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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Our employers finally sent them to us yesterday after several problems with scheduling and name spellings (it’s Haskins, not HaskinGs, thank you very much) . We leave Detroit on Sunday, August, 25th at 2:25pm and arrive in Tokyo approximately 14 hours later. We have a two hour layover in Tokyo and then a 3 hour flight to Seoul (Incheon International Airport). We should reach the Republic of Korea around 10:30pm (local time) in the evening. This means we lose a Monday, but we think it will be worth it.

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We almost didn’t come to Philadelphia. The thing about Philly is that it isn’t really on anyone’s travel radar and it often gets overshadowed by bigger cities to the north and south. Yet neither Greg nor I had ever been to the city of brotherly love and it was halfway between New York and DC so we thought, why not?

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