I am really horrible at updating my blog - and now I have no camera for the next week.
I let my friend Nora borrow it for the next 2 weeks while she vacations in Guam - yup, I'm a nice friend I know!
Anyways, I update my twitter probably 4 or 5 times a day - short little snippets of my day - and I encourage you to read those.
As soon as I get my camera back - and once things have calmed down at my school - it's report card time and lesson planning time, and with my own graduate school, I will be back to updating 2 to 3 times a week.
See you all again in two weeks or so!
-Carly
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Pizza and Beer
Tonight for dinner, I got tired of the same ole Korean and decided to order a pizza. Like everything seems to be in Korea, it was cutely wrapped in a package:
The pizza was actually really good, an looked completely normal - unlike many pizzas I've seen here in Korea.
Even had whole wheat crust. For Korea, a solid 9 out of 10!
And you can't have pizza without beer, so I strolled over to Family Mart - think 7-11 - and picked out some beers. I picked some of the more interesting ones.
As you can see here, we have "Stylish Beer" - Premium Beer with Fiber - the tag line is "Smooth & light premium beer exclusively designed for well-being of young generation". Not quite sure why the young generation needs fiber - but watch out US, I'm sure your beer will have fiber in it too soon - everything else seems to.
And then of course, I got a Cass - Korean beer affectionately know as 'ass' to most people. So if I'm going to be drinking ass, may as well have lemony fresh ass - I suppose.
And to prevent dehydration after my pizza and beer, I got this lovely beverage - kinda tastes like what it's called.
Hope everyone back home is well!
-Carly
And you can't have pizza without beer, so I strolled over to Family Mart - think 7-11 - and picked out some beers. I picked some of the more interesting ones.
And then of course, I got a Cass - Korean beer affectionately know as 'ass' to most people. So if I'm going to be drinking ass, may as well have lemony fresh ass - I suppose.
And to prevent dehydration after my pizza and beer, I got this lovely beverage - kinda tastes like what it's called.
Hope everyone back home is well!
-Carly
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Appliance Taste/Tow Truck and a George Foreman!
Look at this refrigerator I saw at the store today!
The colors in that photo aren't that great, but it's black and bronze and sparkly. And it will only set you back 2.78 million Won! :P or about $2300 US Dollars! (I for one wouldn't have a bronze sparkly fridge in my house).
Also came upon a lonely George Foreman grill. I don't think anyone has bought one, and at $50 for a really really small one, I can see why!
On the way home from the store, I saw a tow truck. Really small and cute!
Okay! Enough procrastinating! Time to clean my apartment!
-Carly
The colors in that photo aren't that great, but it's black and bronze and sparkly. And it will only set you back 2.78 million Won! :P or about $2300 US Dollars! (I for one wouldn't have a bronze sparkly fridge in my house).
Also came upon a lonely George Foreman grill. I don't think anyone has bought one, and at $50 for a really really small one, I can see why!
On the way home from the store, I saw a tow truck. Really small and cute!
Okay! Enough procrastinating! Time to clean my apartment!
-Carly
Lotteria
Last night, I finally broke down and ate at Lotteria. South Korea's answer to McDonalds.
I ordered the European Frisco Cheese combo.
As you can see, a combo comes with - a smaller than the smallest in the US drink, a child sized fries, and only ONE packet of ketchup.
Below is a close-up of the ridiculousness of the burger though>
From top to bottom: Bun Patty, Yellow pepper, olives, fried mozzarella cheese - think cheese sticks only in burger patty form, a burger patty, teriaki sauce, tomato, lettuce, cheese whiz, and another bun patty.
The taste is actually like an 8 or 9 out of 10.
On another note, the ice cream cone at Lotteria is to die for - dairy queen creamy with a small hint of cocunut - all for 500 won - about 40 cents.
As you can see, a combo comes with - a smaller than the smallest in the US drink, a child sized fries, and only ONE packet of ketchup.
Below is a close-up of the ridiculousness of the burger though>
The taste is actually like an 8 or 9 out of 10.
On another note, the ice cream cone at Lotteria is to die for - dairy queen creamy with a small hint of cocunut - all for 500 won - about 40 cents.
