Korean Thanksgiving

Last week was Chuseok, Korean Thanksgiving. I had Tuesday - Friday (21st-24th) off work. I didn't do much. I went to Seoul a couple days. Wednesday there was heavy rain that shut down some subway stops, or maybe whole subway lines, in Seoul. The rain combined with a reduced number of trains going from my city to Seoul (which I didn't know about till I was waiting at the station) made my 1 hour trip take over 2 hours. That was about the most exciting thing that happened that week. The days I didn't go to Seoul I stayed home and played computer games and watched tv.

this semester

Wednesday was my birthday. I went out with some co-workers for dinner. Each year I feel worse about getting older.

This semester I am busier that last semester. I teach 20 classes per week. They can give me up to 22 classes per week. Last semester I was scheduled for 19, but I only had 14 real classes. Four of those classes were classes for the teachers who wanted to take them, but only about 6 teachers wanted to go to the class, and only two of those scheduled classes had teachers showing up regularly. One of my classes was just a weekly meeting with the English teachers if they wanted to talk to me about something. Usually I only talked with one guy about lesson plans for 10-20 minutes.

So I had a lot of free time to sit at my desk and do what I wanted. It was nice. The only good thing about teaching more classes is the days go by faster.