CAMP!

I'm in Bucheon right now, for the camp that Aziz set me up with (Aziz is the father of one of Steve's students). The thing started off as a bit of a gong show.
We arrived and met with Aziz right away, and he gave us the material so that we could prepare for our classes. Unfortunately, even he didn't know how to read the scedule we were given. The schedule seemed to show us teaching way too little, and only for two classes, somehow, when there were three of us, and another schedule seemed to conflict with what we were given. We had two books, but none of us could figure out why.
We are spending our time here in Bucheon staying at a "goshiwon". I was a little worried when Aziz described it, but it is awesome! It's about $120 for fifteen days or any number less. That's a good deal, when many other cheap options, like love motels are up to $30 a night! There was a bit of a kerfuffle regarding the cost of the place, because as I've said before, Koreans tend to mix up numbers. They don't think in thousands, they think in ten thousands, so when they translate to English, they tend to mix their numbers up in our system. So when three foreigners ask about the price (expecting a nightly fee) and are told 11000 won, we get a little weird when one of us has to pay 110 000 won for nine days... but we finally worked it out.
We get a tiny little room that is about the size of the bathroom of our apartment in Yeongam. The cot goes under the desk, most of which is covered with a TV. Basically the room is only for sleeping, but that's fine. There's a great PC bang right downstairs, and lots to do otherwise.
When we arrived at work yesterday (one half hour early, to give lots of time for talking about the schedule) we were very much alone. There was no-one there. No students even! Turns out that we were not supposed to be there until ten (an hour and a half after when we thought we had to arrive) so we had a lot of time to kill. It took about half an hour for the schedule to be communicated, because the woman telling us about it made it sound like two of us would be in the same place and no teacher in the other, but we finally got it worked out.
The reason for the second book that no-one could explain was that there was a general and an advanced class. So poor Rodrigo had the advanced class first, with no preparation, because there had been no warning that we would have to prepare from the second book.
So we had six classes yesterday and six classes today. The camp is largely unremarkable, it's just teachers, and many of them are pretty shy. They participate if you tell them to, often immediately, but getting volunteers is like pulling teeth. No complaints when they are "voluntold" though.
Well, that's really all the news. I've got nothing else.

But I'll post more later.