Phone Jail!

Koreans love cell phones! Everywhere you look people are talking on cells, texting or holding their phones so that they're ready for an incoming call. I think one of the things that shocked us the most was seeing how many little kids have cell phones too. Perhaps their parents are using it as a safety precaution, but I don't understand why a four year old would need one!
Anyways...this presents a bit of a problem for me as kids are often distracted by their phones and try to hide them during class. I catch countless numbers of kids trying to text without looking at their phone- points for talent!
Very early on I saw the necessity of what's called, "Erin's Phone Jail." If I see a phone or hear a phone, it goes to phone jail for the rest of class and cannot be used even on breaks. Today I was teaching some junior students and a phone started to ring. I was slightly irritated as all my kids denied ownership of the ringing phone. I made them all look in their bags to prove that it wasn't their phone making the noise. Unfortunately, they all proved they were telling the truth and I then realized that it was MY PHONE! How stupid do I feel!! Naturally, the kids thought this was hilarious as my phone went to jail.

We also have a very exciting announcement:
After a year of anticipation, we have finally booked a trip to Thailand and leave this Friday April26th. We will be gone for a week returning Sunday May4th. We will visit the northern city of Chiang Mai for the beginning and then will be heading south to Phuket for the remainder of the visit. We are very excited! We are armed with our camera and are rolling up our bartering sleeves....actually Blake is more excited about this :)