Delayed Post!
Sorry for the delay in post. I've been a bit under the weather. Nothing in particular, but most of my free time has been spent sleeping, I'm still really tired all of the time. Oh well. At least I don't have a sinus infection (yet...knock on wood.)
The simplest things are so complicated here in Korea.
Today I went to the Dunkin' Donuts in my neighborhood for a coffee, and saw a donut that I wanted. Now in the Dunkin' Donuts near my work, you just point to the donut you want, and since they are behind the counter, the lady behind the counter gets it for you. But the DD in my neighborhood is different. The donuts are out in cases and are self serve. But there was no tissue paper or anything to be seen. I finally just had to sit down in the shop and wait for another customer to get a donut. Turns out there were trays and tongs in the corner, but it was still interesting. There were like 20 pairs of tongs, so each customer uses their own tongs and then turns them in at the counter.
Another thing that is complicated is cleaning, more specifically, cleaning products. My boss informed me that I had to completely clean my apartment if I want to get my leaky sink fixed. He said that it would be embarrassing to bring a repairman in to a dirty apartment. So...that means buying cleaning supplies. Now window cleaner, and like spray kitchen counter cleaner are easy enough to figure out from the pictures, but what about mopping agent!? There are no pictures, AND you can't read the solution mix you are suppose to use, on top of the fact you have no idea what it is. I finally decided to just mop my floors with bleach, because it was the only thing in the store that I could open up the bottle and (by smelling) confirm it was bleach.
Another thing that is really hard to get use to is the fact that I have no clothes dryer. At home, I just needed to realize 2.5 hours before I needed clean clothes that I should start laundry. But here I have to air dry my clothes, and it is SOOO humid here that often leaving the clothes to dry ALL DAY is not long enough for them to be completely dry. I can somewhat remedy this by drying my clothes under my air conditioner, but, I've been told that the A/C here is very expensive (though what very expensive here is, I don't know), and the clothes can dry in about 4 to 5 hours. But still, it takes at a minimum, 6 to 7 hours to wash and dry a load of clothes.
Just now, I went to Lotte Mart - which is like Wal-mart, it's sells just about everything. There I bought a broom, and of course, I had to pick a broom with no UPC on it. So when I finally get to the cash register to pay, mind you, I had already waited in like more than 15 minutes, because on Saturday and Sunday Lotte Mart is CRAZY busy - like positively packed - think of Wal-mart, but with having no personal space - and in a culture where it is okay, and no one thinks anything of it - if they run into you. So anyways, I get to the cash register with my broom, and the lady sees that there is no UPC on the broom. She points in the general direction of the store where the broom is located, and takes off - there were at least 10 people, if no more - waiting in line to check out - i do believe I've finally been cursed out in Korea...haha. How mortifying. Oh well, I got my broom, and now I can sweep and mop my apartment. And FINALLY unpack, organize and take out my trash.
Lots to do this weekend! I have to clean my apartment, wash and dry probably 3 or 4 loads of clothes, do an entire months worth of planning for 3 pre-school classes AND on top of that, I have to take my first test in my White Collar Crime class. Hopefully I will be able to accomplish this. Tonight, here in Korea it's going to be very loud. Korea plays Uruguay in the World Cup. Like the pictures from one of my previous posts, the streets will be packed, and there will be screaming and carrying on well into the night with the game starting at 11pm local time and then the USA game at 3:30am. It's going to be quite a Saturday night.
Hope everyone is well back home!
-Carly
The simplest things are so complicated here in Korea.
Today I went to the Dunkin' Donuts in my neighborhood for a coffee, and saw a donut that I wanted. Now in the Dunkin' Donuts near my work, you just point to the donut you want, and since they are behind the counter, the lady behind the counter gets it for you. But the DD in my neighborhood is different. The donuts are out in cases and are self serve. But there was no tissue paper or anything to be seen. I finally just had to sit down in the shop and wait for another customer to get a donut. Turns out there were trays and tongs in the corner, but it was still interesting. There were like 20 pairs of tongs, so each customer uses their own tongs and then turns them in at the counter.
