RED DEVILS EVERYWHERE!

I dont beleive that I just typed up a whole thing of stuff and sat here doing pictures for it adn i just managed to delete the whole thing cos of the DAMN language barrier. I am actually fuming!!!!!!!

Right one more time!!!

OK.... Calm down.

After a long night of crappy broken sleep I woke up nad went to the gym at 8 a.m. A normal day at school. Lots of kids wearing red. I was a little irritable, having only had about 5 hours of good sleep and the rest tossing and turning in the heat and noise and light that is the Korean night time.

7.30 p.m... DING DONG! Schools out.

We thought that we'd go and get some food in a Itewon which sounds like a cool place, but we didnt in the nd cos a whole bunch of random things that happened and stuff that really isnt worth typing (again).

:)

So, we ate local and chilled out at home cos we had decided that we'd try and meet Mark and Jason and some of the other guys in Guildong, Shinsegae area to watch the footy on the big screen in the square there, or maybe go to the Stadium, Munhak. Its pretty close to the place we were giong, but then we thought that it'd probably be a good idead to go there straight for the get-go. Went to the GS and got some The Hite (rubbish beer) and jumped a cab to get us there, got there adn there were hundreds of peolpe there, no thausands for sure! Well, check out the piccies!

So we got there and decided to go the football stadium rather than trying out the baseball stadium. We got there and it was really full already, but there was good space to be taken on he steps, which was just fine by us! The atmosphere was really great! Everyone was wearing red and chanting together. People really appriciate the position the football team got into! Unlike England where we got through but we still moan and in my mind rightly so!!

I got a complaint about the lack of me on my blog, so this is for you, Mum.I was in the middle of makign two differnt stupid faces and they cancelled out, mostly.
So we took our seats, Ryan, elaine and myself, and waited for the game. We got there in good time really, we got there at 1.15 a.m and the game kicked off at 4 a.m so there was a whole bunch of time to waste by chating, chanting and sipping on the beers we brought. After some cherleadig entertainment they eventually opened up the pitch so that they could fit more people in the stadium. It was pretty mental in there before the pitch invasion but after... wow... not bad at all!!!

Down at pitch level.
DAY-HAN-MIN-GU!!! CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP!!!

Heres Ryan and Me being cheerleaders, getting the guy with the drum to help out.

You can just about make out Elaine, the blonde in the middle.

Thats the chant. Ryan started it a few time, although I'm not sure he knows what it means. To be honest I dont! But you shout it and people love to see foreingers support their team. They are probably the best supporters in the world! What a bunch!

So... 3 hours or so to kill... chant a bit... go to the gents... sip some beer (The (s)Hite and have a chat...

Just before kick off I went for a walk to see what I could se. I ended up on the pitch. Which was pretty cool! On the way back I bumped into Sarah, Marks girlfriend. He was in the stadium, but couldnt contact us cos the network was too busy! So that was a stroke of luck.

The game kicked off at 4 a.m to a roar! the stadium was on fire with all the Red Devils! The Chanting was fierce and the support was as if will alone could win the game for the team who were thousands of miles away! They were loving it! We were loving it! Loads of fun, but it was morning and I was tired. I didnt fall asleep but I was flagging for sure!!! But with all the noise and commotion you cant sleep, it was pretty intense.

And Even when they went one behind the support didnt stop. It was as strong as it had been. Still chanting, it seemed like it was still 0-0! It was a shame that it had to happen like that. They simply couldnt find the net. So we thought we'd go home 20mins before the end of the game, but them they went 2-0 and 50% of the peolpe in the place had the same thought. So we left adn headed to a friend of Sarah who was waiting for us (for a long time) and kindly took us home.

7.30 a.m... breakfast time. I had done a full day awake, and felt it!!!

Heres me in the KimBap House just before tuckinh into Don Cass brekky.

Happy Bitrthday Yan! Hope you had a good one!

Well I think that was the most uneventful weekend since I arrived here. All i did was watch my World Cup predictions go down the pan and sit about. I did however do some sun bathing on the roof of my apartment. That was probably the most stimulation thing that happened this weekend... I lay still for 2 hours. I think the highlight of the weekend was chatting with Yan, KEEP UP THE GOOD VEST WORK!!!

My sleep pattern is messed up not only due to the World Cup but also cos my room gets really quite hot then cool over the night. I am not too sure why. I close the windows and turn the air con on then with in a couple of hours of it turning off I am too hot again. Then in the morning I wake up cold! Gonna go and buy a fan at some point soon.

Phone teaching came and went last week. It got easier again. I dread it in the biuld up to it, but when you are i the swing of things its really not so bad. And we get free food for the first couple of evenings. This time we ordered a really nice pizza, a steak pizza with all sorts of other things on it as well. it was really mouth-wateringly good! And this month was the first month that I actually made sure the kindergarten kids had their books! It really makes a difference!

Oh and by the way! If any girls have an incling to come out here for a year I think there is a job going in my school. Not that I personally would prefer a girl but thats what the school requires... no... really :)

I'm hungry. Only an hour and 45 minutes until I can go home, two more classes!

"You're playin' catch up!"

Right... the last week or so has been a haze of late nights and football. Trying to catch as many of the games as possible. I could have done last night but I was in a friends house who doesn't have his TV hooked up. So instead we checked out the Arnie soundboard and made a few phone calls! hehehehe!

Should finish my phone teaching tonight. Its impossible for me to finish it in two nights, while both Elaine and Brian re pretty much done. I have too many Kindergarten students like seem to like long silences. "Do you have your book?" "No" ...they get their book... "finished" "OK open your book to page 11"... ... ... ... ... "Teacher!" "yeah?" "FINISHED". Its pretty obvious what I want them to do, read. But all of them still need prompting and never tell me when they get to the page.

But they can be so cute! In the picture, I teach the top two rows of kids they are the older ones, but then again some of them really dont have the brain power to even walk properly! OK I'll be fair... only two of them are that bad, but they make up for the rest of them. I gave one of them three books to carry into the class, not huge books, but she failed and dropped them... 3 books! them she laughed picked them up and started walking about smacking the books on the top of her head, giggling... I guess that explains something. The other, I see about town draggin her feet everywhere she goes, with a really gormless face on. She's getting better, I think she actually is getting bored of being ignored in my class and is starting to actually try!!!

Last weekends blog... no no no.. the weekend befores blog

Weekend before last was a good weekend. Had a relaxing couple of days. On Saturday I went to Shinsagae and did a bit of shopping, then went for a walking in the park. The pictures of which are below. Then on Sunday I went back to the beach with Elaine and Ryan and met some cool people, I was asleep for most of the day but getting a massive cut in my foot, well it was two cuts really. So I couldn’t walk on it for a couple of days. It was better by Saturday… when I had an incident with a kiddy ‘ball pit’ and managed to pull a muscle in big toe! How good is that?! I get batter form one injury and hurt the same foot on the very next day. Well it just means that still no running in the gym.

Last night was good, I went to a bar with my supervisor to watch the Korea game… the same supervisor that was banging back the Soju’s and is currently asleep on his desk! HAhahAHahHAAh! Good atmosphere at the bar even when they were 1-0 down. As you could imagine it went mad when they scored and we got free beer when they eventually won it!

In the day everyone on the streets was in red, all the kindergarten kids wore red to the field trip that we went on. We went to a war memorial in Songdo, which is on the coast and only about 30 minutes away from here.

OK… time to sort my first lesson of the day out. Take it easy!