Drinking with Koreans

October 27, 2010

Today was my first experience “going out with my co-workers”, which was a very, very interesting encounter indeed. The day – Wednesday – was good. I had afternoon classes (well, class starting at 4:30, technically) and then in the evening I spent all three hours doing phone tests. That involves calling up the students and talking to them for about 3 minutes while they try to remember fairly significant facts from their reading books. Such as: where do we find trees? Answer: a forest. Yeah. That was a question. And no one got it right.

After that we headed out to 5500, which is a Korean BBQ place right next to the school. Sacha warned me in advance that Koreans drink a lot, and that if I tried to keep up with them, there’s no way I’d win. So I didn’t try. I stuck to beer – I probably had only 2 glasses the whole night – which turned out to be a good plan, because holy cow can those Koreans drink.

We got there early and had some BBQ while waiting for our coworkers to show up. When the Koreans finally arrived, out came the soju almost instantly. I can’t imagine how many bottles we went through – 15, maybe? Even the tiniest of the girls did like 8 or 9 shots, and believe you me, they can hold their liquor. It was actually really impressive, and I don’t know if I could duplicate the feat.

The interesting part was the social interaction. They do this thing where they ask “Are you okay?”, which is a way of being friendly and showing concern for your fellow coworkers/friends. CK was apparently concerned that I was being too nice with the kids, and that they were walking all over me, which is really only the case in one class, so I assured him that I was perfectly fine. But one of the girls was particularly adamant – Young Sun, the TA who helped me out for the medical checkup a few weeks back – and I’m going to say she asked me if I was okay at least 20 times throughout the course of the evening.

All in all it was fun, and very intriguing to watch. Next time I’ll definitely join in the soju fun, although I’ll have to make sure I don’t get carried away, and therefore need to be carried home after. I still haven’t gotten used to the all-night-partying mentality that they have here. When I was ready to head home at 2 am, the Koreans indicated that they were heading out somewhere else to continue drinking. I couldn’t believe it!

Suwon Fortress and AK Plaza

October 23, 2010

Today Sacha, Sean and I headed out to Suwon fortress, which is in the town of Suwon. Suwon is about halfway between Pyeongtaek and Seoul, so it took about 30 minutes on the subway to get there. I have learned that I will be using only one subway line, really, the one that goes toward Seoul, because that is where all the exciting things happen.

Once we got to Suwon – interesting sidenote, the train station there is also in an AK Plaza – we took a cab over to the main gate. Turns out Suwon fortress is huge – about a fourth of the town is inside the walls, which kind of reminded me of the Great Wall of China, except a lot smaller! There was some pretty heavy traffic, it being 4:30, so we sat in the cab for a good 20 minutes. The final toll was something like W10,000 – about $10 – but we got there safe and sound, so it was all good!

We ended up at the visitor’s centre, which is where the Eastern Gate was – which looked more like a temple than a gate, due to the temple-like structure that was covered with beautiful green and red paintings. At the visitor’s centre they had an archery range set up, and we watched for a few minutes as a line of old men took turns shooting targets that had to be at least 50 yards away. Or farther? Far enough that I couldn’t see where the arrow landed, I could only hear the thunk if it hit the target. I think the men were part of an archery club of some sort, because they had different coloured scarves hanging out of their pants pockets.

After attempting to sneak into the fort without tickets – which is to say, we didn’t know we needed tickets, and a lady in a hanbok yelled at us – we got very confused in the ticket line and eventually got tickets for both the fort and the train ride. The train was a cute little trolley, with the lead car designed like a dragon’s head. To quote the back of the ticket, “Hwaesong Trolley consists of the power train and the three tourists’ trains. The front represents King Jeongjo in the form of a dragon head to symbolize powerful driving force, while the tourists’ trains represent king’s chair both to symbolize the king’s authority and facilitate viewing”.

We’re pretty sure that King Jeongjo built the fort, hence the large statue we found of him on our trolley ride. Before that, though, we checked out the Eastern Gatehouse, which was, as I’ve already said, gorgeous. The wall and various accoutrements – guard stations, crossbow towers, etc. – were astonishingly well preserved, which leads me to think that the government may have been pulling a Sir Arthur Evans, doing extensive “maintenance” so that everything looks like it did originally. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I’m pretty sure the vivid greens and reds of the gatehouse wouldn’t have survived that well after a few centuries.