Another thing that is complicated is cleaning, more specifically, cleaning products. My boss informed me that I had to completely clean my apartment if I want to get my leaky sink fixed. He said that it would be embarrassing to bring a repairman in to a dirty apartment. So...that means buying cleaning supplies. Now window cleaner, and like spray kitchen counter cleaner are easy enough to figure out from the pictures, but what about mopping agent!? There are no pictures, AND you can't read the solution mix you are suppose to use, on top of the fact you have no idea what it is. I finally decided to just mop my floors with bleach, because it was the only thing in the store that I could open up the bottle and (by smelling) confirm it was bleach.
Another thing that is really hard to get use to is the fact that I have no clothes dryer. At home, I just needed to realize 2.5 hours before I needed clean clothes that I should start laundry. But here I have to air dry my clothes, and it is SOOO humid here that often leaving the clothes to dry ALL DAY is not long enough for them to be completely dry. I can somewhat remedy this by drying my clothes under my air conditioner, but, I've been told that the A/C here is very expensive (though what very expensive here is, I don't know), and the clothes can dry in about 4 to 5 hours. But still, it takes at a minimum, 6 to 7 hours to wash and dry a load of clothes.
Just now, I went to Lotte Mart - which is like Wal-mart, it's sells just about everything. There I bought a broom, and of course, I had to pick a broom with no UPC on it. So when I finally get to the cash register to pay, mind you, I had already waited in like more than 15 minutes, because on Saturday and Sunday Lotte Mart is CRAZY busy - like positively packed - think of Wal-mart, but with having no personal space - and in a culture where it is okay, and no one thinks anything of it - if they run into you. So anyways, I get to the cash register with my broom, and the lady sees that there is no UPC on the broom. She points in the general direction of the store where the broom is located, and takes off - there were at least 10 people, if no more - waiting in line to check out - i do believe I've finally been cursed out in Korea...haha. How mortifying. Oh well, I got my broom, and now I can sweep and mop my apartment. And FINALLY unpack, organize and take out my trash.
Lots to do this weekend! I have to clean my apartment, wash and dry probably 3 or 4 loads of clothes, do an entire months worth of planning for 3 pre-school classes AND on top of that, I have to take my first test in my White Collar Crime class. Hopefully I will be able to accomplish this. Tonight, here in Korea it's going to be very loud. Korea plays Uruguay in the World Cup. Like the pictures from one of my previous posts, the streets will be packed, and there will be screaming and carrying on well into the night with the game starting at 11pm local time and then the USA game at 3:30am. It's going to be quite a Saturday night.
Hope everyone is well back home!
-Carly
Monday, June 21, 2010
Lisa's Birthday
Before work, I stopped by Dunkin Donuts for a coffee. Unfortunately it is nearly impossible to find drip coffee in the country. Everything - if you find coffee, is watered down espresso - so I got my iced watered down espresso - which they call "iced americano", and happened upon this lovely donut.
For those of you who don't know, Kimchi is spicy fermented cabbage.
When I got to school, I discovered it was Lisa's birthday. It is a HUGE celebration for these pre-schoolers. The school day stops, and the kid is presented with all sorts of food and presents and the other children sing songs to her and tell her how great she is.
I don't think you can see it, but there is a "6" on Lisa's birthday cake. Lisa isn't actually 6 years olds - she's 5. They do this really weird thing in Korea where you are born at age "1" - and you turn the next age on January 1 of the following year. So I am Korean age 25, and turned as such on Jan 1st, 2010. (International age - as they call it - I'm 23, and on Oct. 31, I'll be 24).
Below is a picture of the three little girls I teach second class of the day.
Please let me know if there is anything you'd like me to write about or take pictures of.
-Carly
For those of you who don't know, Kimchi is spicy fermented cabbage.
When I got to school, I discovered it was Lisa's birthday. It is a HUGE celebration for these pre-schoolers. The school day stops, and the kid is presented with all sorts of food and presents and the other children sing songs to her and tell her how great she is.
Below is a picture of the three little girls I teach second class of the day.
-Carly
First Weekend in Korea, Cont.
