first lil party hostin!

 last night i made dinner for sing and michael and it was such a nice time!

(plus my apartment was soooo beautiful - i even had little candles all over the place!)
fancy pesto pasta and veggies cooked with white wine.
we all got tipsy on the wine and just talked and listened to music
which is kind of lamely my favorite type of night.
tonight i meet up with becca, who i met last weekend, to go to insadong,
a traditional tea and craft area.
so many fun things!

now i gotta go to workkkkk.
i really hate tuesdays and thursdays.
the kids in the classes are dumb and don't work and either too quiet or mean and noisy.
like i honestly don't know why their parents bother.
and it sounds resigned as a teacher to say that,
but i keep trying anyway and it's only 40 minutes and it's not like i'm michelle pheiffer and these kids are from the 'hood.
they all have fancier cell phones than i've ever seen.

i went off on this one class yesterday.
they always get 30s on quizzes. like they leave 7 out of 10 blank.
so i was basically telling them what would be on the test.
last time, i GAVE THEM THE TEST
and all the answers
and they still mostly got below 50.
so i was telling them the answers (again) and one little girl was answering a question
and some boys were just playing and throwing things and the girls were gossiping
and i just got so pissed that first, they don't respect each other, and second, many of them don't give a shit about learning at all and then their voices overpower the ones who do care, that i yelled,
"JUST STOP! STOP! STOOOOOOP! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!?!" and literally screamed at them for five minutes.
which made me feel really out of control and terrible but actually seemed to shock them a bit.
they probably went home and cried and i'll get calls today.

in another class, a girl forged her parents' and my signatures IN FRONT OF ME.
and when i said that was bad, she gave me attitude.
i crossed out the signatures and she wrote "OK" next to my null and void marks.
i told her i'd call her mom and she still had attitude.
when i talked to mrs. baek, the co-owner and official mom phone-caller about it, she did call the mom
and the mom said SHE signed it!
WHAT THE HELL.

i think our school is suffering financially because parents take their kids out when they get bad grades to switch them to schools where they will always get 90s and above.
i'm glad my school isn't like that.

some of the kids are total sweeties and funny and smart and enthusiastic and love me (instead of writing that i smell like poop in korean, like in one precious precious class). and i can even hold interesting conversations with the students in a fourth grade high level class. i really love about six of my eleven classes and really hate about three. so that's pretty ok, right?