The trolley ride was pretty neat. We picked the back seat, so we could have an uninterrupted view of the fort, but that failed when a tour guide jumped up right in front of us and hung on the whole way. Ah well. I still got lots of great footage for my “Trolley Montage”. When the trolley ride ended, though, we were stuck in the middle of nowhere. You see, the ticket we bought was one-way, but the implication was that you could get a ticket to go back when you reached the other end of the route. Not so. In fact, we caught the last train, so we were stranded.

We trekked down the hill, which had a lovely bicycle path, and caught a cab to Jang an Moon, which is a bus stop (or possibly an area of Suwon) where we met up with Zebekiah (Zeb), who is a friend of Sacha and Sean. He’s a pretty awesome guy – shaved head, bushy beard, California drawl. He took us to a Korean BBQ place that was delicious, and we had a few rounds of soju, which are guaranteed to take revenge on me tomorrow. I also partook of some Korean beer.

About five minutes after leaving the restaurant I got the hiccups. By the time we’d finished sipping beer outside a convenience store and proceeded to meet up with Corrine, who is Zeb’s girlfriend. She lives right next to the Suwon AK Plaza, which is insanely convenient. Then we proceeded to the Noraybang – no idea how to spell that – which is the Korean version of Karaoke. It was very loud, but there were awesome laser lights, and a fairly large English song selection. I think my favourite moment was when Zeb and Sean rocked out to Britney Spears’ “Hit Me Baby One More Time”. They turned it from bubble-gum pop to bordering-on-death-metal. The line of Sean’s that I managed to capture on my flip was “My loneliness is killing YOUUUUU!” Cue deep, unnecessarily menacing laughter. Very fun, and definitely something I’d love to do again.

By that point I was hicupping up a storm – I may have to lay off carbonated beverages like beer – so we said goodnight and headed back to Pyeongtaek. Unfortunately we missed the last subway train by about 7 minutes, so we had to take a W50,000 cab ride. Yes, that is expensive. But there’s no other way to get to Pyeongtaek, so we didn’t have much of a choice. It was kind of neat, because the cab driver was technically off-duty, so, because we offered a flat rate, he drove as fast as humanly possible, which involved a lot of running red lights and veering around parked cars. All in all, a wonderful day!

October 24^th, 2010

Woke up with a splitting headache, likely due to my copious consumption of alcohol the night previously. I think I’ll be laying off the beer for a while, because it’s doing my digestive system no favors. Or it might have been the Soju? I’m sure I’ll figure it out soon enough, lol.

After recovering for a few hours, I did some laundry, cleaned up the kitchen, and swept the floor. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but for me, it’s a big deal. I also had ambitious plans to clean the bathroom, but it turned out that I needed gloves for the chemicals I planned on using, so that plan was shot to heck. I settled for grabbing my video camera and heading for AK Plaza.

AK Plaza was fairly easy to locate – just go left out the apartment for a few blocks, then follow the main road straight until you hit AK. It’s literally right in front, so it’s impossible to miss. AK was... not what I was expecting. I’d been inside before, of course – that’s also where the train station is – but I hadn’t gone into the mall proper. Turns out that the mall is actually 8 stories, and about half of each story is occupied by this massive department store. I have no idea what it’s called, or how you actually buy stuff there – I didn’t see any cashiers. Another mystery to solve!

The theatre is at the top, although again, no idea how to actually buy tickets or get in. I got a nice green tea ice cream scoop from Baskin Robbins, which actually wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. It seems blasphemous to say that Canadian green tea ice cream – or, at least the stuff they serve in sushi restaurants – is better than the Korean version, but so far that seems to be the case. I also hit up the book store on the 6^th floor, which had about four shelves of English books. I picked up Catch 22, which was W20,000 – not bad. I was hoping to find some more fantasy books, and they did have Harry Potter, but no Sword of Truth or Xanth, unfortunately.

I also grabbed a soap dish and alarm clock from the massive dollar store at AK. Then I walked home, hitting up the Lotte Super on the way back to grab some rubber gloves and a little kids’ book on learning how to write in Korean. I promptly composed a song about the first dozen or so words I learned, which I shall now share with you. The song is to the tune of Queen’s Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and I have entitled it “Crazy Little Thing Called Frog”:

This thing called kawi, my scissors can’t handle it.

