So first off, I have to say Happy St. Patrick's Day!! I know it has been a while since my last post and things haven't been too interesting really, until today.
First, let me catch you up on my life since February. Kate and I went to the Busan Museum of Modern Art about three weeks ago. The whole experience was a lot of fun, travelling via bus, taxi, and subway trying to find the museum, and then later trying to find our hotel, and on Sunday, shopping. HA! The museum was featuring a trick art exhibit which was complete mindblowing. We spent a few hours there taking pictures of each other and asking Koreans to take ones of us together. I have a whole album of them on Facebook. They are definitely worth checking out. Below you can see a play on one of Van Gogh's paintings and another of me battling a shark. 
Then last week, I came back from lunch to shower and watch an episode of one of my favorite shows like normal. However, when I went to watch it, I was told that I could only watch it if I downloaded some viewing license. Not thinking, I clicked it, which downloaded some virus and restarted on my computer. When it restarted, the blue-screen-of-death appeared and there was nothing I could do about it. Like an idiot, I had not backed up any of my pictures from while I have been here, so all I have now is what's on Facebook, which stinks, but I'm just glad I have my computer back, working again and I can start capturing new memories!
As for today, I came to school, teaching like normal. It was time to teach my last class and I noticed that one of my students was not there. I ran downstairs to grab a few supplies I needed to teach the class and saw the other student, so I waved and said hello, got the materials and went back upstairs. After a few minutes, I said, "I wonder where Carly is," thinking she had time to change her shoes and get to class. Then one of the two other students in the class, Sunny, told me that she isn't in the class anymore. When I asked why, she spoke to the other girl, Lora, for a few minutes in Korean, trying to figure out how to tell me in English. Together, they came up with this, "We don't like her, so we complained about her. She reads too slow and she says words wrong, like in Kate teacher's class she said 'eve-er' instead of 'ever'. It's so simple! Also, she is not friendly with us. The other young students are friendly with us, talking about their life, but not her." I brought up Carly's age because she is in second grade whereas Lora and Sunny are both in fifth, thinking that might be why they don't like her, because she has such high English skills at such a young age.
As they were telling me this, I was in shock! Instead of teaching for the first 10 or so minutes of class, we just discussed this. I didn't understand how they could complain about a student and get her removed from my class, especially when I had seen Carly there and hadn't heard anything about her no longer being in the class. Midway through class, after we had moved on from the conversation, Ivy came in asking for the books that are at the level just below the class these girls are in. I saw her take them into the office with Big Mama, Carly and Carly's mom. So I guess that means Carly is now in this lower class?? Oh boy.
How can this be okay, you ask? I think it's all because of money. They would rather have Lora and Sunny's parents continuing to pay tutition and keep their kids at our school and risk losing one, although it looks like they somehow found a way around that, probably by telling Carly's mom that the class is too hard for her, but what do I know? :/
