Work and Iksan...

Teaching has been pretty hectic. I attempted to make a posting on the Friday night, but after a week of teaching children how to speak English, had left me with little ability to do so myself… which is why this has taken me so long.

Everyone at work is really nice and we are all trying to figure out how and what exactly, to teach. I have 7 different classes that I teach. All of the classes are broken into levels, level 1 being the lowest, then level 2, level 3, and so forth. The younger kids definitely offer some challenges, as they can be extremely hyper and get very excited about games. I think it will just take same time to get used to each other. Thankfully, I have no horror stories from my first week of work. Trevor on the other hand, may have a bit more to say about his first week.

For the most part South Korea has been pretty fun. Our meals are often similar to a guessing game, since neither Trevor nor I have quite mastered how to speak or read Korean yet. When ordering food at restaurants we usually just pick a few items and hope for the best. We can usually recognize some dishes, but have also had a few instances of unknown foods, all of which had been a great part of the experience!!

Contrary to my other postings, we have been experiencing other things than just Korean food. On Friday night, we took part in poker night with some of the other foreigners (Yes, even I played!! Trevor taught me how to play during the week so I wouldn’t have to just sit there and watch). For my first time playing, I think I did pretty well; I even won a few hands (although I didn’t know it most of the time… haha).

Just this weekend all of the teachers went to Jeonju to see Hanook Village. It is a small village of little shops and historical monuments. We went to one shop where we were able to learn how to make some traditional Korean paper artwork called Hanji Konge. The man who was teaching us is currently a student trying to make it as an artist. He taught us about Korean art and told us about his own artwork. He gave us his email so that we can possibly go to some of his at exhibits.
While in Junju we had an amazing lunch!! We had about 4 main dishes, some of which were octopus stew (yes, even I ate the octopus!!) and bulgogi (which is meat and vegetables… a little spicy!!), and maybe 10 side dishes(kimchi, seaweed, mushrooms, other vegetables, etc). The entire table was covered with food!! We barely had enough room for our drinks.

Overall... so far so good!! (I will post some pictures soon, for some reason I was unable to do it when i posted this.)