by the end of last week, i couldn't wait for the weekend...the kids were driving me crazy...one of the more troublesome kids had been relatively good for a couple weeks, but last week not so much, especially the last couple days...it didn't help that on friday we didn't have a field trip, or anything else..according to the weather people, it was going to be cold last friday, so on wednesday, the school decided to switch friday and monday...so i got to teach friday...the first time teaching five full days in a week in foreva...it made me realize how lucky i am to be at this school, as i don't normally have to do that...by the end of friday i was completely worn down, and very very ready to shoo the kids out the door, and leave a couple hours later myself..i still love the kids, but every now and again i can't wait for them to leave..
the weekend was rugby based...yay...saturday, the second 15 of the survivors played..it was their first official game as the second squad, they're calling themselves the killer Bs..an expat team from cheonju (about three hours away?) came up to play..the Bs smashed them, 27-7..it's great that the survivors have so many guys coming out that they have two squads..a bunch of the girls came out to support, as did friends and significant others of the guys..it was the first time i've ever watched any of the survivors play, and i loved it..i was able to see some of the stuff we've been doing in practice happen in a game, and a lot of it made a whole lot more sense..i could see rucking, and passing, and side outs, and scrums..everything..i also saw a broken nose, yuck..lots of blood..i'm not sure why, (nor is anyone else i talked to) but the koreans have been filling in the pitch with sand..grass won't grow anymore, which sucks..the whole field is going to turn into dirt, and none of us can figure out why they would want that to happen..obviously the pitch is going to get torn up over the summer, but you'd think they'd fill it in with dirt, not sand!!! it's not good for a ruck or scrum, no one can get any traction!! ugh..
after the game a few of the girls went to indigos, which seems to be a go to place after rugby..yummy food, and there is always good conversation..from there, mel and i went walking up to itaewon, as both of us wanted to go to the bookstore..i was looking for the next book to read for my book club, but i didn't find it..mel found the book she needed for her book club..in the middle of looking around she handed me a book w/out saying a word..something about "how to kick your sugar addiction"...perfect for me, lol...but i didn't buy it..instead i bought a book about steroids and baseball, and one about the korean war..both of us could've easily spent more time in there, i can spend hours and hours browsing in bookstores..after the bookstore we went to a foreign foods market, as mel needed supplies for dinner..i ended up getting bhindi masala..according to the package, its the most popular brand of ready to eat food in india..which made me laugh, cause they don't really do "ready to eat" in india..either you go to a restaurant (not many people do that) or you make it at home..bhindi is okra, which i love the way it's done in india..i bought a box, just to see what it's like..(a week later and i still haven't gotten around to eating it, oops)..
from there, i went home, and didn't do anything the rest of the evening..
sunday morning i was planning to go to church, then rugby practice (which was switched because of the guy's game on saturday)..but i didn't get up in time to get to church..instead i arrived at rugby practice 15 minutes early, because the subway connections worked just right...there is one line that only runs every fifteen minutes, and it seems that you just miss it, or just make it..
anywho...practice ended up being awesome, even though it didn't start out that way..to begin with, there were only 4 people there when practice was officially supposed to start at 1130..we started warmups at 1145, when there were 6 people there..by 1215 we had a few more..showing up that late makes me wonder why people even bother..we ended up having some good drills and spent the last 20 minutes playing 7s..for the first time ever, i actually felt like i knew what i was doing most of the time!!! YAHOO!! i even got lucky with a breakaway and scored!! YAHOOOOOOOOOOO..it felt good..
one of my coworkers had told me there were lots of cherry blossoms there, and i wanted a few pictures..not surprisingly, there were also a LOT of people..TONS..oh well, that's korea..she was right, there were a lot of cherry blossoms, they're soooo pretty..the weather was nice, so i ended up sitting under a tree reading for a while as well..home afterward:)..afterward i went to coffee bean for a chai and a cake...coffee bean is my all time favourite coffee chain, i would be happy to go there every day..unfortunately it's also pretty much the most expensive coffee chain in korea..go figure..grocery shopping ended a good weekend:)
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