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Gianni's Second Day Teaching

Wednesday, September 04, 2013 |

So my second day of teaching went better than the first in some ways, and worse in others. My first class of the day once again was lacking a projector, but I brought a modified version of Jenga that I thought might work well. Unfortunately, I didn't really think about how large the class was. I tried to have 30 students make two lines in front of a Jenga tower and play a game where they had to answer questions about the person opposite them based on which piece they pulled from the tower. After roughly five or ten minutes of this not working I decided to just got back to my normal lesson plan of introducing myself and playing two truths and a lie. My second class also didn't have a working projector, but the two truths and a lie lesson plan worked pretty well there too. I was able to use my powerpoints for the rest of the classes, which was quite a relief. My favorite part of the day was playing Pass the Paper, a game I found online where students have to throw around a balled up sheet of paper while music is playing and whoever is holding the paper when the music stops must answer a question. Most of the students seemed to really enjoy it, even if a few seemed to be more interested in sleeping. I find that this is a good way to get trouble makers and sleepers to participate though. I just let the music stop whenever the ball reaches one of them lol. After school my co-teacher came over and helped me get my hot water working. Thank. God. I also now know how to use the floor heat, which will be useful in the winter. After getting that all worked out, I went to meet Abbi at Sangin. We decided we wanted Korean BBQ again and went to the place that her coworker took us to our first night. The owner seemed to remember us a little bit and was very inquisitive throughout our meal. We found out that her son, who was the one cooking the pork at our table, speaks pretty good English when we couldn't remember the word for rice. I felt really stupid because it is just so obviously Bap. I have eaten so much Kimbap and Bibimbap that I definitely know what the Korean word for rice is. I guess we were just flustered or something. We had even passed a rice burger restaurant on the way there, yes the rice is used as a bun. Definitely going there sometime soon. Korean BBQ is very interesting to me, because it is unlike any other dinning experience I've had. When you walk into a BBQ place there are these round shiny metal tables that look very alien in a dining establishment. The fact that there is a gaping hole in the middle with a chrome tube hovering over the opening doesn't help either. My past experiences with Korean BBQ had not been that amazing, mainly because we didn't get whole lot of meat for the price. The huge difference in Korea, besides the price, is that you don't cook the meat yourself here. Our first night I thought that they were only cooking for us because we were foreigners, but during the second visit I noticed several groups of Korean business men having their meat cooked by the staff. Maybe some Koreans cook their own meat at BBQ places, but I understand why you'd want a professional cooking your meal. The waiters/staff at my restaurant put so much care into cooking every piece of meat, turning over every piece to make sure that it's golden brown. Korean BBQ is the best. All the Bonchon is amazing too. Taking a piece of freshly cooked pork and wrapping it up in a piece of lettuce like a burrito and eating it along with some fermented soybean dipping sauce is just so good. Anyway, the food was amazing and we had way more than we could ever eat. We definitely went home and just laid on our backs for at least an hour after that meal. 

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