This thing, koyangi, I must pet that fluffy cat.

Kaekuri! Crazy little thing called frog.

This thing called napi, it flies with buttered wings,

It swings, it jives, bubbles up like a naempi pot.

Kaekuri! Crazy little thing called frog.

There goes nokuri. That racoon likes to rock and roll.

It drives me crazy. Then the talp’aengi snails through,

And leaves me with its swirly shell.

I’ve gotta be cool, relax, find a toma table and sit right back.

Maybe chill with some twaeji.

Those crazy pigs know how to set you free!

Kaekuri! Crazy little thing called frog.

The concept here is of course that after the Korean word is introduced, the next word/line tells you what the word means. So kawi is scissors, talp’aengi is snail, toma is table, etc. I think it’s pretty brilliant, myself, although time will tell if it actually helps me remember the words.

After that, discovered that while I can’t stream videos with my illegally purloined internet, I can access fanfiction, which is a slippery slope. Fanfiction once ruled my life, many years past, so I’ll have to make sure I resist its complusion. I have faith in myself! Rahhhh!

Lotte Mart!

I woke up late this morning – 11:30, if you can believe it! My plan was to get up, clean the apartment, and check out the Lotte Mart, which is the Korean version of Walmart, except I got caught up... well, not doing that. No, seriously, I was only a few chapters from the end of Wizard’s First Rule, so I finished it up. Which was very sad for me, because I want to read the sequel, but I didn’t bring it with me! Mom thinks I should buy it here, but I have no idea where to get it! I’ll have to facebook Lynn and ask her about English book stores in Pyeongtaek/Seoul. It would be a pain to go all the way up to Seoul just to get a book, though.

After wasting away my life until almost 3 pm, I finally got my act together and out the door. Lotte Mart, or “Big Lotte”, as Sacha and Sean call it, since it’s basically a huge version of the Lotte Super by our house, is a few blocks away – a bit further than the Lotte Super, but not by much, I think. I can actually take a bus to get there, but I’m hesitant about using a bus until I go with someone else first. There’s something about swiping a card when you get on and off... very bizarre.

Anyway, Lotte Mart was awesome! It’s a multi-level shopping extravaganza! And the escalators aren’t stairs, but ramps! OMG! I know, craziness. I found bedsheets on the second floor at the very back, and after some failed attempts at communication I managed to get my hands on bedsheets. However, when I got back to the apartment, I discovered that I had accidentally bought 2 fitted sheets, instead of 1 fitted, 1 not. Not to worry! Using my mad skillz, I chopped off the elastic band on one of them and created a non-fitted bedsheet. Anyone who feels like sending me a sewing kit would be greatly appreciated, lol.

Because I only bought bedsheets – oh, and a pillow! It’s one of those memory foam pillows, except I think it gave me a neck ache, but more on that later – I had to go over to Little Lotte for actual groceries. That went well, although I had to buy a big water bottle, so combine that with the groceries and my arms nearly fell off.

Sacha came by around 6 and invited me to dinner with her and Sean, which was incredibly sweet of her. I had been planning ramen dinner, so Indian food and good company was infinitely better! Apparently they tried to go to the ice bar last night, but it was closed down! Which sucked, although I understand that they found other, alcohol-related activities to keep them suitably occupied until approximately 4 am. Again, I’ll have to work myself up to such feats of stamina.

We went to an Indian restaurant, called Yaks... and something else. There was definitely a yak in the title. It took forever to get the food, but when it did come, it was soooooo good! Naan bread, butter chicken, tandoori chicken, spicy yet delicious fried rice... yum. If people come visit me, I’ll definitley bring them there... although I guess you don’t really visit Korea for a week to eat Indian food, lol. I hope they bring me along next time as well, because the food was phenomenal.

Back home, and I borrowed Slumdog Millionaire and Constantine from Sacha, who’s a huge movie buff. I think she could probably give Rhia a run for her money! Not the Proulx family, though, although that’s because we kind of cheat by getting free DVDs 24/7. Slumdog was as heartbreaking and wonderful as I remembered, and Constantine was... not quite what I was expecting, but enjoyable nonetheless. I’d got it into my head that Constantine was an angel, which is not at all the case. Hmm.

