What I have learned this week....

What have I learned this week......

I learned that I am very last minute when it comes to teaching and I do my best lessons when they are spur of the moment. I learned that many things happen when you least expect them too. Sometimes its good, sometimes its bad, sometimes its just annoying :) I learned that lately I have loved being on my own, and doing things alone. I learned that pretty much 80 percent of the koreans on the subway are watching TV on their cellphones. I learned to buy the right amount of wall paper before I start putting it up. I learned that I get very defensive when people try and critique my lessons when they didnt see the entire thing. I learned how to take the bus to school in the morning. I learned that my new LG phone friend's name is CJ. I learned that my "taxi korean" is better than ever!! (this means speaking korean to a taxi driver by the way.) I learned that when I dont have money is when i need to spend it the most.

Oh the pic above is from a store I went into on friday night. They are cupcakes for "white day" now white day is the second of the valentine day holidays. Valentines day the girl gives something to the guy. White day the guy gives somethign to the girl. So let me tell ya there were LOTS of women walking around with big teddys bears and flowers and candy and chocolate on saturday. Yikes!!! Koreans are in LOVE with LOVE!! Im surprised they didnt bust our their couple tee's too.

Yesteday was the big st paddys day celebrations here in Seoul. basically every foreinger went to Hyewa drank in public places and cleared all convienence stores out of beer. It was a spectical indeed. Than every single one of those drunken fools piled into two different bars in Seoul. It was mayham. but i did have a killer outfit!! and thats always a plus.

Next weekend me and some girls are apparently going down south to this "fighter pilot" party. Bunch of hawt fighter pilots, long train ride, crazy antics.. YEAH i think i'll go :)

I seriously can not believe that Ive only been here for 2 weeks. It feels like I honestly never left. There are so many things I want to do. Today I am going to Insadong to check out the sights. have a little walk around Seoul with a friend I think.. it seems like its sunny so it should be good.

Talk to ya later :)

The NeW Me....

So.... Before I start my update I will say this... At the end of my time here in Seoul I will own about 50 million wigs!!! Yes we all know my obsession with wigs. but the ones here are soo much more fun and so much less money! The picture above is of me last night where i wore my new blue wig to a 80's party. It was a hit and If i could I would wear that thing every day. Oh i also got myself a pair of fake perscription glasses.. you know the ones that make you look smart? Anyways in a nutshell.. the above picture is what I wish I could look like every day. THE END!

So this week was intense.. spent a lot of money on needs that come up in the first month of living somewhere... which means I am going to be broke in a couple weeks for sure! Also I got my first case of food poisoning.. UGH!! not that you want to know but on monday night I was up all night puking and got about one hour sleep. I than went into work the next day feeling TERRIBLE. it was the day before the kids came so I literally had to be there.Anyways other than 2 days of gross sickness my first week was good. My class is called Onyx class and the kids are really smart! they use full sentences are are really eager to follow rules!! I call them my little robots :) I have a feeling this year wont be too stressful on the behaviour front. My favorite little one so far is Andrew. He is soo cute and totally a free spirit. We were playing a game in gym class and he told hte whole class.."im just too good for this game" I laughed so hard.. hes is super adorable. I have 7 girls and 2 boys in my class.

Okay sorry its short but I am heading to Costco...
later dudes :)

Im Here!!!

Okay so this is going to be short and sweet cause I have to work tomorrow but.. lets just say my first few days in seoul have been a whirl wind!!!

got to my new apt at 8:30 ish on thursday night.. Jen met me at the airport and i am so glad she did. She speaks Korean so it made my trip much easier. after a 15 hour trip you just dont want to think. So than we automatically went out for food and met my friend victoria who gave me a hair dryer and a blanket to sleep with. My room is super cute and it has a side room that i am using for my closet. So can I say walk in closet!!??

My roomate is great his name is chris and hes been helping me out a lot. Im not used to having someone around who will do things for you. So when i start pushing a wardrobe across my room alone, it kicks in that i can probably ask my 6 foot something roomie to help. haha.

So my first day in korea lasted from 7:30am to 1:30am. I was determined to beat jet lag, and honestly I think I did!! I got up and went to my school. Which is totally another blog cuase this place is amazing! Got there and met two of my co-workers who are from England. One from Burmingham and the other from London. They were great and they were asked to take me to the hospital for my "health check". We spent the day walking around Seoul and having loads of fun. My medical check was unpleasant to say the least but it had to be done. they checked my ears, eyes, teeth, blood and anything else you could think of.after this we went back to the school where i met my korean teacher assitant. Her job is to help me in the classroom. She was decorating my class for me. I will have to probably change some stuff tomorrow cuase shes very "linear" and I am definetly not. So we wil have to mix up the class a bit. Hope shes okay with that since she was probably working all weekend. eeep! So than i went out to dinner with Mike and Luke my new friends. We had some killer Galbi. mmmm korean bbq!!
After dinner i went over to my friends house where we drank sangrea and played rock band. I met a bunch of new people and it was such a great time.

The next day I had to get up reasonably early to go see my frineds old apt and steal some supplies for our apt. It went well and we picked out some stuff. My first saturday in korea was spent watching a movie in my bed. I basically just wanted a night to chill out since I had been going and going since i came. It was nice.

Today Chris and I moved half of the apt into our place. This may sound easy.. well it wasnt. We had to drag furniture, plates,cups, blankets and anything else you could think of up and down the little korean hills of iteawon. I got a good work out to say the least and I know my muscles are going to kill tomorrow. Than my new friend Mike came to see me and he came with me to Emart where I was going to get some stuff for my room. We ended up walking around Seoul having some kimbap, and going to a DVD Bang in meoyong-dong. than we came back he helped me rearrange my room and we played rock band with chris in his room. It was a full day but totaly fun!!!

I am having a great time so far and its only been a couple days. This is such a good thing for me. I am happy and dont feel culture shock at all. I feel so comfortable here its as if i never left. I have found some great new friends already and it looks like things are going to be good. I wil take some pics of our apt once its al purdy.

gunna go to sleep its my 2nd day of school.

love ya all.... having a blast!!