yes... no classes!!!

Today, tomorrow, and Thursday, I have absolutely nothing to do.
The students have their midterms this week, so I have no classes to teach.
whoo hoo.
All the other teachers have to watch over the classes, you know, to make sure there aren't any wandering eyes, but since I'm the new, English-speaking teacher, I can just chill.
In some ways, it's nice being new and not being able to speak Korean, because everyone's expectations of me are really low.
Like, if I was fluent in Korean, I bet that I would be up in one of the classrooms with my ruler to open a can of whoop-a on the first student I see cheating.
Hahahaha.

Speaking of whipping some "a," the other day, one of my co-teachers hecka hit some of the students.
I was in the classroom teaching the poor students what little English I know, when "smack, smack, smack, smack."
Four kids got hit in the hall for being late to class.
Yup, Korea still allows teachers to hit their students.
It's funny because you'll see the teachers walking to class carrying their beating stick...
A lot of teachers don't actually use it, it's more for intimidation, but it still kills me.
No one cares if a student gets hurt.

Last week, there was a student who was being bad or something, so the teacher had him stand up and she grabbed his shoulders and shook him.
As the boy was being shaken, like a present on Christmas morning, he lost his energy and fell down, but, along the way, hit his head on the desk.
He then went to the principal to complain, saying that he was being abused and that the teachers hit too hard, but the prinicpal didn't even care.
The teacher was told not to do it again (but those are just words) and that was the end of it.
As a side note, the teacher claims she didn't shake him very hard and that he is a very naughty boy.
hahahaha.
I swear, these Koreans kill me sometimes.