First Week of work

My first 3 days of work have been very different from anything I expected..... I am teaching one kindergarten class that hardly speaks or understands English. I do my best and we play a lot of name matching games. I say dog and they have to find the picture of the dog on the desk. Crazy fun! Oh and I found out that when you say "You're crazy" you are basically calling them retarded...... Who knew... I already called some of my students retarded! Go me! I also a very cute group of kindergarteners that speak very well. I have just been teaching them the months and things like that. I have one super smart class. We always finish our work within like 20 minutes and they want to play games for the rest of the hour. That would not fly with my director. My director, Ms. Lee, has told me several times "More Detail!" for the lesson plans. Does she remember that this is my 3rd day??? Probably not! Anyways I think in a couple of weeks I will have a handle on things and be able to teach without having someone looking over my shoulder. :) I'll keep you posted!

As for non work stuff... I tried to act like a Korean the other night.... I flagged a taxi down at like 5 something in the morning and drunkingly stumbled to my apartment. It's a lot different over here staying up until 5 or 6 as it is back home. Plus the drinking is more intense. I did do the sprinkler in the middle of this big circle of koreans! Go Me! My friends and I are going to go to this bar called Jane's Groove on Saturday. I can't wait it supposed to be a ubber good time!
Last night I went and ate with some co workers Ryan and Christina. They took me to a fast food Korean place. I didn't think it was fast food, but it was really not tasty! The owner was laughing at me and trying to tell me how to eat my food. I guess I was supposed to mix it all together. Sounds not good to me! Plus I still can't use chop sticks! I'm so LAME!!!!!

I'll update you on how I'm doing in a week or so! Until then I love and miss you all.

It's been a week!

Hi Friends! It's been a week since I left Oklahoma and I have to say I'm having an amazing time! I've made some friends which is great and they are all really fun and interesting. A couple of days ago I met with my friend Mike and we went out drinking... Again we went to the noribong to sing. Tons of fun. We tried to find another bar after that, but no one understood us so we called it a night. A FUN NIGHT! Yesterday I went and met my new friend April in Sanbon. We went to a Korean Folk Village which was really interesting. You guys can see my pictures on facebook and myspace. On the subway I met two Korean men who both speak very good English and helped me find my way. We've exchanged information and I'm looking forward to hanging out with my new Korean friends :). Don't worry.... I'll only hang out with them in public places to make sure they aren't weird :) Colin has asked me to come to Kunsan for New Years Eve. Don't know if I'll go or not. We'll see. Anyways.... I will keep you posted!!! Have a Happy New Year! Can you believe it's almost 2009! Where has the time gone?

First Day in Seoul

Well my flight was extremely long! I didn't like that at all.... My first night in Seoul I stayed in a very tiny room at the Sam Woo. They have heated wood floors! Crazy! Then the next day the head teacher, Mr. Moon, picked me up and took me to the school to meet the director of the school, Ms. Lee. Then we came to my apartment. Lots of cleaning to do!!!! My next door neighbor Kristina is from Norman Oklahoma so we plan to watch the game in January. Colin is here so he helped me rearrange my room until I found an arrangement that suited me. Kristina offered to show us around so we thankfully accepted. She showed me the local marts and restraunts. Kristina then introduced me to Susan(the teacher I'm replacing) and April (the fun loving karaoke girl...more to come). We walked the short 4 and extremely cold blocks to Lotte World! No big deal its only the largest indoor/outdoor amusement park known to man kind! My first meal was amusingly lasagna :) We walked around the different shops and the girls showed Colin and I the different foods.

After walking around we came back to my apartment to unpack and then later went and had Christmas Dinner at a place that Colin likes to call....Beef on a Leaf. I'll let ya know what the real name is for it when I can remember! The people at the dinner were Kristina, April, Rachel, Colin and I. Rachel is a former employee of J.M. English School and she is Korean. We played some games after dinner involving the very popular So-Ju (which taste like rubbing alcohol) and had a couple of Cass (Korean Miller Lite). The games were fun and I think April and I drank most of the So-Ju. After dinner we went to a little place where you rent a room for 20 dollar and have your own private karaoke session! There is a name for it....but I don't remember....maybe Naibang. I'll let ya know! It was so much fun! Colin got pretty wasted and made April and I sing Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas!". Finally we returned home and fell into a drunken slumber.... Which only lasted 6 hours for me because I'm so messed up with the time zone!!

Anyways I hope that you all are enjoying my blog....I'll try not to put so many details in the next one! I miss you all and Merry Christmas!

1 more week!

Ok....Let's try this again! Hello friends... I have created this blog so that you can follow my journey to Asia... South Korea for those of you that don't know what country I'm going to. Anyways I hope to see you all on Saturday at the Ugly Christmas Sweater/Going Away party!