When I got to Itaewon, I was met by a girl named Nora - who I actually met through twitter. Before I left for Korea, I went on a twitter search engine and typed in "teach english korea" - and Nora popped up. So she and I started talking prior to my arrival in Korea, and this past weekend was the first time we met in person.
We went to a bar called the Grecko. It's an American bar right down to the fact they serve burgers and fries. There we watched the USA vs. Slovenia World Cup soccer game. About every 15 minutes, 2 US Army military police and two korean military police would walk through the bar. In the US, as you know, it's illegal to be drunk in public - in Korea, it is okay to be drunk in public - in fact why go to a bar, when you can sit outside of 7-11 in lawn chairs drinking beer you bought in the store. But anyways, the Army walks through because the US government still enforces the "no drunk in public" rules for the soldiers, even off duty. If you're in the army, and you're being rowdy in the bar, the military police will cart you out.
The next day, we went to Nora's Korean co-teachers house for dinner. This way quite an experience, the dinner lasted for HOURS and HOURS and HOURS. We had dessert first - shaved ice with ice cream, caramel and fruit sauces, fruit, red beans - yes, red beans, gummies - about 5 different varieties of them. Believe it or not, red beans in dessert was not too bad because everything else is sweet.
For the main course we had sahboo-sahboo. Basically, we sat on the floor around a table. In the center of the table they put a burner and on the burner a big pot. In the pot they had an anchovy broth going. And for each "course" a different thing was added to the pot. Beef, then greens, then seafood - one piece of seafood looked like an acorn. You put the whole thing in your mouth - and it would pop, you'd chew on it some more and spit out the "top of the acorn".
That night, Nora and I spent the night at a house that Nora is cat sitting for. It was SOO nice to see a cat, I really miss my cat Dexter. This guy is named Hoover!
After that I took the Subway home - exhausted from a super long weekend!
An interesting thing I find about the subway is that it is about 20 cars long. And you are free to move from car to car by just pushing the black button - looks like a rectangle - on the center left side of the divider door.
Sad that Monday means back to work,
-Carly
We went to a bar called the Grecko. It's an American bar right down to the fact they serve burgers and fries. There we watched the USA vs. Slovenia World Cup soccer game. About every 15 minutes, 2 US Army military police and two korean military police would walk through the bar. In the US, as you know, it's illegal to be drunk in public - in Korea, it is okay to be drunk in public - in fact why go to a bar, when you can sit outside of 7-11 in lawn chairs drinking beer you bought in the store. But anyways, the Army walks through because the US government still enforces the "no drunk in public" rules for the soldiers, even off duty. If you're in the army, and you're being rowdy in the bar, the military police will cart you out.
The next day, we went to Nora's Korean co-teachers house for dinner. This way quite an experience, the dinner lasted for HOURS and HOURS and HOURS. We had dessert first - shaved ice with ice cream, caramel and fruit sauces, fruit, red beans - yes, red beans, gummies - about 5 different varieties of them. Believe it or not, red beans in dessert was not too bad because everything else is sweet.
For the main course we had sahboo-sahboo. Basically, we sat on the floor around a table. In the center of the table they put a burner and on the burner a big pot. In the pot they had an anchovy broth going. And for each "course" a different thing was added to the pot. Beef, then greens, then seafood - one piece of seafood looked like an acorn. You put the whole thing in your mouth - and it would pop, you'd chew on it some more and spit out the "top of the acorn".
That night, Nora and I spent the night at a house that Nora is cat sitting for. It was SOO nice to see a cat, I really miss my cat Dexter. This guy is named Hoover!
I love the poof on his tail!
The next morning we did an American breakfast. Their attempt at "sausage" was interesting to say the least.
We went to the Korean War museum.
Sad that Monday means back to work,
-Carly
Sunday, June 20, 2010
A positively long overdue Post!!
I have to admit, I am terrible at remembering to take pictures. I had a weekend in Seoul and walked away with like 10 pictures. My apologies, I've never been a picture person.
Actually found this photo from my first day of work -right before I walked out the door to take the bus - bus number 1-1, which costs me 900won or 75 cents to get to work. Felt like the first day of school really. A student who wanted to impress her teachers.
