The uses of PRESTIK!

In Grade 5, I was asked by Mrs Harris in English class to give an unprepared speech on "the uses of Prestik". I was stunned and all I could think of, for a "use of Prestik"was to stick my cool posters of Spice Girls up on my wall. I ooed and ahhed outside for my 5 minutes of preparation and sheepishly came into the class again to present this awful topic. I thought-well, I'll just give them a dashing smile at the end and all will be fine. Unfortunately, my 30second presentation did not suffice and evidently the smile was full of cheese, as she was rather unimpressed at my efforts.

But now-oh-now! Give me that topic again Mrs Harris-I'll show you! Haha. I think the life of a teacher and prestik are inextricably linked. However, I never realised as much until I came to Korea. The reason being that Korea does not really use prestik or Blu tac as it is called here. Nice magnetic things, cellotape and thumbtacs are sticky goodies of choice. I actually thought they did not have it fullstop. But my lovely friend JO Weakley showed it to me in the GS-Mart and I grabbed it with glee. R45 later and prestik with each strip in a different colour- I was thrilled!! It clearly has been useful as I have managed to use it up entirely this week.

Posters around the class, making eyes for monsters, sticking flashcards on the board, securing a leak in my basin, holding together notes of my Korean and much more!

YAY!!! The small man-made joys in life!

This weekend I am off to Mudfest! I cannot wait-I have no idea what to expect other than being covered in mud. I have bought 2 cheap t-shirts down at Myeong-dong so that I can throw them out if needs be after the weekend!

Here's to getting MUDDY!!!

Bisous

JO