Who in the WHAT NOW?

I've been told I need to update my blog. So thats what I'm doing right now. It is Friday, September 5th, 2008. I am... tired to say the least. I just finished my first week. (well, I have classes this afternoon, but my Kindergarteners are on a field trip... so they don't even have class today).

Monday... was a terrible day. I really wanted to just give up on Korea and go home. So many things were going wrong. I didn't have my umbrella and it poured down rain ALL DAY. I'm not used to it raining all day. I'm used to spurts of rain here and there. It steadily rained all day. So I was drenched when I got to school. Then... I was also nervous on top of that. I didn't know what I was doing. I have never taught either Kindergarteners or Elementary. I have taught everything else... but not those. So. I was very nervous about the first day and how it would go. I felt like I was just thrown into the mix and had to either sink or swim. Thankfully I am pretty good in stressful situations. I can usually find my way out of the darkness.

My students are so cute. I have 6 kids in my class and for one 40 minute period I go and teach the 3 in Michelle's class. My six kids are all about 6 years old, which in America would be about 5 years old. I'm not sure how that works, but that is what I've been told. I have three girls and three boys. My kids names are: June, Yuna, Emily, Max, Eric and Kate. They are so cute!!! Yuna has decided she wants to go home with me every night. She attaches herself to me upon arriving to school and never lets go. haha.

I'll post pictures of my kids later.... I don't have internet at home, so it is hard to post pictures. I don't have internet at work on MY computer, so I have to bum internet time off other people. They are supposed to be getting more computers soon so that I will have my own at work then I won't ever have to bring my computer to work. (not like I actually DO bring it... but whatever.)

Lets see. In the afternoon I teach 2 elementary classes a day. On MWF I teach english to two classes. One is an International class, which means the kids are really smart and I can converse with them just like I would kids in America. They have a couple things they don't understand, mostly American slang... but they all have electronic dictionaries they carry around so I can spell the word for them and they can look it up and see it in Korean. They are way too smart for their own good. Haha. I love the first of the MWF classes. The other class is with this kid named Mickey who is a jerk. So obnoxious. I'm hoping he will calm down or I'll have to strangle him!!! ahhhh

My TTH classes are math and social studies. On Tuesday I teach social studies to 3 of the really smart kids from the day before and then after that I teach soc. studies to 3 kids who KNOW english, but are very shy. Both of those classes are a lot of fun for me. Then on Thursday I teach math to both of those classes.

I don't get done teaching until around 5:30pm. Which is ok since I don't have to be at work til around 9:30am.

Let see... I haven't done a lot of exploring yet, mostly because its only been a week and I'm settling in. This weekend a girl Kristin (from Canada) and I are planning to go into Seoul to go to this electronics market. I'm excited to be going into Seoul. I haven't been there yet. I live in Anyang city, which is like... a suburb?

Kinda like Tempe is to Phoenix I guess....

I saw a shirt on a parent the other day that said "THIS IS A REALLY MANY" and then on the back it said "NO, THIS IS A REALLY MANY". I'm not sure if I should be amused at the obvious disregard for English, but.... it is definitely weird to see that kind of stuff. And... I had to laugh at how that shirt really makes NO sense.

Well... I have a headache from typing right now. So thats all I'm going to write...... for today. :)