Friday, March 14, 2008

I made it!

It is crazy!!! I taught 2 classes today after barely sleeping last night. It was rough, but the kids make it fun.
Here were some of the comments:
"You are very handsome."
"You look like Leonardo Dicaprio."
"Do you have a girlfriend?"
"Hi, I love you. Give me candy."
I'm in an area called Deokcheon on the outskirts of Busan. I'm basically living in a downtown area. It's pretty fun, Dave and I roamed around the crazy plaza area tonight. We're at a PC bang using the internet right now, I won't have it in my apartment until early next week. I will post some pictures of my apartment once I have internet at home. It's decent, the whole bathroom is the shower too. I have a partial view of some kind of river and a huge indoor ice skating rink.
Everyone is very nice and my co-teacher Suni has been very helpful. I went to the doctor for the longest, weirdest health check today. I would wait outside of a doctors room for 10-15 minutes for a check up that would take literally one minute. I now have a bank account and will hopefully have a cell phone in a month or so.
The English level of my students is way below what I expected. They barely understand me unless I ask very simple questions. The level of the teachers is not much better. I think the curriculum is up in the air so this will be a good oppportunity for me to try a few things out and see how they work. All in all this should be an easy way to boost my ESL teaching resume in a fairly non-stressful environment.
Monday they are having an assembly to introduce me to the whole school. I feel like a celebrity over here.
Tomorrow I think we'll take the train to the coast.

Tony

3 comments:

amylouise said...

Way to go Tony! How cool that you followed through with your dream and are there experiencing it! I'll be reading your blog to see how it is. Who knows, maybe I'll end up doing the same! :) Congrats!

Unknown said...

T . O..

So glad to hear that its gone fairly smooth so far. Kids talked about you all the way home, " I miss TONY!"

Love you, Stay in touch.

DAD

Katy said...

I am glad you made it safely!! I am anxious to "read" lots of stories! Take care and keep in touch!

<3 Katy