Basketball "Class"

Hello my long lost friends.  I have been told I must blog or the Korean government will be informed about my gingerness.  Apparently its illegal here.  Pshhh racism everywhere I go. 

When I first arrived in Korea I had pretty much no American friends here.  I'm not complaining just stating a fact.  Anyway, about a year after I got here the Americans started flooding in.  With that came one of my good friends, Jeremy.  This Jeremy guy works at a high school here and somehow convinced his teachers and school to let him do an after school basketball class.  He then convinced the school to use a 2nd native teacher for this class.

He asked me to do it and I thought it would be a fun way to earn some extra money.  So basically once a week,Wednesdays, I go to his school at the end of the day and have a basketball "class" with about 20 kids at his school.

Now you are probably wondering why I say "class" with quotation marks.  Well, when we first started doing the class we would practice English and do basketball drills with the students.  That lasted about 2 weeks.  Now all we do is show up, split the kids into teams, and play basketball.  Very educational. 

Actually I should say that the students in his area are not really good at English and probably can not afford extra English classes (most students do this) so having me there is an extra white guy they can practice English with.  There are some outgoing kids who will talk to me, even if I can't really understand them, and I try to seek out the shy kids and talk to them a little.

So basically, once a week I have a basketball "class" and pretend to teach for a little over an hour.  And they pay me.  Ya my life is rough.