So, we’ve officially been in Korea for over a week now and are starting to get settled in some ways, and are far from settled in others. After spending most of the weekend unpacking, shopping, cleaning, and organizing, our apartment is definitely feeling much more like a home. All we need now are chairs (seriously, we have none of any kind), air conditioning, and real utilities (like internet). There’s a new teacher at KoC who started just today without any training whatsoever, so we’re glad we’ve got that week under our belt before jumping off the deep end at school.

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We haven’t gotten a chance to travel very far (read: more than 3 blocks between home and work), but we’ve taken a few shots of the streets around our apartment as well as some photos of the outside of our school. We live in an area of Yongin called Suji and we’re sure it has everything we could ever want from a decent size city…if only we could read the signs.  See for yourself: Read on

We’ve posted some photos of our apartment in Yongin. More photos of the city and our school to come soon

So we had our first full day at KoC  today, and I got a real taste of what having my own classroom will be like. It’s been a little frustrating trying to  get adjusted and start planning lessons. Nothing is really laid out simply for us and we’ve had to do a lot of digging to figure out where the last teacher left off.  For example, we have been given a packet of information with a monthly lesson plan guideline ( a map of what should be completed each month, compiled by the teacher’s assistants) as well as this week’s lesson plan (completed by the teachers), but when I sat down today and compared the two, I discovered that my kids seem to be at least a month ( probably more) behind.

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