There'll be days like this

I decided today that the students' behavior has very little to do with me and very much to do with whatever is going on in their lives. Sadly, I cannot communicate very well with them to find out specifics.
Last week when they listened to me - something must have happened that caused them to behave. This week so far they've been fighting with each other, acting like they're high on sugar, and not interested in listening to me for very long at all. I try to tailor their tangents into the lesson - or provide the English for what it is they're doing. That's the best I can do right now.

I should (and shouldn't) say that the classes I am talking about - where the kids are bad - are the classes that I teach alone. It's just me, the foreigner, and them the Korean students. Would you blame them for tuning out that crazy white girl who makes very little sense? (and yeah, i use small words, simple present tense verbs and a handful of Korean with them) I do have classes with a co-teacher 2 days a week. Those days are my sanity savers so far. The students behave well for him.
(when i say i shouldn't say - i mean... i'm not sure how much i should talk about the things that happen that fall outside of what my contract says. here's the reality - we have contracts and schools should stick to them. however, quite often they add to or somehow change your duties or fudge here and there to get what they want or need (and suit the school's situation). the school and its schedule &etc are more important than you and yours, basically. you just have to live with it, and not complain. and please don't think i'm complaining. out of all the possible things that could be imposed on me - so far - things have been fine. my co workers seem to like me, and the principal and vice principal seem to be fair and generous. this is a wondrous thing. i've heard of people with mean or scheming or corrupt superiors, so i'll take kindness over ill usage.
also, don't get me wrong. the contract isn't useless. it protects me from being worked overtime without receiving overtime pay, and a few other things. if i can't accept something that's outside of the contract, i can contest it and make people hate me, but not get as ripped off as i could have been. follow?)

But I'm home, and I just cooked myself some garlic, onion, basil chicken with potatoes and carrots. I wasn't sure how fried carrot slices would be, but they're very good. At least I like them. I used some of the spices my mom mailed to me. I was so happy getting them (and an easter present!) in the mail. The mailman leaves packages outside the door if you're not home. This is nice - because the post office is downtown and that's a 15 minute walk minimum. Did I mention Korea has extra virgin olive oil? Yes. :D I can continue to eat the Italianesque food I'm accustomed to eating. <3

The pictures I'm uploading are taking forever even though I'm only uploading a few. Annoying.

Let's see... yesterday I went out to dinner with Jongsoo. We got jjajjangmyeon and fried pork. Lol. Yummy. And then we got coffee at this little cafe. So good.
Today I went to Gateau Juni with Tian (my girl friend who is also an English teacher). We drank coffee and lesson planned. Well, I kind of just chatted. I half finished my lesson plan at school today. I need to make a powerpoint, but I'm procrastinating.

I caught another cold I think. My nose started dripping this afternoon. So annoying.

As for the situation with our neighbors to the north - I honestly have no real idea what is going on. No one I know is talking about it. My coworkers have not mentioned it to me. I have no idea really. But it does not appear as if people are worrying.

The internet is being a pain, so I'll end here and not put up the images.