Metric what?

This is kind of a piggy-back on Jacqui O's blog about the metric system but it needs to be said. The US is dumb. Only 3 countries in the world don't use the metric system. The US, Liberia- a country that the US helped form, and Myanmar (Burma)- a country with a military totalitarian dictatorship. In fact, there are more communist countries in the world than countries that don't use the metric system. Ok, maybe the first map is a little off. Cambodia has since become a constitutional monarchy. But still, one country doesn't make that much of a difference.

Its really annoying when a pretty big chunk of your friends are from Canada or the UK and they talk about things like the weather or distances in a way you can't even understand. Being a science major I knew about how much 10ml was or that water froze at 0 and boiled at 100. But when I go to E-Mart and see that 10kg bags of rice are relatively cheap, its because its 22 POUNDS of rice. Needless to say I'm up to my ears in rice so if anyone wants some, you can find me in Korea.

Thank God weather.com will stay in Fahrenheit. Otherwise I hear "oh it'll be 18 degrees tomorrow", put on my coat and hat, only to realize that 18 degrees Celsius is 64 Fahrenheit and I'll be fine with a hoodie.

6 months down.

Well, I guess a little more than 6 months. Crazy how fast time flies. Today was the start of the first full school week of the semester. Tomorrow, most of my classes are canceled! Apparently in the second week of school 1st and 2nd grade students have exams. I'm so glad I'm not a Korean student.

I can already tell this is gonna be a good year with my classes. The 2nd and 3rd graders seem excited really excited for class. I'm happy that I have class with the third graders every week instead of every other when they were in 2nd grade. That being said, I'm bummed that I only get to see the new 2nd graders every other week because they were so funny as 1st graders. The new first graders are great. In one of my first grade classes today every student would stand up to ask a question. Another class wanted to give me an English name. The Ego trip also continues. Last Wednesday we had the "welcome to middle school" assembly. As I walked in, all the students I walked by were calling and waving to me. When the principal introduced me to the new students and their parents, all of the 2nd and 3rd graders were SCREAMING and cheering for me. Its gonna suck to go home and not be this big of a deal.