Passive Aggressive Meetings

Today was my first general meeting at YBM. It wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be. To my knowledge I was only talked about in passing with the comment of, "How do you get kids to listen to you like in P.E. or homeroom." P.E. is obviously me. After that who knows thus why passive aggressive doesn't really work in a business setting. John was called out quite a bit though. He's been here a month longer then me. I wonder if she doesn't totally bitch me out because she thinks I'll tell my Uncle and he'll chew her out like he did Paul. Ah that still makes me laugh. Poor Paul.

Speaking of Paul, the assistant manager that really does all the crap work at the school, I am his new 1 on 1 adult conversation teacher. I don't know if I'm doing a good job at it but he seems to be doing alright. He knows very little English and it's funny some of the questions he asks me.

"Is surprisingly same as surprise!" With matching hand gestures. "No" I tell him and then went on to try and explain what surprisingly means. You try it. It's hard!

Tomorrow my school is celebrating the Korean version of Thanksgiving called Chusoek (which actually doesn't occur until Sunday). It's pretty much just saying thanks for a good year of harvesting crops. All of Korea travels to their parents house on this day. Literally. A trip that would take you an hour to make any other day would take you at least 3 if your lucky traffic is that bad. Traffic really is something here in Korea. Maybe for a later post.

I got another gift set today. They are all the rage here. I'm going to assume it was the Chusoek Festival gift or something.

I'm so excited that the end of Friday marks the start of my 4 day weekend. Sad that it's only my second week and I'm already excited to be away from the place for 4 glorious days. But I'll take it! I want to go to Dongdaemun Market or maybe I'll go back to COEX Mall.

To Kim: I just saw the comment on who the "butt" was in my room. That would be my cousin Jun Gu. His picture is a couple after the butt.