So, I told you that my 6th grade class proved my point about not being told anything until the last minute (or not at all and I have to figure it out myself). Well, that was because last Wednesday my 6th grade class troops in at 9:20 without their teacher. Not unusual. Sometimes the class comes in early (or late) and then about five minutes later the teacher will come in. They usually have morning meetings, so they are always a bit late for the first period classes.
Anyway, after five minutes of just sitting there listening to my students talk, I asked them where Mr. Jung was.
"Oh, teacher..." one of the more proficient at English students speaks up. (I call her my Good Student) "He...um...at home."
What.
"Oh..he isn't coming at all today? Not coming?" I said.
"Yes, no coming."
"Are you sure?"
"Teacher!" my "Character girl" as I like to call her, speaks up. "He's sick! He...ooooooo!" She pantomimes squatting and looking either constipated or having serious diarrhea. I tried not to laugh.
"You mean he's sick?"
"No!" says my good student. "He has family problem. So...he not come. So, just you today."
Great. I tried to ask if another teacher was going to be coming to help me, but just then my mentor teacher comes in and informs me that Mr. Jung had a problem at home so I would have to teach the class by myself. Sorry.
Okay, yeah, I'll just teach the curriculum class...no problem. The book sort of has some English instructions...not too bad...
Yeah, no.
6th grade girls are the worst. I had one table of good students that listened and did the work. A table of boys...self explanatory. And a table of "cool girls" who just chattered and didn't listen to me at all. Two of them refused to do anything and just made plastic cord bracelets the whole time. I wanted to bang their heads together...but I refrained.
The 6th grade class has a special ed kid, and luckily he is really sweet, but he kept playing with his phone, so I had to take it away. He wanted it back so badly he tried to sneak over and get it....but I guess he didn't seem to understand that when I'm standing right in front of where I put it, you can't sneak past me to grab it without me seeing...lol.
But, Mr. Jung came to my rescue and came back for second period of class. His daughter was sick with a fever, so I guess he had to take her to the doctor or something. Anyway, I never want to teach 6th grade curriculum again. I really had no idea what to do since I didn't make up the lesson plan and a lot of the more important instructions (I think) were in Korean...so that doesn't help me much.
Anyway, Wednesday continued to be an interesting day. I get to go home after morning class on Wednesday's since there is no after school English for me that day. So I went home and ate lunch, took a shower, walked around Eunpa Lake (the lake near the university area) and just chilled out until dinner time when Laura, Emilee and Lizzie and I went to a newly opened "Mexican" restaurant. The restaurant, "Dos Mas", had its grand opening that day and was giving away free burritos and a drink from 5-7. So, we went and stood in line (it was huge!) for thirty minutes and got our free dinner. I thought it was pretty good, I would go back. Emilee and Laura didn't really care for it and Lizzie, being half-Mexican was thoroughly unimpressed. She kept saying 'Oh, these poor ignorant people! Look how happy they are eating their burritos...they have no idea." Lol...
So, Wednesday is bar night. Kyla and I always to go this bar called TLC because she met one of the guys that works there, Billy. SOOOO adorable! And he is like, the sweetest kid. He's only 22. Haha, too bad for him that Kyla has a serious boyfriend. But honestly, I think he really just want to be friends with all of us because he wants to practice his English.
Anyway, so the other girls for some reason don't ever want to come, we don't know why. Probably because the drinks are expensive. But Kyla and I always get at least two free drinks. Every time. And we always have tons of fun.
So, Kyla and I are bar buddies, and we go on Wednesdays to talk to Billy and the other bartenders there. Kyla used to be a bartender at TGI Fridays in Edmond, so she knows tons of drinks and can recommend good ones. Its so fun.
*Oh, side note...crazy thing that happened to me that day: my bus got into an accident on the way to TLC. I was looking down at the time, so I didn't see how it happened, but one second we are going along and the next we're all getting thrown forward. Not anything serious, just one of those serious break slamming kind of accidents...but he still hit the car in front. I think it tried to cut in front of the bus and the driver didn't see it. It was a smaller car, and the way we hit it was right in the middle of the passenger side. Crazy Korean drivers...
