I have just signed up for a 10km race! Goodness gracious! And got my teacher to help me plan a 20 day running programme to get me in shape. He is a really good marathon runner, so lets hope I can do it! Here is the website of the race:
I am not completed surprised by my irrational decision-considering the week I have been having!
Last week Thursday, my one boy in grade 5 managed to fall in one of my running games during a lesson, which resulted in a broken arm! It was rather awful! I just froze too! Didn't exactly know what to do...
Then, I managed to land myself on the front page of the "Soyang Special"-the new English paper of my Boys Middle School, along with a simple interview about South Africa. The days of Girls' High school newspaper springs to mind-except now I am that silly teacher posing awkwardly and saying ridiculously mature things! How did I grow up so fast?
Mime festival was next on the list of "off my rocker" as we stayed up both Friday and Saturday evening until 4am watching crazy cool shows, admiring enthralling mimes, listening to Spunky SKA bands playing, being bedazzled by the entertaining outfit changing Magician, dancing to trance music, eating melon ice-creams, roaring with laughter at a rather plump (to say the least) Japanese woman doing the full monty and much more! Good fun was had by all!
Sunday was spent at Nami Island-a little break-away paradise just outside from Chuncheon! It is a 6km circumference island near Gapyeong. There are beautiful gardens, cool random art pieces and much more-including a little train like the one I used to ride when I was a kid at Scottborough! Apparently the whole of Chuncheon thought it would be a good idea to go too, as the place was packed!I could have quite honestly spent the entire day there reading a book under a tree, but unfortunately another week at school was calling! A re-visit is in order!
I also ordered a whole lot of meat from the BILTONG GUYS ( South African boys who have capitalized on the lack of good SA meat here in Korea and are now selling as their name suggests BILTONG and other meat) for the Nanji Pre-World Cup Braai that is happening in Seoul this weekend! I still cannot believe I paid R120 for 250g of biltong! It better be damn good!
I manged on Monday to convince my teacher that a tournament soccer match should be played during my English lessons so that the boys get a true feel for the World Cup! I am so in the FIFA fever I have decided to dedicate 3 weeks of lessons to it! WHOOP WHOOP! I am going to love it and I'm sure kicking a ball around will be more than fine for the boys instead of a proper English class for a day!
And then last night in my mission mode to get fit, I ran out of my very cool apartment and as my hectic techno door closed behind me with a beeping noise- I realised I had locked my keys inside! Unfortunately, they have not yet made doors that remind owners to bring their very much needed keys along! Just as well, Christine my co-teacher had a spare one. So, an hour of car watching later, a melon ice-cream and a drink later, I was able to disengage my security- protected-cool-gizmo- way-too-techno door latch thing!
OH and as if that isn't enough, I get told today at school, my lesson will be filmed! EEK! I seemed ok with it, but my kids for some reason swallowed their voices as soon as they saw the cameras. So the lesson was spent painstakingly trying to get any kind of response from them.
oh well,I now am off to finish off more admin-banking,posting letters and having my haircut! Lets hope that turns out better than my week!
BISOUS
JO!
Sounds like such an awesome time Jo!! Ah! You're gonna be fab at the race man! My digsmate and I are doing the Women's Health 10 minute work-out each morning. We get all kitted out in the living room and do our cardio workout, much to the amusement of Scotty our other digsmate!
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