So I did go to Lotte Mart, but the cleaning part of my grand plan was a bust. Ah well. Best laid plans and all that. Back to school tomorrow, so I’d better get some sleep!

Han River Cruise

Seoul today! Since I still don’t have a phone, I stuck around the apartment until approximately 1 pm when Sacha knocked on the door and explained what the plan was. Basically, we went to AK plaza, the mall and train station, and met up with Jade and Lynn, and then headed on to Seoul. But before all this, I just hung around the house and watched Monsters Inc. Brilliant movie, but the last ten minutes didn’t download! I’ll have to re-stream it on Monday, or I’ll never find out what happens to Boo!

At the station I also met Hector, who is a soldier at Camp Humphreys, the American base outside of Pyeongtaek. He’s from San Diego, super friendly, and very charming. Apparently he used to be a marine, but now he’s at Camp Humphreys as an air traffic controller, which is the job with THE highest suicide rate. He promised that he wasn’t planning on offing himself anytime soon, though.

Took the train up to Seoul – the tickets sell out really quickly, so we had to get “standing room” tickets, which means basically that you stand wherever there’s space. It wasn’t so bad – eventually we were able to snag seats – but the train was really hot. Apparently Koreans are always cold, hence they crank up the temperature inside, which I find weird, since they don’t really have deoderant here. I guess Koreans just don’t sweat as much as we westerners – or “wey-gooks” (not actual spelling) – do.

From there, we checked all the people who were staying overnight in Seoul into a motel. It’s only a three minute walk from Seoul Central, and is run by this sweet old lady named Ann who lived in New York for 11 years. Nick apparently found the place – it’s super cheap, only 40,000 won a night – and then Jenna bonded with Ann over their mutual New York-ness.

Lynn and I elected to take the train back rather than staying overnight. It was a tough call for me, because I was very excited about going to the ice bar, but realistically it was a bad plan. My partying skills are a little rusty to be staying out till 4 in the morning – by which I mean I would have collapsed by about 1 am – and I have big plans to go to the Lotte Mart (Korea’s version of Walmart) tomorrow and clean my apartment so it’s habitable. Hopefully I’ll be able to work myself up until 4 am partying, but until then I’ll just have to miss out on all the drinking shenanigans.

From there we took the subway over to the Han river, which is one of two rivers that cross Seoul – the other is the aptly named Seoul river. We got some fried chicken and pizza – both of which aren’t things you’d think to find in Korea, and yet they are crazy popular – and they were delicious. The pizza’s crust was sort of purple, which was very strange, but Sacha thinks that it’s because of some spice/herb they put in the dough.

The cruise itself was fantastic. We were supposed to meet up with Nick and his teaching friend, who I can’t remember the name of for the life of me... wait! Jodie! Who is a guy from South Africa, and certainly not a girl as I had previously suspected. Anyway, the boat was all set to pull out and Nick and Jodie hadn’t arrived yet, so we boarded and met up with them later. The boat was your basic river cruise boat – open sides, chairs, two levels, the usual. We sat on the upper deck and took in the sights of Seoul at night along the Han river and drank beer. Well, I drank beer – everyone else drank wine, which is apparently the thing to do when you’re on a boat. And yes, we broke out into the song “I’m on a Boat” at least three or four times over the course of the trip.

After that, we met up with Nick and headed back to their hotel for recuperation. A couple of people were tired, so they had a lie down while the others (read: the girls) got ready for their ice bar night out. Then around 10 pm, Lynn and I bid the others fare well – the last train is at 10:55, but it was sold out so we had to get tickets for the 10:20. We grabbed burgers from McDonalds, which was at the train station, and I had a “bulgogi burger”, which is basically a pork pattie with marinade. It was very strange, but not at all bad.

Because the train was almost sold out, Lynn and I had to get first class seats. This is not as bank-breaking as it sounds, because economy tickets are $4, and first class are $10. As Lynn said, very expensive for Korea, but very cheap for America/Canada. Well, when in Korea...

We took the train back, and then I managed to get a taxi to take me to “stadium”, which is a big, free stadium built a block away from the apartment that apparently has a track and a swimming pool, open to the general public. I may go check it out tomorrow during my adventure to the Lotte Mart, which Lynn thinks may have stuff like sheets and pillowcases for my bed. I also need to go shopping again, because apparently living off ramen is bad for you. Who knew?

