first day

i have a feeling this will be a long post.. so here it goes!

i started classes [knu college lecture classes] last week. on the last day of daegu orientation, i found out that i must work mon,tue,wed to match my co teacher's schedule. well thanks to that, i had to drop many of the classes that i wanted to take before coming to korea. which means that i now have to take History of Korea. taught in english. by a korean professor. oh joyyy. well, since i wanted to take something other than history, i sat in on couple other lectures, but no luck- education classes i sat in on were for 4th years [studying for the teacher cred. exam] and phd students OTL. well, so i missed the first 2 lectures of hist. of korea, and hopefully the professor won't be too mean about that...

moving on, i have been doing lots of shopping! of course, i want to buy more stuff :D but i will have to wait until i get my first paycheck... or until my flight reimbursement comes [this week!] >:D mm, on a side note, i think i am turning more feminine here. like so many people wear pastel pink frilly dresses on daily basis. don't worry, i haven't changed 180, but i do have more blouses and skirts now [since i don't want to wear just Ts and jeans while teaching]. and i don't feel out of place wearing skirts here in korea lol.

ooh! a random fact about korea: there are no buttons you need to push before crossing. the lights just turn green for pedestrians where ever. mm and another fact? drivers don't care about pedestrians at all. i thought cars had to stop, AT LEAST at the designated cross walking zone [where the painted white lines are], but no~ us walkers have to run for our lives when a car is approaching. & i think it's worse in daegu than in seoul :/

wow, this is getting long. but now onto my first day of teaching!
after planning what to do with my coteach on sunday [and having made my super awesome self-intro presentation beforehand], i wasn't nervous about my first day. i thought, i've already taught kids before. besides, how bad can they be? well, they weren't too bad. but handling EIGHTEEN 1st&2nd graders as my first class, while pretending not to understand a word in korean, that was a little hectic. my second class [3rd&4th] and third class [5th&6th] were much nicer since the number of students did not exceed eight in both classes. i got around to do everything planned for the day in the later 2 classes, including learning the students' english names.i did get some not-so-common names like apple, wiw [will?], pheonix, shine, happy, super mario and peach. one of the girls wanted to be called cutie and i got her to change it to katie, and there was a little boy who said his name was daisy, but i persuaded him to change it to david :)

Now! i should be looking up more alphabet song videos, but i decided to just write this post since i haven't written in the past week. at this very moment my laundry is being washed [i know how to do my own laundry now! ooh and ironing too!], and i really should get rid of my giant suitcase that is sitting right next to my bed [the room is too small D:]. i have no idea where i will put my second luggage [that's at my aunts house atm] which contains my fall & winter [well, winter in cali] clothes. have i mentioned? my closet is one of those sports lockers that football players have. perfect for stuffing all of my clothes right? laskjf mm and i haven't been able to put anything on my wall yet, since the tape keeps on slipping off D: i gotta get stronger tape that isn't sold at the dorm convenience store... ooh another thought on dorm- dorm food isn't too good. well, i guess i can't really judge since i've only eaten there 3-4 times, but it wasn't too good then. but i will actually wake up early tomorrow and try their breakfast for the first time!!

now that i'm thinking of dorms, i have much more things to write haha. so, i share room w/ another knu student & we get along :). she's a grad student here, so she's out most times, doing research in the labs [&other times, hanging out w/ her bf (;]. i have a curfew [1am-5am] and she said that if im late, she can just open the door for me since grad students don't need no curfew :D. the doors! the doors to the dorms have a vein recognition system, so i enter my code, then put my palm up to the scanner thingy! i thought that was pretty cool since i've never seen it at another place.

this is a super long post, compared to my other ones right? kudos to you if you read all of it :D
now, i promise to upload pictures onto fb by tomorrow [gotta be a good teacher & do more lesson planning now!] & hopefully i will be back soon to give more details about my life here in daegu, korea.

OOH! I ALMOST FORGOT! going to a hallyu concert next sunday :D
it's FREE for foreigners like meee & kpop groups like 2pm, 2am, kara, miss a, beast, 4minute, afterschool, &sondambi are coming! hehe i have no idea how i will be able to teach & attend lectures the next day, but i'm excited! sigh, my life never seems to take a break! haha