Some South Korean moments since I've been back:

1. Getting stared at on the subway in Seoul. Okay maybe that's because I had a hiking backpack on my back, a regular backpack in front, and was carrying a duffel bag.

2. The random Korean conversations with the old man sitting next to me on the train which I can't understand. Nice guy though.

3. Arriving at my homestay, saying hi to everyone, asking where my host brother is.
"He went to Seoul."
"Oh. when will he come back?"
"Maybe in February."
"What will he do in Seoul?"
"He will study."
"oh. how about that."

4. Getting woken up two nights later by my host brother watching TV late at night. He was back just for the night because he had a toothache.

5. Having my plans for the winter camp crumble because the students don't want to speak English.

6. Second day of English camp - I get to school almost an hour early because I want this day to go better than the first and need to prepare. But the classroom is locked, the office staff is out to lunch, and I can't reach my coteacher on her phone. The classroom gets unlocked right when class is supposed to start, my coteacher comes in and throws a bunch of papers and 6 cassette tapes at me, exclaiming that students 'must like these materials.' As if the students need anymore practice reading. That's all they know how to do. And I should magically teach which I have never looked at before. And the projector in the classroom doesn't work. No, this day would turn out to be my worst teaching day ever, so bad it was hilarious.

7. But I rebounded. The kids got different seats, and I changed the exercises. And I didn't need to use the tapes.

8. Some of the family's cousins came over today. They are in their early 20s, and live in Seoul, so they have seen Americans before. When they came in I said hi and the girl cousin ran into my host sister's room an the guy cousin went into my host brother's room.