Day 2

I promise that all my blogs will be named something more creative...well maybe not all.

So I have been here for about 36 hours... and I have gone to work already.

It is 6:06 am (still jetlagged), I will probably have cheezits or some snack for breakfast and it's too dark to see the weather, but I'm guessing cooooold. :)

So yesterday I observed all day, and not that much exciting stuff happened, but some durn funny stuff did, so I will give you the downlow on that. My first class to observe was some deliriously rambunctious 5 year olds. They were practicing the words "I have", "I see", "teddy bear" and "robot". Looking ahead, I will be (on Monday) teaching them about the color Pink - not the singer - and "I want" and "doll". I think this will be my favorite class. The teacher I watched was hilarious and the kids really seemed to like her. In another class, they were playing a drawing game. They are all about games here and the kids really react when you say the words "quick game". So they were playing pictionary and the 10-year old kid came to the board and obviously drew alcohol. The other 10-year olds didn't guess what it was, so the teacher asked. The kid replied "soju" - Korean alcohol. The teacher just said "Ok, well next time English words, ok?" Pretty entertaining that a 10-year old is thinking about alcohol at 4:00 in the afternoon. I know I was. Another kid was trying to ask a teacher what english was for a word. He was getting flustered and she didn't understand, so finally he acted it out. He was being crucified on a cross. Another kid came up and hammered his hands and he even let his head droop when he was dead. I was pretty much horrified. The teacher guessed "You are Jesus?" then the kid got really flustered and drew a cross on the board. So the word was cross. At this point the kids let out a string of Korean and the word cross. I have no idea what the conversation was about, but it's seems deep and complicated.

For lunch I ate alone and confidently (after Thursday's plane ride) got fairly large portions. It turned out to be spicy cooked squid and kimchi. I washed it down with a starburst. For those keeping score: Cassie 1, Korean food 1. These two things are definitely acquired tastes and I probably wasted more than I ate.

So at the end of my first day (which was 10:00 pm) I went home and crashed. But now here I am awake again at 5:30.... I never really understood jetlag until now. I feel ok about teaching classes and have started to try to think of games to both control the ADHD kids and make the shy guys talk. Any suggestions would be adored.

My apartment: I only have one word - small. The picture below is my entire room. The whole thing. The glass closet is a little weird and I need to get something to cover it, b/c I feel pretty exposed between that glass closet dooor and the window in the closet... The bathroom - which most of you knew what worrisome to me - is normal. Delightfully westernized. The kitchen is small and I'm pretty sure the refridgerator is about the size of the fridge in the motorhome. there is a common area with a couch and chair and tv and that's about it...

This is the view from my closet window in the direction of the school. Crazy, no?

One more thing for you - little known fact: Dwight the travelling gnome loves the view, watched me walk to work and hopes he gets to go to school with me one day.