Going to the Movie Theater ^__^

Entrance to the theater...

Dinner at home...yummy

Negative externalities and the highway problem

When we decide to drive on the highway we simply think a faster or more efficient way to get from one place to another. However, negative externalities result from our decision to take the highway such as making others’ bear the cost of us taking space on the highway. Many economists recommend a way to separate those who must take the highway from those who are simply free riding on those who bear the costs (anyone but the driver). Obviously this is not a very popular idea in California where we love to drive our cars everywhere for no reason at all. However, in Korea I have found a different situation. Paying for your costs on others by your presence on the highway is a reality. Drivers must pay fees depending on how much they use the highway and this is detected through booths as you exit and enter different cities. This makes drivers think twice when deciding to travel far, and force more often than not, efficient driving decisions. As a result, there is a very noticeable lack of traffic in Korea unless you’re in Seoul (where 1/4 of the Korean population in Korea lives).

Going to the Movie Theater

As I have made apparent, I am living in the countryside. This will be obvious by my account of the evening. After school, the Kindergarten teacher, her daughter, and I decided to go to a movie theater to watch a movie. This decision was no simple one because the nearest movie theater is one hour away. Imagine driving one hour just for the simple, common act of watching a movie at the cinema hahaha. Anyways, it made me appreciate the movie very very much.

Complaining

It’s been over a month and a half since I started teaching, and I have become very apparent of the complainers in my class. Just like many adults, they make it their job to find something to complain about. Whether it’s about me somehow conspiring to make their team lose at games, not playing their favorite movie clips, giving them jelly candies instead of chocolates, not choosing them when it’s apparent that others need a chance to participate, and much more, the famous complainers desire, or perhaps require, something to complain about. Instead of looking at the bigger picture of the class, the game, or the lesson, they focus on anything that seems not to meet their own desires. I say that a test of character is what you do with what you have, not what you start with. Sometimes, I just want to take the complainers aside and tell them to stop being so selfish to even think that I would take the time to make their teams lose or devoid them of happiness. Ok, my venting (or can be seen as complaining hahah) session is over.