Finished my first week

I finished my first week of teaching, if anyone has ever seen the movie "school of Rock" with Jack Black the part where he finishes his first day of teaching the bell rings, he jumps up runs up and down the aisles between the kids giving them high fives and yelling "yeah we made it, whooo," "i'll see you cats on the flip flop," then sprints out of there. Yeah that was me on friday I was pretty much pushing kids out of the way to get to the door.

No it really did go smooth for the first week, except when I called a kid named steve "steve-o" he got mad and started crying, I said I was sorry but now that I think about it you know what i'm not sorry STEV-O! Ha Take that.

After relaxing on friday night a friend and I went to Seoul to hit some bars and stop in to look at the shopping district, this was the original plan. What actually happened was we went to the casino, the guy I was with got really drunk and we ended up staying for eight hours. It reminded me of being at Greektown in Detroit with a certain "someone" (you know who you are). But this time I couldn't threaten that I was going to leave them there because I didn't know how to get home. "Son of a bitch" I was mumbling to myslef I come halfway around the world to be stuck in a casino watching someone else play, so I tried to make the best of it and had a decent time.

Anyway Since I am a teacher I feel like I should end this blog with a lesson, so here it is.

LESSON 1

Don't ever jump the subway gate without a ticket. I didn't know this but in Korea this is how the subway works, you buy your ticket stick it in the machine and I thought that was it. NO when your done on the subway to get out of there you have to again stick your origional ticket in machine, well I didn't know this and I left my ticket at the entrance after it was scanned. So the person I was with says "just jump over it" I'm like "no way i'm not breaking the law". He then explains how long it would take to go back and get a new one, so I said fine and I jump over the gate. As soon asI did he goes "whoa," and i'm like "what". He goes "I didn't think you were actually gonna do it," "But you told me to," I said, he goes " I wasen't serious, it looks really strange when someone does that and your a foreigner so it looks twice as bad." "Thanks" I said as we ran out of the subway with people staring at me giving me the look like "you make me sick you stupid foreigner".

That's all for now, "I'll see you on the flip flop."