The Beginning

Things have finally settled down and Aaron and I have started teaching this week. My entire weekend was spent going to PC bangs (PC rooms) to finish my four lesson plans for Monday and Tuesday. Aaron did not have to plan (or at least he was not told to plan) any lessons, so he partially helped me and surfed the web. The PC bangs are used to play games at such as Counterstrike, Maple Story, etc., so there was no Microsoft Word. I ended up using Prezi for my Canadian culture class, which is quite difficult to use compared to Powerpoint and not as versatile. All my rushing and planning was to naught as I ended made my presentations too long and have yet to actually finish any presentation. In fact, I had to split my lessons into two separate lessons as it was a bit too much for my class.
Today, in my grade 1 class, two of the four students were sick, so we canceled the lesson and ended up watching an episode of Fringe that had Korean subtitles. I'm not complaining ^-^
Tonight, there is a teachers meeting dinner at a restaurant somewhere (I am not sure where as I do not get told everything).

I brought maple cookies to school today and it seemed to be a big hit. Everyone liked the cookies and a teacher asked me if I knew whether or not I could buy it here in Korea (I have no clue!). I think I will ask my mother to send us more cookies since we did not bring enough (we had no clue we would be teaching at so many schools). For lunch, everyone is always telling me to eat more (I really can't@_@). They think I don't take enough food even though I do already eat a lot. Today, one of the teachers even brought more food over to me and put it on my tray. As for eating lunch, everyone pays around 1,000 to 2300Won to eat cafeteria food in schools. In Ugok, everyone sits at the same table, but is separate by gender in half. At Gaejin middle school, I sit with the female middle school teachers while at the elementary school, I sit with my co-teacher and her student. Aaron apparently sits with the female teachers in one school while sitting with his co-teacher and students in another.

Yesterday, we ended up going to a restaurant called Tudari and Aaron ordered for us by pointing out pictures (we love it when they have pictures on menus). We ate a bunch of meat and veggies on skewers although we were not really sure what most of the meat was-.-;

I finally took the bus with Aaron yesterday and today. It was really crowded and instead of everyone lining up, seniors rush to the doors and the rest of us gather behind them. I had my bag held by someone who was sitting. It is common in Korea for someone who is sitting to ask a person standing if they want their bags held.