. That day, the boys also snooping and reading my text messages as I wrote them and discovered that I can speak some korean. They saw me write 영화가 재미없었어 and were like omg omg you speak korean, and then proceeded to speak a ton of korean to me. It was annoying, but funny because I wouldn't speak to them in Korean.
Then today was our last day of camp which was kind of sad because we had bonded over the week, but mostly I was just thrilled because camp was exhausting for me. It ruined my sleeping patterns completely as I had to take naps just to stay up past 9 p.m. But today, my students all said goodbye and my girls were sad (and my boys didn't care, obvi). But I gave my cyworld address to my students so hopefully they will add me on cyworld or whatever. So far one student already has. Weeney (that's her English name which she chose. It gets me every time).
Plus tonight I finally get to see my boo after a whole week.
Plus plus plus the best bit of news ever: I GET TO MEET SE7EN TOMORROW! OMG OMG OMG OMG. Yes, I mean the Se7en that I have been fawning over the last few blog posts. Same Seven. I got picked to attend a fan signing. Only 150 people will be there and my friend Coleen also got picked. OMG, I can't even express how effing thrilled I am to get to meet him. And he's gonna sign my new digital bounce cd. And I'm gonna write him a letter and hopefully he'll read it and show it to Taeyang and then Taeyang will fall in love with me via the letter. Ok, obviously this is just wishful thinking, but still. ^_____^ Tomorrow at 6:30 I will be in a line of people to talk to and (possibly) HUG Seven. gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. I screamed when I got the text message from Hottracks, the music store at Kyobo that said I was picked.
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