ahhh shiver

I learned in my first month as a teacher in Korea that the word "shiver" is Korean for sh*t. It came up in the predictably entertaining situation in which newbie Julia Teacher tried to teach "to shiver" as a spelling word. Needless to say that got many laughs from the kids who were all much too eager to repeat the spelling words that week.

Well a long time seems to have passed since then. I have just come from my worst class of the week. Thankfully it is only once a week. It's three hours with 5 thirteen year old tyrants. I don't know how they do it but they manage to maintain a constant muttering of ahh...shiver....ahhh...shiver for three solid hours! Seriously why don't they get tired? Oh and they were none to pleased to discover I was completely ignorant of Pepero Day (Pepero is a chocolate covered stick shaped cookie. 11/11 apparently looks like Peperos and that's a good enough reason to make it a day) Well I didn't know about it so I didn't buy any. It's a side effect of being the only teacher at school. Ahh shiver is right.

In brighter news I got paid today and only a day late.