Korean Magic Shows and Weird Medicine

Today at school, my life was changed.  I was able to witness tiny Korean children getting down to the beautiful musical selection of "Open Gangam Style".  If you have not been living under a rock, you know that this is a very popular trend to watch on youtube/make your own video of you and close friends doing ridiculous dance moves, but to see tiny Asian children doing it in a large mass was just too much wonderful. The magic show that we watched today in the gym was quite a success. (During the magic show there was a musical interlude which is when the dancing commenced.)  Of course the show was done in Korean so I didn't understand most of what was being said, but it was fun to watch the kids' reactions to his tricks! There was an array of live animals involved as well, including a guinee pig, three white doves, and a chicken.  So school was fun.  Duck, duck goose is also considered rocket science if you weren't aware . It is nearly impossible to get children to grasp the concept of running AROUND the circle to tag the person who goosed them.  They just run all over the classroom instead.  At school, it's like a craft store threw up all over my desk.  As a kindergarten teacher, I'm required to decorate my classroom.  This task involves making detailed charts and displays consisting of the seasons, weather, days of the week, months of the year, a good points chart, a seating chart, a feelings chart, a lunch helper chart, and any other thing that is important for a five year old to see on the wall.  As you could probably guess, I am having wayyyyy too much fun with this aspect of being a teacher.  Pinterest is my best friend! I made a rocket ship good points chart, which I'm very proud of, the idea stemming from my own 3rd grade experiences with learning your times tables.  Your rocket climbed the wall every time you learned a new number.  My kids have rockets that climb to outer space, if they're good.  When they get to space, they get a present.  It's working swimmingly.  After work, I was going to ask the school nurse for advice on what to take for the three ailments I have at the moment.  Yes, Korea is making me ill, but I will live.  Especially now.  The nurse sent me to the doctor, which just conveniently happens to be located on the top floor of the building that my school is in! Isn't that handy? I was hoping they would just give me a prescription and send me on my way.  Didn't happen.  First off, they didn't speak a word of English, so trying to gesture to them where the problems were was quite a fun task.  Thankful for my theatre training at this point, because hopefully they understood and gave me the correct meds. Oh, and a shot. THEY GAVE ME A SHOT.  Since my health insurance isn't set up with the school for another three weeks, I had to pay for everything out of pocket.  In America, this would have been a crazy fee.  I paid $50 total and they apologized for it being so expensive. I think they apologized anyways, can't be sure.  So, a doctor's visit, a shot, and 2 prescriptions for $50.  Can't beat that. Plus I was able to walk right in and be seen by a man in a pink lab coat.  Emily Jean Upchurch needs one of those instead of her boring white one :) Medicine is kicking in and I'm off to bed soon. Loved talking to my grandma yesterday, thanks Alex, and Aunt Beck this morning.  More Korean adventures to come !