Every day I have scrupulously greeted the cleaning lady at my new school – slight bow, “안녕하십니까?” [annyeonghasimnikka] Mostly, I’ve gotten just a gruff “예..” [ye] in response. But then yesterday on the stairs, as I’m dodging her diligent mop, she stops me and says I’m a “good teacher” (in Korean, I didn’t understand perfectly, but something in… the vein of “…선생님…좋은데…” [seonsaengnim…joheunde…] so I caught the drift of it. I felt really happy.
In other news, yesterday evening I managed to get my new cellphone (well, actually it’s a new number with a month-to-month contract, on my old handset). It was a very proud moment – I negotiated the whole thing, by myself, at the “SHOW” store in Yeonggwang, in Korean! It was very bad Korean. But still… ^_^