On Thursday I went to get my haircut with my America co-teacher Bria. We ended up going to Sanbondong, which is a large outdoor mall area about a 15 to 20 minute bus ride from home. It was interesting trying to explain to someone who doesn't speak English what you want for a hair cut. So I ended up finding a picture of what was close to what I wanted and went from there. But there was a problem, my hair is too fine to have as many layers as the picture that I pointed to, so my hair dresser ended up calling his brother in GERMANY to help negotiate the haircut. The hairdresser kept saying "VOOL-UME", "VOOL-UME", I got him to write down what he was trying to tell me in Korean, and it turns out that he wants me to get a volume perm, and a scalp treatment from a scalp doctor. We'll see, I guess I've kind of grown accustom to my really really really fine hair - and apparently horrible scalp. I really enjoyed getting my haircut - mint shampoo and condition, scalp massage, haircut and blow dry for 15,000 won - $12.45....AND you don't tip in Korea. And this place was a really upscale salon!
Thursday was actually the night that South Korea played Argentina in the World Cup, so when I got back to my neighborhood, I found this right outside my door!
I found people out in mass on the sidewalks, screens set up everywhere - to watch Korea play soccer. It was so packed that I couldn't even walk down the sidewalk. And god forbid I walk in front of one of the hundreds of TVs set up just for the game.
Friday night, I went into Seoul for the first time. Since I haven't been shown how to take the bus to the subway station yet, I took a 7 minute taxi ride to Pyeongchon station for 3,000 won ($2.50) and then took the light blue line to Samgakji and then took the Burnt Orange line two stops (East) to Itaewon - the entire trip into Seoul, including the taxi was 4,200 won ($3.50) - and took about 40 minutes.
Below is the subway map. Pyeongchon is on the light blue line in the lower left corner - follow that to the burnt orange line and go two stations to the right for Itaweon.
This post....To be continued!
Actually found this photo from my first day of work -right before I walked out the door to take the bus - bus number 1-1, which costs me 900won or 75 cents to get to work. Felt like the first day of school really. A student who wanted to impress her teachers.
Thursday was actually the night that South Korea played Argentina in the World Cup, so when I got back to my neighborhood, I found this right outside my door!
Friday night, I went into Seoul for the first time. Since I haven't been shown how to take the bus to the subway station yet, I took a 7 minute taxi ride to Pyeongchon station for 3,000 won ($2.50) and then took the light blue line to Samgakji and then took the Burnt Orange line two stops (East) to Itaewon - the entire trip into Seoul, including the taxi was 4,200 won ($3.50) - and took about 40 minutes.
Below is the subway map. Pyeongchon is on the light blue line in the lower left corner - follow that to the burnt orange line and go two stations to the right for Itaweon.
This post....To be continued!
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Apartment Dinner
I'm at a dinner with my friend Norasha at her Korean co-teacher's
apartment. Unfortunately didn't bring my camera. Will have a full
update tomorrow.
apartment. Unfortunately didn't bring my camera. Will have a full
update tomorrow.
-Carly
Sent from my iPod
Hello All!
Just wanted to let everyone know that everything is still going well. I'm spending the weekend in Seoul and actually went to an American bar last night to watch the World Cup (USA vs. Slovenia). Game started at 11pm. Was a great night. Ate a hamburger, never thought fries and a burger would taste so good.
When I get back to my house on Sunday, I promise a full update.
-Carly
When I get back to my house on Sunday, I promise a full update.
-Carly
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
So far, so good.
I really need to go out into my neighborhood and take some pictures, but by the time I get home, I really tired and hot, and just want a shower. It is so humid in Korea. And my school is pretty hot all the time too. Today, while teaching my class, I was positively dripping wet, and the wife of my boss (Mrs. Lee), saw and thankfully (finally) turned on the A/C for me. But A/C seems to scare some Koreans. When I first moved into my apartment, my boss, Mr. Lee told me I could not sleep with the A/C on because I would suffocate, especially while sleeping. He called it Korean Bed Death. This of course is not true, but A/C really does seem to scare them.
