cockroaches

So I am stuck awake in my apt with a little cockroach nowhere to be found. I was sitting on my sofa watching a little CSI after a long day of work... I look to my left and right under my drying rack where my laundry is handing is a little cockroach. Of course I freak, but don't really make a sound... don't want to scare the bug, unless I scare it to death that is.... I just want it dead. I try to get close, but get the willies, so grab for my phone and as I talk to my co-worker Rick, the bug takes off and I am left to find it. Rick tells me they are harmless and he will come to my rescue if I find it, but only then. I moved all sorts of furniture around, and no sign. I am stuck awake worried about this blasted bug. I hope he doesn't descide that a slumber party would be a great idea... I swear... if I find one in my bed, or a family of them in my apt, I am moving back to Canada.

So on the rest of my life that I wanted to update on. I went to the International Pusan Film Festival a while back. Ever since I heard about it I wanted to go. It was a driving factor on getting to me to move to Pusan (Busan) in the first place. A co-worker and I pick out a bunch of films and settle on four which titles sound appealing and the couple sentences described on the website spark our interest.
The first one we saw... I really don't know how I sat through the film, and I wish I could have those two hours back. It was the worst movie I ever saw, and strangest as well.. and not even cool artsy strange. I heard nothing but rave reviews about this festival, and I wish I would have picked my films more carefully... so many of my friends had great eexperiences with the festival. Another film we wanted to see was sold out, then another we accidently went to the wrong theater across town and didn't realize in time... then the last one we went to ended up being a bunch of little films put togother. Some we interesting in their own strange way, most were pretty ummm. bad. The best thing about this festival was at the end of our last film, it happened to be the end of the viewings at that theater, so the staff did a side step dance for us. There were about 15-20 workers dancing in the movie theater to music being played from a lap top that was being held up... so you could barely hear the music... it made me laugh. The man spoke a lot of Korean and then eventually turned to the small group of English speakers that were there and said in his broken English, we will now do a dance for you haha. It was cute... they also bowed to us as we left! It made the whole experience worth it. Now for future reference I am going to look up the directors name, rather than pick my films based on their titles.

Oh... some friends from home will get a kick out of this... Kristin Izsak and Jenny Devine to name a few haha... I was walking to work and guess band was playing on the speakers as I walked by this little coffee shop which always has some interesting English tune playing.... HANSON! Are they back with a vengance and I just don't know it because I am across the world? My friend told me that Britany has a new CD and one of her singles is pretty catchy... I think I need to update myself a little... but I think Hanson might be a little far fetched for new releases?

I got my hair cut for the second time in Korea. It only cost me 12 ooo won I think... maybe even 13 or 14... I don't remember... but man... that is so cheap! I spend a lot of my hair in Newfoundand... but I love my hairdresser and it is worth every penny! The guy who cut my hair here knew little to no English.... we communicated through signals mostly. My favourite part was when he teased me about my grey hair and even plucked one out as he laughed at me. Godddd it is getting bad... so bad that I had my hair straight for the first time in months and nicely pinned back... one of my kids said "Sherry Teacher... you Grandma?!" wonderful.

October has been another crazy month. We had a teacher leave early and we had to take over her classes. I teach so much... I am looking forward to November. Especially where I am finding it hard to catch up on sleep this month. I was pretty sick for a while and sleep is just never sound. I had a flu, and my fever stayed for two nights, so I went to the doctor. I really don't like going to the doctor, and here it is hard because I have to go with my boss, so she can translate for me.... well I decided that for this particular illness I wanted to go alone, since I didn't want my boss to be listening to all my bathroom problems. I went to the Doctor who I saw last time I was sick, and I remembered his English was good. Well.. he ended up calling my boss, have the number on file and I didn't even realize... so she knew everything anyways. Then, after that humiliating experience, the Doctor takes me to the nurse, who then takes me to this little room. She pulls a drape a little, but doens't bother to close the door... so anyone who came into the front desk of the clinic could see me. I had to pull my pants down a little and I was given a needle in the bum to take away some of the pain I had from my flu. I hate needles... and I had to get one in my bum. Not fun. haha

That is all I can think of that I wanted to say, other than I have this new class now, and they have to give me English diaries every Wednesday... some said they loved their new teacher, but one called me a witch. I guess that is what happens when I make them do their work.. and even when they are done their workwork book surprise them by getting them to open their student text books and underline all the nouns on the days reading hahah. I can be a hard one sometimes!!

Well... happy October... I can't wait till the end... we have our Halloween party, and a new month with less classes to look forward to!! :)