thunder

A month from today I'll be flying home.

Today there was thunder and lightning. I like this weather. I hope for one good knock-down, drag-out monsoon thunderstorm before I leave, preferably at night.

The job search is looking up again, but I'm not too hopeful.

This is a lull time. Nothing interesting to write about. I went to Damyang, a town a little north of Gwangju, on Tuesday for the provincial foreign-language contest. We had three students participating in English (I've been practicing with them daily for the past month or so) and two in Japanese. The day was ultimately boring for me, since I spent a lot of time waiting, but it wasn't too bad. I think at least one of our English students did really well, and will probably place.

I've been showing Pleasantville in my classes, a video without subtitles that Mom mailed me awhile ago. It's a compromise--I'm not grading them anymore, so I can't expect them to do something educational, but I feel better showing them something that requires some thought on their part (thus the lack of subtitles). Tonight I'm going to go see Batman Begins with the New Zealander that works next door at the boy's high school, and his wife. Tomorrow afternoon I'll go to Seoul to meet up with other ETAs and have one last Fulbright dinner. It'll probably be the last time I see the vast majority of the other Fulbright ETAs. It's a lull time, and that time when people are starting to disappear from your life, and you probably won't see most of them ever again.