At this point, we’ve been around town enough to make some obersvations about the people around us and one of them is this: children are everywhere! Whenever we go out shopping, to restaurants, or even just walking around, we see tons of kids all over the place. Seriously, I’m beginning to wonder if there aren’t more people here under the age of 12 than over (at least in our area). Now, usually the prescence of youth isn’t something particularly noteworthy, but we’re starting to feel a somewhat bombarded by the little buggers. Most families we see have at least two kids, and we almost never see a couple walking down the street without a little pipsqueak in tow.
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So, something weird is happening between my laptop and the wireless connection we’ve been stealing over the last couple weeks. Needless to say, we won’t be able to get online from home until I figure out what’s going on and how to fix it, and therefore posting has been and will be a litle sparse over the next few days.
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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
Today was the first time we went to work at Kids On Campus, which looks like it’s a great situation. The school is modern, clean, and very nice looking, and the kids are beyond cute. We’ll each be getting our own class of kindergartners (and our own classroom) starting next Monday, so we’ll have this week to learn names and get up to speed on our teaching responsibilities. The kindergartners will come every day to the same class all year round, while the older students rotate between teachers each afternoon, so we’ll only see them a couple times a week. The teachers and administrators we’ve met have all been great and very willing to help, which is good because we’re going to need it.
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