adventures of a teacher
from central illinois
living in korea
(& traveling all over)!
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Yes, It’s Seoul . NOT EGG.
Gangnam folks thinking they’re at the center of the universe ㅋㅋㅋ. Truuueee.
Haha, it is true! My gu is where it’s at.
I’m finally updating my music library, thanks to having a ton of free time at work this week and coworkers who like good music.
“Walking on a Dream” - Empire of the Sun
Check out my $50 sheet and $60 blanket
Peruvian blanket = prized possession
My apartment, which is nothing more than a big room with a bathroom and laundry porch attached. The lighting is bad, like in every Korean apartment, but it looks a lot worse in the pics.
Everything is pretty much just how I want it, I only have to fill these two pillow cases I bought in Laos and Thailand and buy pillows for my bed. One of my coworkers lives in my building, and she has found a ton of nice furniture in the garbage in our neighborhood. So I’m going to steal her shoe rack and shelves for clothes when she leaves at the end of April. Piling things under my bed and TV work for now.
Plenty of room for my summer visitors! :D
A Korean couple allowed their child to starve to death because of their addiction to raising a ‘virtual’ child in a Second-Life-style game online known as Prius, reports say.
Kim Yoo-chul, 41, and Choi Mi-sun, 25, would feed their three-month-old baby only when not at 12-hour-online sessions in a local internet café. The pair were obsessed with raising their internet child, called Anima, resulting in the neglect of their unnamed real daughter.
I DIED AT THE TITLE
Ughhh. My sister showed me this. :[ Not good media attention for Korea.
Like I’ve said 100 times, I love my new ‘hood.
I went into my new little grocery shop for the first time with my coworkers after work, and the owner was so surprised to see me with them.
Him: “New face!”
Coworker: “Yeah, new teacher!”
Him: “Ahh! New teacher!”
Then yesterday, he was very excited to introduce me to his daughter. ”New teacher!” Only in Korea. Lee Hyori also allegedly lives down the street so I’ll have to keep my eyes open for some celebrity-stalking opportunities.
Late-night galbi last Monday
Joseph, Ags, me
I have lots of pictures with strangers
Agatha was in Seoul for a week before finally heading back to Chicago. She finished teaching the same time I did, and did a massive four-month trip around SE Asia. It was cool to be able to talk to someone about a lot of the places I’ve been too! It will be weird not having her in Seoul for my second year.
I finally bought a sheet for my bed. A sheet—nothing more—because this one piece of fabric cost $50. I don’t understand why bedding is so expensive here. I would suggest to anyone coming to Korea to find out if their bed will be sheeted and blanketed, and if not, to find out the size and bring sheets of your own. Not only is everything expensive, most of it is really ugly, too. Luckily I found a decent looking sheet, and will have to go back to get a matching overpriced blanket. So dumb.
10:40am: Woke up, did nothing
1pm: Walked 5 minutes to work
2:30pm: Ate lunch that the school paid for (we get a 5,000 won meal allowance each day)
3pm: Taught first class of six
6:15pm: Coworker’s birthday, sang and ate cake. Bell rang, no one moved. ”Didn’t the bell ring?” ”Yeah.” Everyone sat and ate more cake for five minutes.
7:45pm: Finished last class, went home
MWFs are a bit longer, but will also be easy. Thursdays are even shorter. Awesome. It’s so much more laid back then my old job, it’s unbelievable.
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