Just finished first two classes for the morning and have a nice long lunch break of 3 hours so decided to pop home for food.
Anyway before i left school i discovered a little schedule about a Field Trip on Wednesday 5th April!
Cool eh! but it appears that it may not be!
The basis of the trip is to take approx 100 Kindergarten students to a farm and help them plant lettuce!! seriously!! lettuce!
Oh and also it will be recorded on Video. I have to take part with my classes (cherry and rainbow) so i have to plant lettuce twice! and on camera.
I am going to take my camera because no doubt the kids will make it such a laugh. They will be over excited, naughty and loud... just like usual. ha ha
Just hope they don't tread in crap or anything cause i will not be cleaning the bottom of their shoes. Mind you so far my stomach has dealt quite well with the weekly nose bleeds, sneezes that are not just a sneeze but a stream of snot covering their faces and daily head,knee and arm injuries from them hitting eachother! or running into doors! yes they are all crazy kids!
Anyway, tonight i am off out to Bennigans, an american diner! its brent and trishas leaving meal. Trish is back off to australia for a few months then comming back to work in another school. Brent is gooing travelling for a few months and them also comming back to seoul.
Friday is session vacation so i get the day off and a nice three day weekend. I will be going to visit a prison. Its a cultural thing okay! It was in the lonely planet book so instead of visiting bars we will be infact going behind bars! I know that wasn't funny was it.
Saturday is Tiesto and for those of you who don't know who he is well he is way famous!! more than Pete Tong! ha ha
Must go
Love to all
Leanne
About Me
- Leanne
- I am 26 and from Northamptonshire ( Rose of the Shires) Attended Liverpool John Moores University which was the most amazing experience and made some fab friends. Graduated in 2002 with a drinkers degree (2:2) in Media Cultural Studies. Moved home about 10 months ago and am now preparing to leave again to do the extreme! and teach english to Korean Children.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Happy Anniversary To Me
Today is sunday 27th March and i officially left England one month ago and can't belive how quick it has gone.
This weekend has been fairly quiet as next saturday me Erin and Ariel will be going to Sheraton Hotel to see Tiesto, this will be an expensive night but can't wait!! This is the flyer for it.
I am even more settled now, had a manicure the other day and have joined the local dvd club. It costs 1000won to rent a dvd thats about 50p. So far have watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Family Stone and Guess Who. Today i aim to join the gym on my complex, it only costs 10,000 won a month think thats about £6. So will definatley take advantage of that.
Today i aim to get dressed and take the rubbish down. This is in fact a pure mission. My rubbish has to be sorted in to the following:
Paper
Cardboard
Food Waste
Glass
Plastic
Your food waste also has to go in special plastic bags. If you don't sort out your stuff then you get shouted out apparently. This happened to Ariel.
Also i have the funniest thing in my flat. Its a tannoy. At random times of the day and night you hear this Korean man talking. God knows what he is saying but its so bizzare. They have them in all the apartments!! Its just wrong!!! This is a picture of it!
Anyway keep the comments coming.
This weekend has been fairly quiet as next saturday me Erin and Ariel will be going to Sheraton Hotel to see Tiesto, this will be an expensive night but can't wait!! This is the flyer for it.
I am even more settled now, had a manicure the other day and have joined the local dvd club. It costs 1000won to rent a dvd thats about 50p. So far have watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Family Stone and Guess Who. Today i aim to join the gym on my complex, it only costs 10,000 won a month think thats about £6. So will definatley take advantage of that.
Today i aim to get dressed and take the rubbish down. This is in fact a pure mission. My rubbish has to be sorted in to the following:
Paper
Cardboard
Food Waste
Glass
Plastic
Your food waste also has to go in special plastic bags. If you don't sort out your stuff then you get shouted out apparently. This happened to Ariel.
Also i have the funniest thing in my flat. Its a tannoy. At random times of the day and night you hear this Korean man talking. God knows what he is saying but its so bizzare. They have them in all the apartments!! Its just wrong!!! This is a picture of it!
Anyway keep the comments coming.
Friday, March 17, 2006
More Photos
Well i know your probably more interested in photos than me rambling on like a gabbie annie so i have attached some i think you may like.
