One more small step

as i write these little stories for you i have to catch up to where i am now. so please forgive me if you feel like i am missing a detail.

my first week was interesting. i spent most of my time observing. which to Koreans means watching other teachers for a few hours so you can become like them and teach the way youngdo wants. luckily for me that wasnt to difficult. youngdos methods are all about getting the students to talk and do tests. easy enough yes?

the students are no different then students back home. they are good bad and even ugly. i like most of the students. some of them were a little quiet at first as i was the tallest guy there and well, the newest so they didnt know what to expect from me.

oh here is a little bit of story for you. my second day at youngdo, although i a wearing a shirt and tie with some dress pants and decent shoes, i feel like crap. after the first break i am sitting in the staff room and trying to remember everyone's name and who is cooler then the guy with the headphones on. when i am asked to come out of the staff room and enter the foyer of youngdo to be greeted by about 25 students with cameras and cell phones looking for that good shot of my weary face. i though it was a bit odd that no one was stopping this, but i just picked up my step and made a quick pace to the nearest class room and sat down hoping the heard would go to their respective classes. this was not what i wanted on my second day in Korea. but hey a good story yes?

so back to teaching. it is good and it is fun. i just finished doing about 30 report cards which i though i would never do in my life. but here i am, half a sleep and ready for bed.

Korea has been good to me so far. foreigners are instant friends unless they make a point of not talking to anyone and well lets just say that they become the brunt of most jokes. dont be a jerk in Korea and you will never have trouble making friends that was my week one lesson from a few teachers.

so the teachers i met are very nice, all except one who wears nothing but soccer jerseys and oddly enough he carries the soccer attitude as well. at least the stereotypical one anyway. so the staff consist of two south africans, four canadians, an austrailian two americans and one korean. it is a good group. i am very lucky to have these people as coworkers. they have helped me in many ways. i only hope i can do the same one day. the pictures you see are of my class having a little bit of fun, enjoy.