On Friday my pre-course was finished and it was a nice Good-bye with cakes and cookies. The students thanked me and asked which of the following intensive courses I would be teaching. They have chosen different ones because of their schedules and I had the feeling that we all were a little sad about "breaking up". (And that's now when I finally know their names ;o)
On Saturday morning me and my Korean colleagues worked on correcting exams - the reading, listening and grammar parts of 'ZD'. A little boring, this template correction but still fun since we were sitting together in the teachers' lounge.
After work I walked down the hill towards downtown and discovered the following:
Seoul is swarmed with Italian restaurants and here you can also eat Genoese. I'm gonna try that one day!
I'v been strolling across Namdaemun market, the largest in town and the city centre. I discovered quite a few nice places which I want to get back to. What I like about Seoul are all the small restaurants and numberless bars and cafés.
Saturday night I've had a little mishap - I just got back from dinner at Lena's and Tina's place and shortly before going to bed I went to the bathroom just one more time. When I got back I wasn't able to unlock my door and suddenly the lock was broken and nothing worked at all. I had to wake up the porter who started to screw and draw around my lock, rather akwardly. Finally he called the "reparation student" (I just call him like this because he already fixed my internet connection once ;o) This guy went outside, entered my room by the window and opened the door from inside. But they decided not to repair it anymore that night, it was already 1.30. If I had had the chance I would have unscrewed the lock myself... When I then heard "I think you better (aaaaah!) change the room" I went along with their first idea and slept in my room with the keys inside the lock, locking the door from the inside.
On Sunday someone came to change the lock in the morning - I had insisted not to wait until Monday. Then I would have had... Well, it would have been so long winded but they hadn't thought that far.
Like this I could spend my Sunday afternoon outside and went to the Campus and the hills behind. How beautiful and quiet it is over there! Sometimes I was all alone... And enjoyed the fresh air and the view over Seoul:
Yesterday there was another exam correction, this time the essays. Thinking is required... I finally met my boss who had just returned from Pyongyang. Together we went through some sample corrections which was very helpful. When we had finished correcting after four hours I could hardly write anymore ;o)
In the evening I went out for dinner with my colleagues. It was Tina's last night here because she returned to Germany this morning where she'll spend the summer. We went to a small restaurant and I had an incredibly delicious, slightly spicy soup with tofu, dumplings, scrambled eggs and mussels - accompanied by many small bowls of side dishes. And I remember the soup's name: Su Man Du So Du Bu ;o)
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