Domestic Activities
Not much news today. The booklet for the English Camp is finally done. My co-teacher, Gyong Jin added some Korean instructions to it and we're good to go on Monday.
I've been practicing a couple of songs on the guitar and will make my debut on Monday doing, "You Are My Sunshine", then sometime during the week I'll do "Amazing Grace" and maybe something else. I hope the kids have fun and learn a lot! I've packed it with nouns, pronouns, homonyms, verbs, frequently misused words, poems, stories, and various activities to keep them busy. Next week we'll polish things up and by the fourth week it'll be a "walk in the cake" as a friend of mine once said. I there's some slack time in the schedule maybe I'll do something to help the kids write letters, and then present them with the opportunity to have penpals in Canada. Hmmmm.
And if things are getting so quiet that "you can hear a pin on the floor" and I find myself running out of normal stuff I can always wow them with some "Paulisms".
After finishing the booklet, I went to the post office and mailed a few postcards. Then it was off to bank to open an account; all the teachers at the school do their banking there. I'll have internet access, but no ATM card. So, I actually have to find the bank again to be able to take money out. Could be a while.
We get paid on December 25, possibly on the 24th and the money may be direct deposited into my account.
Then, I went to a whole sale market and bought a few things, like a new toilet seat, some tomato sauce, some yogourt, and some garbage bags. Still haven't really found out where the garbage is supposed to go and when. They have different coloured garbage bags for different things. Everyone told me to get the pink ones.
Now for the domestic stuff! Tonight I really went all out. I washed the bathroom. It's done a little differently here...there's a drain in the floor of the bathroom, so I removed everything off the floor and the counter, washed it all down with a cleaner I bought, and then just sprayed everything with the shower nozzle. Handy!
While I was washing the bathroom I had the rice cooker going. Just for a change of pace I decided to leave the plastic wrap out. You would think that would be enough, but no. While all that was happening I also had started a wash. It had been a couple of days since someone told me how to use it and I didn't write anything down. But, miracle of miracles I did it. I was wondering where I was going to put all my clothes to dry, but last night I found that out. One of the ladies who came over to finish the molding in the living room opened the doors in my living room and I saw that it was a porch, sealed off from the outside by a hard plastic and there is a rack hanging from the ceiling with hangers on it. Ah Ha!
It all came together. The rice was good. The wash was clean and put out to dry and the bathroom was clean.
Tomorrow, I find out how to use internet banking here. The only thing I'll use it for though is to check on my account. At some point I may get an ATM card for convenience.
The one problem with these PC Bangs is that everyone smokes and it's hurting my eyes. My hour is almost up anyway. G'night Canada.
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