This is the view from my apartment. Me and Ariel are in the penthouse!! well not exactly a penthouse but it is on the top floor.!!
This is my school, where i teach! yes i actually teach these poor babies!! Oh they found it hilarious today when i taught them see you later alligator, in a while crocodile! their parents must be devastated that this is what they a learning! oh and they know the phrase "crack on" basically kids get your books and work, and sit down oh and Zip it, i make the zip up the mouth motion! they are getting cheeky now cause they do the un zip motion and laugh at me!!
Now for some of the kids! the first couple are of them in their science lesson! look what they made! they are cotton reel things that go round! thats as scientific as i get!
This is me and Mike, he is a cling on. He loves Leanne Teacher! don't know why, i am forever telling him to sit on his chair, pick his crayons up, get his correct books out and to stop annoying the girls!
The Boys! this is Cherry Gang, left to right Neill, Nathan and Steven. Steven is always in tears, yesterday he ran into the door frame and had to come to the teachers office, bless he was sobbing his heart out! don't know what he had been doing as it was arts and crafts class with Ariel my flat mate! she was laughing! so was i though! Today Steven got exited doing the song "Head Shoulders Knees and Toes song and smashed his face on the chair! bless him, i scooped him in my arms from the floor and wiped his face, gave hima drink of water and he was fine! mother teresa eh!!
Who is the best team in the world????? yes the kids know its Everton! Balgan Dung means red shite (Liverpool FC) in Korean! ha ha
Stevie and Neill getting excitable for the camera!!
This is my mate molly, we met in Route 66, she is a backpacker originally from Boston and has been in New Zealand etc since she left uni! she got to seoul a week after me and is comming round tomorrow for a few bevvies and some dinner with me and ariel. Oh we got bought a rose, we took the head off it and shared it! yes we were drunk!
Love and Kisses
Lea
xx
This is the view from my apartment. Me and Ariel are in the penthouse!! well not exactly a penthouse but it is on the top floor.!!
This is my school, where i teach! yes i actually teach these poor babies!! Oh they found it hilarious today when i taught them see you later alligator, in a while crocodile! their parents must be devastated that this is what they a learning! oh and they know the phrase "crack on" basically kids get your books and work, and sit down oh and Zip it, i make the zip up the mouth motion! they are getting cheeky now cause they do the un zip motion and laugh at me!!
Now for some of the kids! the first couple are of them in their science lesson! look what they made! they are cotton reel things that go round! thats as scientific as i get!
This is me and Mike, he is a cling on. He loves Leanne Teacher! don't know why, i am forever telling him to sit on his chair, pick his crayons up, get his correct books out and to stop annoying the girls!
The Boys! this is Cherry Gang, left to right Neill, Nathan and Steven. Steven is always in tears, yesterday he ran into the door frame and had to come to the teachers office, bless he was sobbing his heart out! don't know what he had been doing as it was arts and crafts class with Ariel my flat mate! she was laughing! so was i though! Today Steven got exited doing the song "Head Shoulders Knees and Toes song and smashed his face on the chair! bless him, i scooped him in my arms from the floor and wiped his face, gave hima drink of water and he was fine! mother teresa eh!!
Who is the best team in the world????? yes the kids know its Everton! Balgan Dung means red shite (Liverpool FC) in Korean! ha ha
Stevie and Neill getting excitable for the camera!!
This is my mate molly, we met in Route 66, she is a backpacker originally from Boston and has been in New Zealand etc since she left uni! she got to seoul a week after me and is comming round tomorrow for a few bevvies and some dinner with me and ariel. Oh we got bought a rose, we took the head off it and shared it! yes we were drunk!
Love and Kisses
Lea
xx
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Portrait!
Cherry Class had a speech lesson yesterday and they had to draw the person sitting next to them and write on the worksheet. This was a 40 minute lesson and at the end i was presented with this picture. ha ha
Pretty acurate really, with my yellow and brown hair, and my green eyes!! i asked chris if teacher was angry in the picture, he said no! i presume i look quite scary to them in general then!!!
