Yooo so exciting news, I'm heading to Malaysia a week from today. Whaat. Turns out I have to do a Visa Renewal, which I choose to look at as mandatory travel, so that's pretty exciting. I have no idea what's in Malaysia, and I keep accidentally calling it Mongolia, but I'm sure it'll be a time and a half. This whole travel thing is new to me so why not jump in with both feet right? It's gone well so far. I'm better than where I started; true story, when I was told I would need a travel visa to go to China, I was planning to stop by CIBC (my bank) to see if I could get one. I've come further since then.
You could say I've somewhat recovered from culture shock (though I'm sure there's more where that came from in Mongolia). I was kinda thrown into it here right off the bat: after arriving in the airport I went with a fellow teacher to see if I could just get some water from the airport Burger King. I asked for water, and they filled a cup, and I grabbed it and immediately let it go cuz it was boiling hot. I was like...what. So I got the teacher to ask for cold water, and the lady got some, came over and poured it into my boiling water, which afterwards was still boiling. Like, I was amused, but still thirsty, so I got my friend to ask one more time for cold water (which i made a note to learn is 'bing shrey') and ended up with a cup of ice. I figured that was essentially what I'd asked for and took it and left. I still really appreciate that memory as my first moment entering a new culture; apparently folks just drink boiled water around here like it's no biggie.
For work, I've been tasked to come up with the most darn entertaining Dictation class one could hope for (that literally means just writing down word-for-word sentences I read to the students), so we'll see how I swing that. Last class I got them all yelling at each other (in English hurray) because of a game for that class that I got them to play, which was tons of fun, so now I gotta best that.
Admittedly, I'm finding it kind of hard to keep coming up with new content for Public Speaking class. There's only so many ways you can make em speak right. Like, they're finishing their debates on Thursday, and have already done a number of speeches and dialogue based things. So...now what. I gotta get creative. Which is cool. I can do that.
K, one more thing. Yesterday I went to get my haircut, and like, it was actually crazy. It was like ten dollars cheaper than I've gotten it for in Canada, and they made me fancy coffee and I got a massage and there was like a fancy bed and stuff for when they were washing your hair, it was nuts. I was mucho impressed. My head looks a bit like a pencil now but at least it was an amazing experience.
Hope the weather has stabilized somewhat over there and it's finally stopped snowing. Cheerio
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