"Chris Brown!"

So, I've come to the realization that students here like me (well, some of them do, anyways) not because I'm a good teacher (the jury's still deliberating my teaching ability) but because we like the same things.

I realized this after having spent the past two weeks hearing a group of 3-4 boys (who I don't even teach) start singing Chris Brown songs everytime they saw me in the hallways. Finally, one of them explained to me that they heard that I like Chris Brown. How they heard it, I don't know ... but whatever. So, anyways, I saw this group of boys tonight ... I was on my way to exercise, so I had my iPod on and everything, and the "leader" (a.k.a. the tallest and the loudest) asked me what I was listening to. When I responded, he began to enthusiastically ask me about the album and the song and other songs by that artist and so on and so forth ...

Continuing with the music theme - last week, I had my laptop in class so that students could research for their speeches, and a bunch of the boys decided to browse through my iTunes. I think I definitely earned cool points - at least with one of my classes. "Teacher, you like hip-hop? Teacher, you like Ludacris? I like Ludacris! Teacher, you like Twista? I like Twista! Teacher, you have ..." And then there's 2-4 who skipped all the hip-hop and went straight for the rock.

Couple that with the fact that I have a handful of girls who like to run up and hug me in the hallway ... yeap.

I'm doing alright here. :)

Today was Friday, which meant I didn't work. After lunch, I was walking through the hallways, and I heard guitar music and singing coming from an empty classroom. It sounded ... Bucket-esque. The only problem? I was too short to look in the window to see what was really going on, and too scared to open the door. Luckily for me, another teacher was passing by in the hallway at that moment and explained to me that it was a church group. She then proceeded to tell me that I should go in, led me in, and introduced me to the group. It was being led by one of my favorite teachers - I think he's a biology teacher, 유주현. He was playing guitar and singing, and asked me to come again next week. I guess they meet every weekday during lunch time. I'm pretty stoked about that.

I went on an adventure into Tongjin today to go to the post office. Then I bought some AMAZING apples ... AND managed to get a library card at the public library! I gave up before finding English books, but I was told that they DO have a selection. So I will go back at some point to try to find them.

And that's all I've got. Back to watching MacGyver. :) I've recently decided that MacGyver is the perfect man. He's pretty much amazing.