Pretty acurate really, with my yellow and brown hair, and my green eyes!! i asked chris if teacher was angry in the picture, he said no! i presume i look quite scary to them in general then!!!
Monday, March 13, 2006
Korea Folder
When speaking to other English teachers at work it becomes aparent that seoul is not just lovely city but its pretty damn crazy.
Daily we chat about the differences in Korea compared to our home cities. Concidering i work with Americans, Canadians and Australians we all seem to have the same views on the goings on here and the phrase "put it in the korea folder" is a genrously used.
Here are a few things from the Korea folder you might like to know!
1: Koreans drive like mad people! trying to cross a road becomes a matter of life or death. the roads are not two lanes, theyare like motorways. Zebra crossings do not work and even when the green man is flashing don't think its safe.
2: People drive scooters, but the drive them on the road and on the path! yes paths aren't even safe!
3: Cheese is not available, only that processed crap in clear plastic! i payed £6 for a little block of cheddar at the imported food store!
4: It is seen as rude to blow your nose in the company of others! but men consistently spit on the street! nice. and i mean proper man spits, even the kids do it. Its just wrong!
5: When kids lose their baby teeth the dentist replaces them with silver metal ones, currently a third of the kids in Rainbow and Cherry class look like that guy from James Bond!
6: The food is way spicy! walking from class to class the other day one of the students handed me a cracker! i ate it as i was starving and my eyes started streaming, thanks for the chilli flavour cracker! thats the last time i eat something a student gives me!
7: When out in bars they have not heard of measures! obviously not a bad thing at the time but in the morning a different story when my head is banging!
So far i think thats it!! will just leave you with a photo of a bar in Hongdae! highly amusing name!!
Daily we chat about the differences in Korea compared to our home cities. Concidering i work with Americans, Canadians and Australians we all seem to have the same views on the goings on here and the phrase "put it in the korea folder" is a genrously used.
Here are a few things from the Korea folder you might like to know!
1: Koreans drive like mad people! trying to cross a road becomes a matter of life or death. the roads are not two lanes, theyare like motorways. Zebra crossings do not work and even when the green man is flashing don't think its safe.
2: People drive scooters, but the drive them on the road and on the path! yes paths aren't even safe!
3: Cheese is not available, only that processed crap in clear plastic! i payed £6 for a little block of cheddar at the imported food store!
4: It is seen as rude to blow your nose in the company of others! but men consistently spit on the street! nice. and i mean proper man spits, even the kids do it. Its just wrong!
5: When kids lose their baby teeth the dentist replaces them with silver metal ones, currently a third of the kids in Rainbow and Cherry class look like that guy from James Bond!
6: The food is way spicy! walking from class to class the other day one of the students handed me a cracker! i ate it as i was starving and my eyes started streaming, thanks for the chilli flavour cracker! thats the last time i eat something a student gives me!
7: When out in bars they have not heard of measures! obviously not a bad thing at the time but in the morning a different story when my head is banging!
So far i think thats it!! will just leave you with a photo of a bar in Hongdae! highly amusing name!!
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Settled in!
Just sitting in my room, on the internet, on my laptop! yes i am finally sorted.
Unfortunatley due to me being rubbish with computers i could not figure out how to do the internet so andy sorted it for me. Nice one.
So i am currently sitting at my desk listening to the Chris Moyles radio show. Tomorrow if i am on-line at aroung 5:00pm i can listen live! I have cable Tv in my room but out of the 100 channels i get i can only watch channel 29 (style channel)shows friends, sex in the city and what not to wear, oh and some cool films) then there is AFN (american forces network) channel 40. This is just tripe. oh but they do show the Jay Leno Show which i have become a fan of!
Today is sunday, its around 4:00pm and i have been up a couple of hours. The reason is i went out with ariel last night to Hongdae, cool area about an hour on the tube away. Went to Route 66 and the Tin Pan, both foreigner pubs. mostly full of yanks. hardly any brits out here!
Yesterday i went to the olympic park, on my own! yes i braved the tube and thought i would go and check it out. here are some pics.
Considering the park is only 3 tube stops away it is so nice to see such an open place, with grass and lots of trees, sounds stupid but when you have to constantly dodge people in the street and get pushed and shoved on the tube, walking around a park is just brilliant.
