Life in the Tuna Can...

So one of my friends here the other day brilliantly came up with the term "tuna can" for our flats over here. It's totally appropriate especially for mine because when I look out my window all I see is the wall to another building. Haha, tuna can. It's perfect.

So today I started school and I didn't get to teach because it's their first day of the school year so there were alot of different things going on. In middle school over here it's different because you stay in the same classroom the whole time and the teachers come to you...and your schedule differs every day. The kids are in class from 8:30 until 4:30 straight which is not that bad considering in high school they get to school around 7 am and leave around 11 and sometimes 12...at night. That's how seriously they take academics. Anyways though, I have a total of 22 different classes a week which also means that I plan ONE lesson a week and teach it 22 times. Saweeet. It also means though that since classes have 35 students at the minimum, I'm going to have around 760 students in total. Considering I can't remember birthdays I highly doubt I'll remember each and every name...

Since I travel from classroom to classroom I have an office and it's pretty tight because it looks out over the city. I was pretty much cooped up in there all day though and before I left I walked into the administrative offices and when I did everyone stood up and yelled "Washington!" So funny. One guy even got out his English translation book and was trying to talk to me so I pulled my Korean one out. We had the most unsuccessful conversation ever...he asked me at one point what I did over the weekend and my response was "orange". I had meant to say "shop". What a noob.

P.S. the pic on the top of my blog is of my mini brother and sister, Christian and Hannah. They're wonderful and one of the reasons it's so cool that I'm getting to experience this is because Christian is actually adopted from South Korea. He's the most wonderful kid on the planet and I'm really hoping I can get him over here.

Last thing, I made a friend who owns this photo shop down the street the other day and he speaks super English. So tomorrow he's going to put all my pics on a disc so I can actually upload them onto here and you guys can see what it's like on the other side of the world!
Annyonghi! (That means goodbye...if you can say it then you officially know as much Korean as I do).