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday I work from 10am to 6:40pm with a two hour lunch break. And on Tuesday and Thursday, I work from 10am to 5:55pm - with a 1.5 hour lunch break. So fairly long days - at least in teaching english standards. I teach all levels of English from pre-school in a classroom setting to high schoolers in a one-on-one setting. The high schoolers one-on-one is actually kind of hard. There are some words that they have in their workbook that even I don't know. Like SAT type questions. Which word is the most exact opposite meaning of Martial - I don't know Martial's meaning well enough off the top of my head to be able to tell the student. Oh well.
For breakfast, I have been eating rice porridge - very similar to oatmeal in consistency, but made of rice. But here they don't have any "breakfast" flavors - my rice porridge is mushroom flavored. Along with the rice porridge, I've been eating a banana and an apple and some Orange Juice -- in a effort to make it feel like to me breakfast.
For lunch, I have the option of either eating lunch at the school with the pre-schoolers - an old lady cooks lunch every day and brings it to the school (today we had pickled cucumbers, tofu and radishes, black beans -but seasoned with soy sauce, and left hard(er), not mushey, rice and a mushroom soup - or, I can eat a restaurant downstairs of my building. As far as I can tell, it's a "be been bop" restaurant - and everything is very cheap. You can get more than you can eat for 3,500 to 4,000 won (depending on what you order), so $2.85 to $3.25 -and there is no tipping in Korea! Also another interesting thing that I find is that all the chop sticks here are metal - back home I've seen plastic and wooden chop sticks, but never metal.
For dinner, I have also been eating out as well - as I have no cooking furnishings at my apartment. The teacher that I am replacing at my school never ever cooked. He didn't even have a bowl or a cup at the apartment. But my school director has agreed to get me some kitchen furnishings, so I hope to cook, at least a little bit, mainly breakfast, here soon.
Today was the first day that I took the bus to school alone. And it was a major fail. I got off the bus too early and than got incredibly lost. As I walked down the street, I showed an old korean lady and envelope with the schools address written on it. And like all Koreans, wiped out her cellphone and promtly called the school and asked how to get there. She has me cross the street and popped me on a bus. But having no idea where I was, or even if I would recognize the school from the new bus, I hopped off after a stop or two and flagged down a taxi. Turns out I was more or less just across the street from the school - well, across a 6 lane highway full of crazy korean drivers!
I promise to whip out the camera soon and take some pictures to share.
-Carly
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday I work from 10am to 6:40pm with a two hour lunch break. And on Tuesday and Thursday, I work from 10am to 5:55pm - with a 1.5 hour lunch break. So fairly long days - at least in teaching english standards. I teach all levels of English from pre-school in a classroom setting to high schoolers in a one-on-one setting. The high schoolers one-on-one is actually kind of hard. There are some words that they have in their workbook that even I don't know. Like SAT type questions. Which word is the most exact opposite meaning of Martial - I don't know Martial's meaning well enough off the top of my head to be able to tell the student. Oh well.
For breakfast, I have been eating rice porridge - very similar to oatmeal in consistency, but made of rice. But here they don't have any "breakfast" flavors - my rice porridge is mushroom flavored. Along with the rice porridge, I've been eating a banana and an apple and some Orange Juice -- in a effort to make it feel like to me breakfast.
For lunch, I have the option of either eating lunch at the school with the pre-schoolers - an old lady cooks lunch every day and brings it to the school (today we had pickled cucumbers, tofu and radishes, black beans -but seasoned with soy sauce, and left hard(er), not mushey, rice and a mushroom soup - or, I can eat a restaurant downstairs of my building. As far as I can tell, it's a "be been bop" restaurant - and everything is very cheap. You can get more than you can eat for 3,500 to 4,000 won (depending on what you order), so $2.85 to $3.25 -and there is no tipping in Korea! Also another interesting thing that I find is that all the chop sticks here are metal - back home I've seen plastic and wooden chop sticks, but never metal.
For dinner, I have also been eating out as well - as I have no cooking furnishings at my apartment. The teacher that I am replacing at my school never ever cooked. He didn't even have a bowl or a cup at the apartment. But my school director has agreed to get me some kitchen furnishings, so I hope to cook, at least a little bit, mainly breakfast, here soon.
