I have found a pool

Now all I have to do is figure out how to use it. There is a YMCA about a ten minute walk from my apartment and today I finally located it. Problem is that nobody could speak English there and I certainly don't know the vocabulary for fitness centres in Korean. I'm still working on food ordering.

I saw the pool through an observatory window and it looked nice. There are two actually, and one was crowded but the other was pretty quiet. Oh how I wish I could read and communicate. I'll see if someone at my school can help me out with this.

Now that school is getting easier and I don't have too much to do in the evenings, I really need to get myself into things. I have my guitar to keep me busy, and I'd like to get swimming. Maybe D'Arcy and I will take up some kind of tae kwon do or tai chi. Whatever those are. Or maybe we'll take Korean lessons. All I know is that I need to make a life for myself or else I might go crazy.

I think I'm already going crazy. My elementary school kids come after kindergarten on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and they're out of control. I'm not a very good behaviour management inforcer. The real problem is that they have these two workbooks, phonics and Magic Time, which are way above their level. I have to teach certain pages each day and they don't understand anything. They have a test on Wednesday that they'll all fail miserably but apparently you can't fail them. I'll have to give them a B and pass them on to the next level. It's ridiculous.

Holiday next week!