Field Trip

Today the kindergarten kids went on a field trip to the water park, Caribbean Bay.  The male foreign teachers got to go because there is only one Korean male teacher.  But Carson and I had to go to the hospital for our medical stuff in order to get an alien registration card.  Then we went and set up a bank account (with our director of course.  We're not that good at Korean).  
We got back to the school just in time for lunch.  We ate with all of the Korean teachers.  One teacher asked us if we had ever been to Route 66.  He was saying how there was a restaurant there that had a 2 kg steak that if you eat it all, it's free.  So Carson and I told the teachers that there are actually a lot of restaurants like that in the States.  Then this tiny Korean teacher, Spring, said to me, "Tausha, I can eat two big Macs."  So I told her she should move to the US.  
Another funny thing that we have noticed here is that we speak English really clearly now.  All the foreign teachers make fun of each other because we use hand motions when we speak. E.g. fanning ourselves when we say hot... stuff like that.  We don't even notice it.  Even when we're at home, Carson will enunciate every syllable and speak a little slower.  I do it too.  
At lunch one of the Korean teachers commented on how good Carson's pronunciation was.  She had an app on her phone that grades your pronunciation so she had me try it.  It just has you read 15 words then it grades you.  I only got 75%.  The Korean teacher was saying she got a higher score than me.  I got hung up on the word "read."  The phone kept not recognizing what I was saying so I'd switch back and forth between (reed and red).  Anyway, that was funny.
At the end of the day, we practice speech with a few kids.  The Korean teacher said that the kids were saying that one teacher would tell them a certain pronunciation, then another teacher would tell them to say it another way.  We have teachers from the US, England, and Scotland so we all have different accents.  The teacher said to try to teach them more of an American accent.  So we each took a kid and practiced in a different room.  Two minutes later one of the teachers from Scotland came in and asked me how I pronounce "neglect."  I just think it would be hard to learn another language from people that have different accents.  Sometimes I can't even understand all of the English.  It's all good though.  These kids are smart.

I haven't taken any cool pictures lately so here's a picture of the cereal we just bought.  Cereal is pretty expensive here (maybe 6 or 7 dollars a box), but this box was about $3 so we bought it.  I'm pretty sure the Korean translation is "Puffed sugar."  What do you think?