Today was the first day that I took the bus to school alone. And it was a major fail. I got off the bus too early and than got incredibly lost. As I walked down the street, I showed an old korean lady and envelope with the schools address written on it. And like all Koreans, wiped out her cellphone and promtly called the school and asked how to get there. She has me cross the street and popped me on a bus. But having no idea where I was, or even if I would recognize the school from the new bus, I hopped off after a stop or two and flagged down a taxi. Turns out I was more or less just across the street from the school - well, across a 6 lane highway full of crazy korean drivers!
I promise to whip out the camera soon and take some pictures to share.
-Carly
Monday, June 14, 2010
First Day of Work!
So the days here are way longer than I expected. I have to leave for work at 9:10, and then I'm at work 9:30 to 6:40 but have a 2 hour break for lunch. So weird hours I guess.
I really enjoyed teaching the pre-schoolers. It was really fun. Today's word of the day was "come". So I had the stand in a line and call the the next person in line across the room, "______(Name), Please come here." The 4 year olds ate that up. Also all the children seem to have American names.
Anyways, really very tired, will update more extensively tomorrow, hopefully with some pictures of my neighborhood!
I really enjoyed teaching the pre-schoolers. It was really fun. Today's word of the day was "come". So I had the stand in a line and call the the next person in line across the room, "______(Name), Please come here." The 4 year olds ate that up. Also all the children seem to have American names.
Anyways, really very tired, will update more extensively tomorrow, hopefully with some pictures of my neighborhood!
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Made it to Korea!
Left my good friend Julie's apartment in DC at 4:50am with a crap ton of luggage. One bag was 52 lbs, the other 65 lbs.
My flight to Korea had no leg room
...But I did get to see Mt. Rainer (Seattle) from the plane!
My new boss picked my up and had a very cool GPS type device that advised him everytime the speed limit changed, which was like every kilometer almost, and also advised him where the traffic cameras were.
My first meal in Korea was at Lotte Mart - pretty much exactly like Wal-mart
...And it was RAW fish in a bowl with rice and veges. Basically tasted like Sushi in bowl form with no seaweed. Also had miso soup. Which Koreans call soy soup.
And now for some photos of my apartment! (yes! that's a sink/shower combo you see!)
My new boss picked my up and had a very cool GPS type device that advised him everytime the speed limit changed, which was like every kilometer almost, and also advised him where the traffic cameras were.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
On my Way!
Dad took a photo of me as he dropped me off at the metro! - And also took a picture of his finger...go Dad!
Friday, June 11, 2010
Nothing says a good day like Free Starbucks!
What a good day today. Woke up, drove to Starbucks for my last cinnamon dolce iced latte for a while and timed things positively beautifully...their computers were down, so therefore my coffee was free :-)
Managed to get all of my boxes moved to my grandmother's house, so all I have to do now is vacuum my apartment and pack my suitcase and carry-on.
In an effort to be able to take some larger bulky stuff with me, I bought some vacuum sealed space saver bags. I keep having dreams that the bags explode and refill with air and I arrive in Korea with nothing. Hopefully this does not happen. But the fact that I'll arrive in Korea with my comforter (bed spread), my favorite winter coat, and my 600 thread count egyptian cotton sheets will hopefully make these space save bags worth it!
Anyways, this will be the last entry until I get internet set up in Korea, but I will update you all as soon as I can!
-Carly
Managed to get all of my boxes moved to my grandmother's house, so all I have to do now is vacuum my apartment and pack my suitcase and carry-on.
In an effort to be able to take some larger bulky stuff with me, I bought some vacuum sealed space saver bags. I keep having dreams that the bags explode and refill with air and I arrive in Korea with nothing. Hopefully this does not happen. But the fact that I'll arrive in Korea with my comforter (bed spread), my favorite winter coat, and my 600 thread count egyptian cotton sheets will hopefully make these space save bags worth it!
Anyways, this will be the last entry until I get internet set up in Korea, but I will update you all as soon as I can!
-Carly
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