And the real work begins

So 2 full days of work behind me and its not been too bad, although definitely challenging but it will get easier. I have two kindergarten classes in the morning, 7yr olds (in Korea, 6 everywhere else) and they're actually pretty good kids. I teach them phonics, talking, writing, we alternate math and science/social studies every other day - really simple stuff, and I can give them worksheets to color in and draw on which will occupy them for a while. We also sometimes do a song (which they love) or a game at the end (hangman, simon says stuff like that - quasi educational). We then get lunch at the school, I get a 2 and a half hour break (talor just an hour and a half but shes done an hour earlier) and then 4 classes in the afternoon with older kids which is better because they're calmer but it doesn't necessarily mean that they're better at english, in fact I have a class of 10 yr olds that are worse than my kindergarteners. What also sucks is we don't really get much instruction on what to do, one of my classes we don't have the text yet so Talor and I have been struggling a bit on how to teach science/social studies for 50 minutes without really knowing what level to teach at and what level english the students speak but after two days we're getting a good idea of what to do and textbooksfor that class will be in next week. Whats also really good is our classes are really small, supposedly they will get bigger but my biggest class is 7 kids and they are 10 years old, my smallest class has 3 kids and Talor has a class with one kid!! This will change but its not too bad for now. The first full day was definitely pretty chaotic for everybody in fact and everything has been a little disorganized but hopefully it will get better.

So we finally got to meet the other teachers and they seem really cool, 2Americans and 1 Canadian which is a little rare since most of the foreigners we've met so far have been Canadian or British. They seem to be good people. We went out with one of them Friday night, had an awesome meal followed by quite a drunken night around Jeonju, although very close to where we live in Seo Shin Dong (thats what the neighborhood is called). Saturday was a relaxing affair and Talor and I spent most of the day in bed hung over watching movies. Sunday was Talors birthday of course although due to our very limited cash flow it was not quite as memorable as I would have liked it to have been but we had a good time, we went out to Deepin bar (a popular bar for westerners) and played poker with a bunch of our new friends and, guess what, Talor walked away a winner about $70 - although we lost the other games we were a part of. As Monday was our first real day of work we didn't make it too much of a hard night and left at a respectable hour.

Ben