More Tales of Miming.

I've haven't felt great this past week and yesterday morning I woke up with an incredibly sore throat. Which made it time for everyone's favorite game "Miming at the pharmacy"! All drugs are over the counter in Korea, even Tylenol and Aspirin. I was trying to buy Halls or something of the like and spent twenty minutes trying to suggest this in sign language. Korea has one of the most strict anti-drug policies in the world and this carries into being extremely alarmist when it comes to the most basic of cold medicine. I went home and copied the proper characters from my Hangul to English book. The pharmacist still had no idea what I wanted and I went home feeling like an idiot sideshow freak for having to play charades in such a public place. Now I have a sore throat, wounded pride, and still no throat soothers.

Frustration.

In other news, today is "Sports Day" at my school so I have no classes to teach. I'm going to be refereeing a soccer game in the afternoon and yelling out English instructions in a relay race. Should be fun. Girls don't play soccer in Korea, it's considered a "man's sport". Whenever I've told the kids that I play soccer they all gasp. My co-teacher kindly explained that they are really not used to that and think that I must be a big "tomboy" and that I must be really "tough".
Now that they all know I play soccer they've been much better behaved.

It's the ultimate discipline tool.