Updates from the start of the school year

Well, another school year has started and this means, a couple hundred new students who are completely enthralled with a) my blonde hair, b) my eyes which are green/gray/brown with gold flecks, c) my long eyelashes, d) my height or e) my extremely good grasp of English and ability to type English quickly on a keyboard.

This also means that I get a round of introduction lessons and a pretty painless first two weeks of school. My grade threes are creating facebook accounts and joining class groups so I can send out class information and extra credit opportunities to the students to use English in fun ways outside of the classroom. Hopefully there will be enough participation to do scavenger hunts, crosswords, video game quizzes, etc.

My grade one and twos will be making name cards this week. This of course means we get to do a whole bunch  introductions and I get to learn lots of ridiculous things about my students. For example, a grade two student (this is a girl who is 14 years old mind you), wrote, "My dream is to be a femme fatale." Legitimately, that's what she wrote. As her future job goal. Ridiculous.

My grade ones are adorable and love me and today I got some gifts from my students: a Hello Kitty pen and some really really really sexy Taeyang stickers. SCORE.

Frisbee practice has started up and it looks like we're going pretty hard this year with practicing and stuff. It's gonna be intense me thinks... Track workouts, strategy meetings, all sorts of fun stuff to keep me super busy.

And my babies survived their first few weeks at home TOGETHER without mommy. Nova barely escaped death once when Baram decided to push a bath gift set box (containing a full bottle of body wash and a full bottle of body lotion) off a table and onto Nova's leg. Luckily I was home to hear Nova's howl of pain and I cared for him while scolding Baram who thought that immediately after doing this, with Nova walking around on just three legs, it was the perfect time to play fight with Nova. I had to keep them separate as little Nova kept crying and I was so worried. But the next morning (it was about 11pm when it happened, and no emergency clinics to be found) he was hopping all around everywhere and attacking Baram with as much playful energy as he had been before the injury. So everything seems to be all fine now. But, he's got a vet appointment to get his shots next week and I'll be double checking with the doc to verify everything is all clear.

That's it for now.

xoxo
A

Gym

I missed the gym this morning in an unfortunate chain of events that started with my phone's alarm not going off and ending with me waking up at 7 a.m. saying oh shit, I'm gonna be late to work.

Luckily I wasn't late for work. Now I have to determine if it's a good idea for me to go to the gym this afternoon or skip it because I want to do the gym tomorrow morning... I gotta get into the habit of waking up early and just going to the gym. >.< It's so hard though.

Playing go-stop and this bejeweled like game on my phone is awesome.

Also, pocket frogs is the best app for the ipod/iphone EVER.

xoxo
A

Goals

Tomorrow's goals:

1. Go to the bank. Transfer a bunch of money.
2. Go back to school. Pay off a good chunk of my student loans.
3. Buy my sister a gift for being awesome enough to do me a huuuuuuuge favor.
4. Make my lessons for next week.
5. Finish all of the Intro Sogang University Korean course. (Start level 2?)
6. Transcribe all of Big Bang Vol 1 onto www.reallykpop.com (So far only two songs are up)
7. Translate Digital Bounce by Se7en
8. Go to the gym at 6 a.m. and get in a short workout (cardio and abs only... no time for weights)
9. Make speaking exam questions.
10. Actually buy a desk for my damn apartment.

Let's see if I can even get half of that done. Thank god it's exam day. Hopefully that'll empower me. ^^

Blah.

My fall league is on this annoying losing streak. Also, I'm kind of sucking.

I have to go to the gym tomorrow. And I want to buy this Em Polham sweater, and a coach bag, and some other things. And I have to wire transfer some money back home.

Most important is wire transfer. Then gym. Then shopping.

I have have have have have to lose 6-7 kilos (for my non-metric friends and readers, that 13.2-15.4 lbs). I'm not setting a time goal because usually that just serves to either discourage or make for an unhealthy goal. I need encouragement on this goal. I don't just want to lose weight, I want get back in shape. I remember junior, senior years of high school and freshman, sophomore years of university and I LONG for that. I felt so healthy.