Silent Disco?

Welcome to November my friends, welcome.

November is such a great month. Usually it is not extremely cold and you can enjoy the fall weather.
I hope that is how it will be here as well.

Well this is the week where all the kids take their Achievement Level-Up Test!
This term I am not administering the test because only the listening-speaking teachers are giving it to them.
I will get a listening class sometime in my year here, but not this time.
The kids are extremely nervous!!! They get nervous for a little test, that I cannot imagine what is going on in their head for this huge test.

On Friday, the head listening instructor/head of the program had a meeting for the new listening instructors on how to administer the test. I came to the meeting too because I am a new instructor who needs to know about the test.
I was able to get a peak at the test my kids will be taking. Lets just say it is no "cake-walk."
There were four sections, writing, reading, listening, speaking.
I remember doing the speaking session back in high school for spanish and it was nerve-wracking.
There is definitely a lot of pressure on these kids here in South Korea to do well.
I just have to remember, compassion for them and passion for teaching.

I had a fun weekend! I rested up on Friday so that I could party for Halloween on Saturday!!
Saturday I walked everywhere because it was a gorgeous day. I was in and out of little boutique stores and just gazed at some things. Saturday night I met up with my friend Aisling from training. She brought two of her friends with her as well.
We went to a little park by my house where they were having this thing called "silent disco."

We grabbed a pair of headphones they were handing out and there was techno-electronic music playing. They had a DJ playing the music and there were at least a hundred people dancing to the music only coming out of the headphones. If you took the headphones off, everyone looked like idiots because there was no music playing outside on speakers and everyone was dancing.
We were dancing with Koreans and some other foreigners as well. It was wonderful to dance and just laugh at how silly everyone looked!
I kept thinking to myself, I don't think I have had this much fun in a long time!
After dancing for a couple of hours, we went to a couple clubs and danced some more!
A good number of people were dresses up for halloween, but nothing like you would see in the United States.
We also did a count-down until Halloween. I felt as if it was New Years!

Sunday Racheal and I went to Myeong-Dong, the shopping district of Seoul. We didn't end up buying any clothes but had a delicious Korean lunch! I had kimchi soup:) It was spicyyy but soooooo delicious!!!

Now this week I have to get my kids focused on the last couple of weeks. I am trying to give them some tips for the test they take this week and of course handing out more candy! They eat chocolate like you have never seen. Yesterday I saw a kids stuff three little bars of chocolate into his mouth. "I'm like woah woah woah, settle down there, don't get too crazy!"

That is all I can think of for now, but there will be more stories this week!!!

xoxo Kristen