Today I had lots of class, which was fun. Then after class I hung around and then met up with Heui-Tae in front of the library. We went to his family's apartment in centre ville (it's really close to the BU office, which is convenient) and I met his wife and two daughters.
They are so so nice. Mme Park gave me a snack and we chatted for a while at the dining room table, and then Hajeong and I went into the study to get down to business. She's only 11 and was pretty shy, but we chatted about Harry Potter (she's read all of the books already!) so I feel like we'll become friends pretty soon.
Hajeong only knows a few words/phrases in English, so we mostly communicated in French, which is definitely good for me, but I feel like I'm not speaking enough English to actually help her. Oh well, hopefully after a few weeks, I'll have worked out a system.
She told me that she loves Snoopy and so tomorrow I'm going to bring some simple Peanuts stips and we can read through them together. It should be pretty fun. I'm also planning on doing cultural units around Halloween and Thanksgiving and we're going to make crackers for Christmas! There was a page in her English book on how to make crackers, which was fabulous. Those were so uber sweet when we were little.
After a little more than an hour, I went to the BU office, handed in my official ethnographic project proposal, and then Sam, Monica and I headed to Pasta Via, where our friend was once again working. When we entered, he shouted "Hey, girl!" which we assumed was meant to be plural, because the French do not pronounce the "s" at the end of plurals. It was awesome. He gave Monica 2 extra stamps on her card. Very exciting.
Then we headed back here to watch the presidential debate. We were not impressed. And now I'm "doing homework".
P.S. So Andrew used "donking about" again yesterday and I told him that you all had been very intrigued by the meaning, and so he defined it for me/you:
donk about: Verb phrase. Informal. to do anything that does not remotely resemble work.
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that is so fabulous!!! i don't understand the connection between christmas and crackers, but who cares? it's legitimate and you are safe and THAT'S what really matters. not to mention you already sound like the cutest/best teacher ever and i am so excited for you. i can't wait to hear about your lessons!! you're the cutest<3!!
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