hock it to me

so it's been a few days since my last post. hope you guys enjoyed seeing my closet of an apt and some of the sights i've seen lately. so i'm almost through my second week teaching and it's been a lot of fun. definitely a lot more fun than i had initially expected. the kids are relatively well behaved. they make an effort to finish everything and do it right the first time, which makes my life easier. i do have one class on wednesday evenings that just frustrates the hell of out me. it's about 15 middle schoolers, that LOVE to talk in korean during break, but no one will say a peep in class when it comes time to participate. makes the 3 hour class seem a lot longer than needed... aside from that one class, every other class is a pleasure to teach. the kids respond well and you actually feel like you're getting somewhere with most of them.

so one of the last posts i talked a bit about walking in korea. it's annoying. you can't walk. you can't walk fast. you can't walk around. it's just frustrating. the thing i forgot to mention is that people walk on the opposite side than in the US. so instead of walking on the right side of people, walking on the right side down the stairs, walking on the right side up stairs... you walk on the left side. if you ever forget and start walking into a subway station on the right side, you cause a serious traffic jam of foot traffic. it's pretty funny. but what perplexes me, is that they drive on the same side of the road that we do back home, and so it makes no sense.

i'm not sure if i mentioned, but korean drivers are crazy. red lights don't mean anything here. it's just a suggestion. motorcycles will fly by you while you're walking on the sidewalk... no big deal. yea. it's great. makes jay walking here a lil more dangerous... but i still do it anyway.

so, the title of my post... hock it to me. i think about every other day, walking down the street, you'll hear an old korean man hockin up a nice one. like a thick juicy one. well today, as i left school for the evenings, i heard 3 guys all in unison hocking. it was like some divine force that had planned for them to all hock at the same time. it's pretty sick. you just hear it all the time. so guys hock em all over the streets and it's not a big deal. i think it's cuz the air here isn't the greatest. so you get a decent build up of cancerous toxins in the back of your throat. anyway, that's my 2 cents for today. i'll write more when i'm more inspired...