So far my classes have been going well. I have really been connecting with my older kids. It's my kinders that still need some basic lessons. Usually if a kid asks to use the bathroom, I let them go. If they ask right after the whole class went on a bathroom break, or they have gone three times that day, I say no, because by then I know they are asking to go just so they can leave the room. One day, a boy in my kindergarten class named Dan asked to use the bathroom twice in one hour. When he asked me again, I said," no Dan, you have used it twice in one hour." Usually when I do let him go to the bathroom, he just wanders the hallways with no intention of using the bathroom. To prove a point I wasn’t going to let him do that anymore. Only, he had a more potent point to show me. When the class was getting ready to leave, putting on their outdoor shoes and packing their bags, Dan said in a rather quiet voice and holding on to his pants: “Kate Teacher, I went bathroom.” ...
Insadong- Perhaps one of Korea's most intregeing places I have ever seen, this busting neighborhood, was one endless street of shops, resturants and galleries. The shopping was unbelieveable. Jewerly, tea, pottery, Korean-made mother-of-pearl items, (which are beautiful, but expensive) and pretty much everything else manufactured in Souteast Asia. The best part of this trip were the tea houses that we found off the beaten path. One was squeezed between pottery shops that was easily missed if not for the train-themed sign that stood outside a large wooden door. I wish I could reember the exact name of this place, because it was one of those unforgettable escapes, where as soon as you step into the shop you are instantly transported to some other place and date in history. This whole shop was like being in an old fashioned train, fully equipped with real train seats, railroad signs and train tracks that one had to walk on to get to a seat. Its realness was unimaginable. We enjoyed cups of pumpkin tea, (yes pumpkin) and it tasted like drinking sweet pumpkin pie, exept in liquid form. If its tea with fruit, seeds, or other solids, its called a "tea fusion."
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