Out of order weekend recap

Alright I think I am mostly going to recap the weekend. I don’t really remember much from last week and basically the only thing I do during the week is teach and all those days run together after awhile. Friday was an awesome day. For a school field trip we went to a water park, so fun! We took a charter bus which was nice but whoever decorated that thing OMG. I wish I could have taken pictures it was awful is the best way possible; purple curtains, tassels, maroon seats, and when you dimmed the lights the overhead lights were red, and green; which to the decorators credit when the lights where dimmed/almost off the purple curtains did match the maroon seats. This was the first long field trip I have been on. We got on the bus at about 10am and didn’t get home until about 9pm.

The place we went to was nice, it had an indoor swimming park with a wave pool, lazy river, several slides and different swim areas. At this place too they had an indoor ski slope with fake snow and there were large windows so you could watch the people skiing or snowboarding. Once we got to the water park we had lunch in a private room. It’s so funny to see what a typical “field trip” lunch is, everyone had kimbab/gimbab or samgak gimbab (this is the triangle shaped one), kind of like Korean sushi. Not one child had a sandwich :) Also everyone used Tupperware; when I think of all the garbage that is created with sack lunches which honestly I always thought was stupid. If you had room to bring it with you, you have room to bring it back, or if you’re afraid of losing a lunch box, don’t bring the gold plated lunch box or make sure your kid isn’t a dumbass that looses their stuff everywhere. I would tell them, hey if you lose your lunch box you don’t get a lunch for the rest of the year, done and done.

So once we had our fill of Kimbab we got ready to go swimming, this is where all the cuteness happened, a bunch of little kids in their adorable swimsuits with matching swim cap, almost every student had a matching swim cap, so cute : ) Then we took them all down to the pool. I was a little confused because I was the only teacher that actual wore my swimsuit, the rest just went in their clothes, and I was worried that I was going to look super covered up, I figured with all these skinny asian bodies they would be rocking the bikinis, guess not. All the students had to wear a lifejacket which was a good idea, almost everyone at the pool had one on so I don’t know if it’s required if you’re under a certain age or if everyone just does it. I was okay with it, then you didn’t have to worry about kids drowning, it was hard enough keep track of them as is. I became a hero for several students in the wave pool, they got in it and quickly realized they didn’t like it. It was kind of funny because there is this one boy who is 7 years old and a bigger kid for his class, usually a little bit of a trouble maker and can be a bully but he started freaking out, almost crying. He kept saying, “Marcie teacher, I don’t like” haha I understood that he meant he didn’t like the situation he was in, I didn’t take it personally. So he was clinging onto me for dear life as well as 3 other students; I took them safely to shallow water.

After the indoor pools we went outside and they had a water gun field, it was about the size of a soccer field and there were a ton of water guns and the kids just had a free for all. Then they had a pool with rafts in it were they were pushed around by workers to make it seem like they were on rough water, then there was an outdoor water slide and these pool toys you could sit on and ride, kind of like those bouncing balls that you sit/jump around on. After that we got dressed and then we had some dinner and played around a little bit. Then we went back outside and they had kind of like a summer camp song time, except this had a DJ. The workers were like the camp counselors leading the dances, it was really run, I had a great time spazing out. However my boss was there taking a million pictures so I’m sure once I see how ridiculous I really looked I might regret it :/ Then we headed home, the trip home was okay except 2 of my least favorite students were sitting by each other and I can’t believe I didn’t pull a grandma geri and slap someone. If you’ve listened to a 13 year old fake snore for over an hour then you can understand where I am coming from.

Friday morning I got my bank account and bank card! So I feel like I’m rich! Haha I made sure I thoroughly checked to see if it worked this weekend ; ) I bought a few things, I did some damage at the bodyshop, I love that store, I bought some shoes I don’t need but are really cute so I could find a need for it. I finally saw the last Harry Potter! So I can enjoy my life again.

I did have an adventure trying to get home on Sunday night, my friend and I caught the last train, which we didn’t realize ended only 2 stops away from where we started, FML right?! Also the subway worker was not in the mood to help 2 lost American girls, he just kept yelling at us OUT! However I did feel a little bit of justice because another guy started throwing up everywhere, gross but kind of awesome considering how I was feeling towards the worker. Luckily when we got outside this nice Korean girl and her boyfriend helped us figure out where we were and told us were we could get a cab. We had been denied by a cab already, why, the world may never know, but we walked a block down and the cabs were very happy to take us home. It ended up working out because we weren’t as far away as we thought we were so the cab wasn’t too bad. I guess the lesson learned is to never take the “last” metro train.

Saturday night was another night filled with all night dancing and shenanigans, followed by breakfast and tea in the morning before heading home for our Sunday naps ; )

As you can see I am running out of steam. I will have to tell you about Emart another day. Also my older kids are having their pop song contest tomorrow which is bound to be good : ) Love you all!

PS. I start my summer vacation week Thursday! I think I'll get my phone on my day off too!