YMCA Teacher

When I started going to the YMCA for Korean classes it was kinda weird because our teacher had to leave half way through the term not sure why and so since she left we then kept having different Korean teachers every week, so that we never knew who would be teaching that week.

But for the last maybe 3 weeks we have had this one Korean teacher, MyungHee, whom I really like/ She is super nice, teaches well, and really cares about her students. Though sometimes I think she gets frustrated with us because, while she will be trying to explain a simple grammatical point, we will randomly ask questions on how to say something that requires the use of a much more complex grammatical structure (something we would probably see 4 levels of korean later) and so she asks us to be patient and tells us we WILL see it in the future, but we always insist that we want to learn it at that moment. So she usually ends up giving in to our request, and taking the time to explain something to us that we really are not ready to learn yet.

It's kinda funny actually. Just picture this... You are trying to teach a student the how to form the past tense of regular verbs (irregular verbs you have not covered yet) and then the student asks you a question on how to express something that requires a combination of the past conditional and subjunctive tenses... yeah... so this is what she deals with when she has to put up with us! hihihi... lol

Yesterday I got thrown off a little because she called me up on my cell (note: i usualy text back and forth with teachers, but people dont usually call) Anyways.... i have no caller id so i always answer my phone. At anyrate, first of all, i was embarassed because when I answered the phone someone responded in korean and I was not sure who it was so I asked (in korean) "excuse me, but who is this?" and then after like 2 seconds it hit me and i said "Sonsengnim?"- meaning teacher in korean. Anyways... then she said, "yes its me"... and we proceeded to chat for a bit. Now the reasons I really do not like talking to people in Korean on the phone...
1. Talking with people on the phone is one of the hardest things for me to do, as I find it very difficult to focus on what the other person is saying...especially since I also always have a hard time listening well. Even in English. I remember Eric B always telling me when I was on the phone with him "are you deaf? bist du taub? estas sorda? etc etc etc" because every now and then I would say "im sorry? what did you say? huh? what was that? what!>?!?!? say that again?" ... you get the point. So yeah.... generally i have always struggled with phone conversations
2. my Korean sucks. I mean.... if i am you could say a native speaker of English and have trouble with phone conversations, can you imagine what its like in Korean?!>!!???! Exactly my point/

So yesterday MyungHee kept talking to me on the phone at to what me seemed, a quick speed (but she was probably speaking slowly). She was asking me if I was free next Saturday. I guess she wants to get together with me because she wants me to meet her daughter, who is 19. But I was not sure about mys schedule so she said she would just call me later Friday evening.

will let you know what ends up happening or what we end up doin