Unfortunatley due to me being rubbish with computers i could not figure out how to do the internet so andy sorted it for me. Nice one.
So i am currently sitting at my desk listening to the Chris Moyles radio show. Tomorrow if i am on-line at aroung 5:00pm i can listen live! I have cable Tv in my room but out of the 100 channels i get i can only watch channel 29 (style channel)shows friends, sex in the city and what not to wear, oh and some cool films) then there is AFN (american forces network) channel 40. This is just tripe. oh but they do show the Jay Leno Show which i have become a fan of!
Today is sunday, its around 4:00pm and i have been up a couple of hours. The reason is i went out with ariel last night to Hongdae, cool area about an hour on the tube away. Went to Route 66 and the Tin Pan, both foreigner pubs. mostly full of yanks. hardly any brits out here!
Yesterday i went to the olympic park, on my own! yes i braved the tube and thought i would go and check it out. here are some pics.
Considering the park is only 3 tube stops away it is so nice to see such an open place, with grass and lots of trees, sounds stupid but when you have to constantly dodge people in the street and get pushed and shoved on the tube, walking around a park is just brilliant.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Ahn-nyung-ha-seh-yo (hello)
well i am here and have lots of photos for you.....although i still can't work out how to put them in order! sorry.... Enjoy xx
This is me and Ariel my room-mate, she is from Washington DC. We were a bit merry in a Hip Hop club in Sinchon.
Ariel and Stevie - we went to a private Kareoke room! very amusing! plus i broke the tamborine they supplied us with!
After a hard night of partying we went to the local takeaway! was scrummy!
Picture of the Sinchon area. lights, lights everywhere!
My food on the airline (Bibinbap) quite tasty but wierd!
Me and Erin, went out for a meal and they gave us these dreadful pinis to wear! they were dirty too. Didn't want to offend so put mine on!! wouldn't do that back home!
Itaewan: American/English/Canadian area of seoul. Had a few bevies in Geckos, nice pub.
Photo when i arrived in Seoul, usual crap traffic/building scenery! but interesting eh
Cherry Class (my little cherubs)
Brendan and Holly - check out his hand! he has a crush on her - how sweet !
Neil and Hannah - Hannah is my star pupil - she brings me cookies so i give her gold stars on her work! wish the other kids would realise that treats for Leanne Teacher means rewards!
Jenna: lovely girl but very naughty. Her partner in crime is Lilly standing by her (one with the pig tails) right little pair them two!
Jeff - yes he sleeps alot! it was quite unusual to have him sitting up sleeping as usually in my class he lies across two chairs! how rude! mMust be my voice sending him to sleep! that or my lessons are crap!
Rainbow Class (so cute)
This is me and Ariel my room-mate, she is from Washington DC. We were a bit merry in a Hip Hop club in Sinchon.
Ariel and Stevie - we went to a private Kareoke room! very amusing! plus i broke the tamborine they supplied us with!
After a hard night of partying we went to the local takeaway! was scrummy!
Picture of the Sinchon area. lights, lights everywhere!
My food on the airline (Bibinbap) quite tasty but wierd!
Me and Erin, went out for a meal and they gave us these dreadful pinis to wear! they were dirty too. Didn't want to offend so put mine on!! wouldn't do that back home!
Itaewan: American/English/Canadian area of seoul. Had a few bevies in Geckos, nice pub.
Photo when i arrived in Seoul, usual crap traffic/building scenery! but interesting eh
Cherry Class (my little cherubs)
Brendan and Holly - check out his hand! he has a crush on her - how sweet !
Neil and Hannah - Hannah is my star pupil - she brings me cookies so i give her gold stars on her work! wish the other kids would realise that treats for Leanne Teacher means rewards!
Jenna: lovely girl but very naughty. Her partner in crime is Lilly standing by her (one with the pig tails) right little pair them two!
Jeff - yes he sleeps alot! it was quite unusual to have him sitting up sleeping as usually in my class he lies across two chairs! how rude! mMust be my voice sending him to sleep! that or my lessons are crap!
Rainbow Class (so cute)
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