The power of sharades.

So my (lazy) right eye has been acting up--limiting my vision and giving me monster headaches. So I decided I needed to get an eye exam. But how to do that when my knowledge of Korean is greetings, apologies and the word delicious.
So when one of my classes was being lazy and didn't want to do their work I made one of my students write down what was happening with my eye, (while the other student wrote down Korean bad words---but that's another story).
I get to the optometrist, hand him my note and he brings me to the exam room. I sit there, he adjusts all that crazy machinery and I stare at a screen with numbers on it. With hand gestures: holding up fingers according to the number on the screen, a waving index finger for "no" and thumbs up for "yes/good" we were able to find a better prescription.
He punched the old lenses out and put in the new ones and in about fifteen minutes the world became clear again.
I wasn't mentally ready to pick out new frames; it's always such a process, maybe later in the year.

Cheers!