Snow again
Although it's been snowing off and on all day with the end result being lots of snow and majorly icy roads which are really not fun to walk across in sneakers which have no grip it probably won't snow enough to close the school tomorrow. But, hey dreams are free and miracles have been known to happen.
Got the usual boring meeting at work today. Why I have to go at all is completely beyond me as it's all in Korean so I usually sit there bored and not listening to a word of it. We get the joy of extra winter classes coming up too. Great fun. My idea for the winter classes? don't have them and actually give the kids a holiday. Naturally this idea was met with blank and confused stares from my KTs and the theory that the parents would complain if we didn't offer classes. Depressisngly this is probably true since when the government came up with the idea of giving kids 2 Saturdays off from school a month (they only get 1 at the moment) the response of most parents was great idea but we want you to offer some sort of extra schooling instead. Uh, people, the idea of a school-free Saturday is just that: no school. Koreans don't tend to do logic too well and the idea of kids having free time when they could be at some sort of school is pretty much beyond them and yet they see no problem with little kids running around with no parents at 10 or 11 o'clock at night. Koreans have pretty much zero logic and also don't get the concept of sarcasm either which is a pain in the butt for me because I like sarcasm and tend to use it but it doesn't work so well when you either have to explain it or you get blank faces.
Anyway, I'm freezing so I'm getting into my nice warm (I love my electric blanket!) bed.
Later all
Got the usual boring meeting at work today. Why I have to go at all is completely beyond me as it's all in Korean so I usually sit there bored and not listening to a word of it. We get the joy of extra winter classes coming up too. Great fun. My idea for the winter classes? don't have them and actually give the kids a holiday. Naturally this idea was met with blank and confused stares from my KTs and the theory that the parents would complain if we didn't offer classes. Depressisngly this is probably true since when the government came up with the idea of giving kids 2 Saturdays off from school a month (they only get 1 at the moment) the response of most parents was great idea but we want you to offer some sort of extra schooling instead. Uh, people, the idea of a school-free Saturday is just that: no school. Koreans don't tend to do logic too well and the idea of kids having free time when they could be at some sort of school is pretty much beyond them and yet they see no problem with little kids running around with no parents at 10 or 11 o'clock at night. Koreans have pretty much zero logic and also don't get the concept of sarcasm either which is a pain in the butt for me because I like sarcasm and tend to use it but it doesn't work so well when you either have to explain it or you get blank faces.
Anyway, I'm freezing so I'm getting into my nice warm (I love my electric blanket!) bed.
Later all

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