Day Two of Teaching

Day two of teaching! I’m waking up much later now, which is quite a relief. I shudder to think back to my days of 2 am wake up calls. Bleh. Didn’t do much again this morning... actually, there was an unexpected tragedy in that I streamed some videos at school yesterday, but they randomly disappeared when I flipped open my computer this morning. The ways of technology are a mystery to me.

Friday is a special day at Avalon, because there are two classes instead of three in the morning... except instead of being 50 minutes, they are 80 minutes, so they’re much longer. I watched Sean teach a class on Blackbeard the pirate, which I found hugely entertaining, but his class were utterly bored. He says that they’re his worst class, and I can see why – they don’t pay attention, and they don’t care about the subject! Sean was showing them videos and telling them stories and they didn’t absorb a word.

I had the first class off, though, so I played Tetris battle, which is a game on facebook. It is very fun, and very hectic – I got exhaused playing it, but it was totally worth it! I also picked up some peanut butter from Paris Baguette so I could make a PB+J sandwich... 6400 Won, which is about $6 for a jar of peanut butter! Crazy expensive!!! Ahhhh!

In the afternoon, my classes were really great. Two of them we finished work early, so I had them teach me some Korean. My abysmal memory means I don’t remember any of it, but I did write it down so I can review it later. The last class was fantastic – they are the highest level class, PA, and the four kids are just hilarious. There’s Peter, Bob, Harley, and Eminem. Bob wrote Sacha an essay a few weeks ago, not for school, just for fun, entitled “Why Bob is Handsome”. True story.

After school we went bowling! We hopped a cab to “K2 Sports”, which is a bowling alley and driving range. It wasn’t quite as flashy as say, Palasade, but it was really fun to watch the Koreans bowl. They are very hardcore about it, with wristguards and everything. Nick came out (the British guy who works at the public school), as well as Jade, Lynn, and a name guy, JD. He’s a Korean teacher from Jade and Lynn’s school, and is really nice. Oh, and of course Sacha, Sean, and Jenna came as well. They snuck wine in via water bottles, which I feel was very sneaky.

All in all, an excellent day, and I can’t wait for tomorrow! Booze cruise on the Han river! I’ll probably be doing more sightseeing than boozing, to be honest, but it’s still exciting!!!

First Day of Teaching

Today was my first day of teaching all by myself! I didn’t do much in the morning – mostly watched my downloaded TV shows from yesterday. Oh, but I did go to the store and get a bunch of ramen! I tried one kind in the morning, which was very spicy, and one kind after work, which was... strange. Kind of tasted like seaweed, which is not quite what I expected from ramen, to be honest.

I walked to school on my own today – Sean and Sasha went in early because Sean, as head teacher, had to interview a candidate for another Avalon school. Remember Jade and Lynn, from the air base day? Lynn doesn’t like Korea, so she’s heading home at the end of the semester – therefore, they need someone to replace her. I guess Sean did so well interviewing me that he gets to do all the interviews now! Ha ha.

My first class was LOUD. They bounced balls off the walls and wouldn’t stop shouting. Sasha poked her head in at one point and told them to shut up. I tried my best to keep them quiet, but shouting didn’t really do the trick. I tried turning the lights off, threatening gamgee (lines), and they completely ignored me. Well, at least they got the lesson done. I’ll have to actually follow through on my gamgee threats next time, I guess. Or maybe I should try moving them in their seats. That’s what Sasha did, and it worked wonders.

The next class was a writing class – as was the third, actually – and there were only 3 kids in the class. We were learning about how to edit essays – add details, take out unnecessary sentences, punctuation and capital letters – and they had no idea what I was talking about. I think they understood by the end, but this class is a couple of lessons behind the other writing class I’m now teaching, so I’ll have to try and catch them up. Which is difficult, since they don’t even know what a capital letter is. They do now, though!

Third class, also writing, was back with the loud group again. We did get through the essay-writing portion, but when we had games time at the end, loud loud loud. They also tried to trick me into thinking that they were allowed their cell phones in the last ten minutes of class, which they aren’t, so Sean stuck his head in and glared at them until they stopped. Sigh. One day I shall be feared. Until then, I must simply muddle through the best that I can.

