Wednesday, June 4, 2008

My typical weekday in Korea

6:00 wake up to classical songs done with electric guitar played from my computer alarm clock.
6:40 Actually get up this time after snoozing for 40 min.
Shower
Make some cereal and a smoothie
get dressed
eat and check the news/e-mail
7:55 Head off to the train.
8:15 arrive at my sports park subway exit
8:25 arrive at school after a brief walk through the irrigation areas of the local farms.
8:30-9:10 mess around on the internet, maybe copy some worksheets for my first class.
9:10-12:40 usually I'll have a couple of classes before lunch. About 40% of the time I will find out that one of my classes for the day was either canceled or rescheduled to conflict with a normally scheduled class. My classes are 45 minutes long.
12:40 Korean lunch. We load up our metal prison trays with the meal of the day. Every meal consists of some kind of:

Kimchi - Spicy pickled cabbage or turnip
Side dish A
Side dish B
Rice
Soup

1:40-4:30
Teach my other 2 classes with a lot of prep time in between. Once a week one of my co-teachers will tell me 1 hour before class that I need to make up a random lesson because she already taught the part of the book she told me to prepare for.
5:00 Hit the store near my house because I am a man and I never remember to get everything at the store.
5:30
Push ups and sit ups while watching an episode of some random TV series I've downloaded. Right now it's the wire.
6:30 Dinner, usually homemade including rice or eggs (or both).
7:30 a little guitar.
8:30
chores
9:00
One more episode of TV series or a movie while I let my brain rest.
10:00 kill mosquitoes*
10:05 go to bed.

*Our apartment building has a weird mosquito infestation. I close all of the windows but they still make it into my apartment. I discussed this with a couple of neighbors and they have the same problem. I think they come in through the floor drains of the laundry and bath rooms. I've started covering the drains with garbage can lids and it has gotten a little better.

This is just a mid week day. I'll often wander around my city and eat out or hit the street market. Weekends I'm usually at the beach playing in the sun.

If you would like another perspective on Korea here are a couple of my friends blogs:

Skye, a girl I went to OSU with, she lives in Gwanju which is a couple hours away:
http://skyesunshine.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

Dave, my buddy that I came with. He doesn't update it very often because he is lazy and not as awesome as me.

http://www.ilovedavenunn.blogspot.com/

He has some good pictures, follow the link at the bottom.

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