Korea Day 19

Today at work, they told us that we had to give the students a final test next week and each of us had to make up a different one for our class. It is weird how disorganized things are here. The camp has run before but they keep adding things that we are supposed to do. They gave us a sample test out of 50 marks to use as a guide. When someone asked if all the teachers with the same level of students could write the same test, the answer was no, a different test for each class! As you might have imagined, we were not too happy.

I had found a bookstore that has a good selection of English books and Joann and I went to see if we could find a guidebook for China. It was easy to find as we didn't even have to get out of the subway. There was an entrance from inside the subway into the store. It was massive and all on one level. There was a huge separate room of just foreign books. We wandered around and found some guidebooks. There was a tiny book on Beijing so Joann bought it. It was funny to see many books that we can buy at home but most of them had differently designed covers.

Inside the bookstore was a Korean fast food place. Joann and I had dinner - a small salad and curry over rice. It was the quality of fast food at home but filling.

We headed to Lotte Mart to get some groceries as we had nothing left for breakfasts. We bought yogurt, bread, fruit, peanut butter and jam. I also bought some veggies and beer.

The company, Lotte, seems to own a lot of stuff here. I am not sure what it does but there are Lotte Marts (department stores and grocery stores), Lotte World (the inside amusement park mall) a Lotte Hotel...

We were done for the night and went home. I actually wrote my final test before going to bed.