First Day of School Completed

Been up since 4am this morning. Daytona 500 was interesting to watch online. Less commercials and only the good ones (that involve Carl and Ryan :)). Anyways, was totally disappointed in the turn out of the race. Rain! How freakin crappy!!! No worries. We have a whole season ahead for the boys to come back. I'm actually liking Ryan working with Smoke. Smoke has a hard kiss my ass attitude that totally works with Ryan's. If you don't believe me, check out some of the main articles on nascar.com from this past weekend in Daytona.

Ok, back to Korea. Left apartment around 1pm to head to school. FREEZING HERE! Holy crapola! Walked the short 10 minutes to the school. Stopped in at a Korean store to pick up a hairbrush and scissors. Random I know. When I pulled out my phrase book at the store to tell the sales lady thank you, she busted out laughing when I said it. I totally have to work on this whole language thing. Left there and went to Korean bank to get my currency changed. Only a little bit (no worries mom...im budgeting! Haha!). Then tried to find my way to the school. I say tried because all I was told was to look for the sign for the school and go up the stairs. Well, the first stairs I tried sent me into the bank. Then the bank sent me to the dentist on the second floor. YIKES!! No drills please. Then I finally made it up the right stairs to the school.

I got to school and got my schedule. Which not suprisingly is different than what my contract says, but I'm negotiable. Especially when she says she will pay me overtime. Anyways, for those of you who care, I work M/W/F 2pm-9:20pm (classes don't start til 3:30pm) and T/TH 2pm-8:20pm (and again no classes til 3:30pm). Not bad either. I only teach 6 classes on M/W/F and 4 classes on T/TH. The bad part about the school is probably the curriculum. Everything is straight from the textbook. Ugh! I teach kids aged 8 years old to 15 years old. My smallest class is literally 2 students and my largest is my last class of the night at 10 students. The classes I teach are: phonics, reading comprehension, english memorization, and conversational english. Today I taught out of the book a little and also taught my 8 year olds how to play "I-Spy", and my 12 year olds how to do the "Hokey Pokey". It was great! Not much else to say about the school hours though. I was tired cause I have been up since 4am, but I don't feel it so thats a good thing.

Now better things. Went with Mikel out to dinner for (shocker) my first trip to Korean food. Bulgolgi, some kind of green grassy looking salad, hot sauce, and kimchi, and of course Korean Pepsi. Excellent dinner. Luckily Mike has been here in Korea for awhile so he ordered for us. Thank God. I could have been having dog and never known it. Saving that for next time. Haha! Oh and on the way home Mike grabbed some Milkis which is a Korean milk soda that tastes exactly like Orange Creamsicles. Good times!

Off tomorrow to the hospital for drug testing and all that good stuff. Then home to change for school and back to another day of teaching. Hope it wasn't too boring of a read for ya'll. Sending my love to you all in Arizona, Texas, and Tennessee. Oh FYI- email me for address to the school to send my mail. I don't trust it being delivered here to my apartment. Later all.