Wolfed down a jam sandwich – yes, jam, because the only place I’ve found that sells peanut butter so far is the Paris Baguette shop near school, and I haven’t bought any yet – and then it was back to class 20 minutes later! I’m starting to see what the teachers were talking about when they said that they needed more breaks. 4:20-7 and 7:20-10 doesn’t sound like that much work – maybe 5.5 hours altogether, but when you’re trying to either stop loud kids from screaming, or make quiet kids talk, plus teach the lesson and be entertaining, it’s exhausting!

The after-dinner classes were better. Well, they are necessarily older, since they’re in middle school, so they were for the most part more respectful of my authority. I’m trying to remember what classes there were... first was a really quiet class, who I made talk to me by pointing at them and saying, “What do you think?” and then they had to talk. Muahahahaha. Second class was writing – I was trying to explain adverb clauses, but I wasn’t quite sure how, so I just gave them a bunch of examples. They did the exercise alright, so I guess that they got it. The last class was way ahead, so we just talked and played games. That went well enough until they started getting loud, but I don’t think we disturbed the other classes overly much.

Then time to trudge back home and recuperate! Teaching wasn’t as bad as I’d first suspected. As long as I prep the lessons, they’re fairly easy to teach. It seems that the hardest part is going to be to either a) get kids to shut up, and b) get kids to speak up. One of the kids in my middle morning class told me about a video from the UK where a person puts a hamster in a blender, and then mixes it up and drinks it. Crafty little kid. When he saw my face, he started laughing, and explained that the second part, the mixing and drinking, wasn’t true. I really like that class. Hopefully I get to keep them!

Tomorrow I’m team teaching with Sean, because the classes are longer for some reason. I don’t know why. It’s all still pretty confusing. I heard talk of possible bowling after work – not sure if I’ll go, considering how miserable I am at bowling. If I’m still coherent after a day of work, I’ll probably go with them! If not, rest and recuperate for the Saturday “booze cruise” and ice bar extravaganza!

Photo Store

Well, my attempts to get more sleep via forcing myself to sleep in proved ultimately unsuccessful. I woke up at 7 am again, which was extremely frustrating, but I got over it by watching various television shows that I streamed at school the previous day. I can’t wait till I get internet so I can start doing that sort of thing on my own time.

Around 1 pm I went on an adventure to the photo store, which is on the same street as Avalon English (the school I work at!). Yung Sun, the secretary who helped me out with the medical exam, gave me a sticky note that said what I needed, so I gave it to the photo shop guy, and he sat me down for the picture. Then he went to his computer and clicked around for a good five minutes. It turns out that they always photoshop pictures in Korea! It’s just the thing to do. So I got my pictures – 8 instead of 2, no idea why – hit up the Lotte Super, and headed back home.

School was both terrifying and fun, because I had to teach all three elementary school lessons. Well, by teach, I mean I started to teach, and then Sasha, Sean, and Jenna would jump in at various intervals to help me out. I think that when it’s just me teaching I’ll do better, because I won’t have someone watching and critiquing everything I do. That way I’ll be able to make mistakes without fearing embarassment/disappointment. I figure I’ll be more by-the-book, like Jenna, for the first couple of months until I get my bearings.

For dinner we went out, because while we usually only get 20 minutes each day at 7 pm, on Wednesdays there’s some sort of deal where the Korean teachers teach all the first classes for middle school, so the foreign teachers get an extra hour. We went to a Korean BBQ place right across the street, where I met Nick. Nick is a foreign teacher working at a public school about 20 minutes away. He’s British, and I quite liked him. He reminded me of Jono, probably because they’re both British! Oh, and the restaurant had free ice cream, which was just plain awesome.

I met some of the highest level kids in the school – Peter, Eminem... I can’t remember the rest. But their spoken English is very good, and they think they’re absolutely hilarious. And for the most part they are. Peter apparently told Sasha that he was born on the moon, which I think is a perfectly legitimate birthplace. They like to joke around, and from what I understand, so long as the joking is in English, and the work gets done, teachers and students can have as much fun as they want.

There are apparently plans on the weekend for Jade’s pre-birthday bash. It will involve a “booze cruise”, which is basically a cruise down the Han river in Seoul, followed by going to an “ice bar”. I think the idea there is that everything is ice themed, although I’ll have to wait and see, obviously!