February 21st- a first look at Korea!

Sunday, February 21- After a long flight/day of traveling, we made it to a hotel and crashed- Sunday, we were picked up by the assistant director Ellie. She brought us to see the school for the first time, the school is beautiful! It really is awesome- we have a play area in the backyard- a huge deck/patio, and crops as you saw before in the pics! :) Ellie is so nice and funny- she really seems great! We got some "homework"- I have to make a lesson plan for tomorrow to present to Ellie, so I just did that- we'll see how it goes! After that, we went to meet 2 of the girls who will continue at the school, Hayley for 1 more year and Diane until July. The food at lunch was okay- better than I thought it was going to be. I tried Kimche, it was too spicy for me though. We had some 3 layer fat bacon type meat which was really good- and then some seasoned pork which I really liked called gaube. We ate them in a lettuce taco sort of manner. There was also rice, eggs, onions (they love onion!!), some peppers (also too spicy for me) and then some special red sauce! :) We cannot pronounce anything! I'm working on- "on-nyong or on-nyong ahn-se-oh" hello and formal hello and "kam-som-ni-da" thank you!

Still having a hard time remembering those words!

We saw our future apartments today- they are really great- and in a nice area. Lots of stuff around us. We saw a lofted apartment, but there are 5 of us, and only 4 apartments in the one building, and the other 1 is across the street; The girls that I will be working with seem great, there is Katie and Jackie from Minnesota, Brandy from Texas and Nicole from Chicago. After we saw the apartments, we went downtown Seoul to a shopping area with Hayley and Diane- they had so many American clothing stores, and the streets were just packed!!! But it was nice to get out and see the city!

More to come! :)