Anyway, usually the bar is pretty slow on Wednesdays, there are always a few people besides us there, but not many.
Not this Wednesday.
The place was deserted. Kyla and I were the only customers until about 9:45 or 10. There was one older guy that stole Billy away from us and talked to him for like, 30 mins while Kyla and I just watched and tried to think of a way to get him back. A couple times Billy came over to where we were to get the guy a drink refill and was mouthing something, but we didn't know what. It kind of looked like "help help help..."
But hey, gotta keep the customers happy. I thought that the guy was a little weird cause he was high-fiving Billy and then lacing his fingers with Billy's...if I didn't know about the Korean guy skinship culture over here, I seriously would have thought he was gay. But I think he was just really tipsy.
Lol..then, the "Billy Thief" asks for paper and finally lets Billy go. I was still watching him because he was entertaining. He would write something...look up...smile, bite his lip and then write something again. Then it would repeat. He did that like, 7 times. I was trying so hard not to stare and laugh...he looked absolutely ridiculous....like a middle school girl writing in her diary about a boy she likes. Kyla and I were trying to figure out what he was doing, but we weren't sure. We thought maybe he was writing a poem, or a love note to Billy...haha, we hoped it wasn't the latter.
Billy told us a little bit later that the guy was writing down a song list and they were gonna play the songs he wrote down.
LOL...
Maybe one of the most entertaining things I've seen so far is a slightly intoxicated, middle aged, kind of nerdy Korean guy listening to his favorite songs. This guy was singing along, bobbing his head, kind of dancing in his chair...everything. He looked over at Kyla and I and was like "good song! good song! You like? You like song?" and gave a thumbs up. We were like, "Uh..yeah! good song!" and gave a thumbs up back. Haha...he made my evening. Except for when he would steal Billy...that was annoying.
So I think I should go ahead and give you a list of the people that work at TLC:
Billy--> The Cutie
Autumn-->The Awesome One (She makes the best drinks. She always gives me and Kyla doubles...)
Don--> The Magician and Darts Champion (I have never seen such amazing magic tricks ever. I am totally serious!!!)
Jerry--> The Fire Shot Master
Eddie-->The Boss (He's the owner of TLC)
And two other people work there but I don't know their names. One is a manager and the other is a quite girl that doesn't speak English, so she never talks to us.
Anyway, I think that you could make a TV show with the characters that work at this bar. They are really fun people and the atmosphere is really great. They all have good people skills and know how to keep their customers happy and entertained. And, from what I've seen, they all have a good work ethic and get along well. So there is no tension behind the bar.
So, you can order this drink called a "fire shot". I had never heard of it before, but Autumn makes it and Jerry lights it. Its so awesome! They stack up a bunch of glasses on top of each other, with paper towels over them, and then the shot is on top. When its lit, the fire runs down the sides of the glasses (cause they make the shot overflow a bit so there is alcohol on the glasses) and they attach a small sparkler to the side which lights up as well. It's awesome! Most of the time, its like a show. They turn off the lights, and Jerry pours some alcohol into his mouth and on two of his fingers, then he puts it into the flames of the shot and shoots fire out of his mouth. It's amazing. I will have to video it sometime and post it. But poor Jerry, last Saturday (we went again on Saturday because Laura wanted to go and we thought Billy wouldn't be working the next Wednesday) we were sitting over by where they have the ice, and after the fire shot, Jerry was over there putting ice in his mouth and miming "hot! hot! my mouth is so hot!" haha...poor guy! But he does it almost every time...guess he just puts up with the pain. That is dedication right there.
Anyway, it is again Wednesday, and Kyla and I are going to be going the bar this evening. Maybe something funny will happen tonight and I will have another Wacky Wednesday story. :)
Right now it is rainy and humid on this side of the world. How's the weather over there?
Laters!
~TWGA
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