Well, we're here

Hello everyone.
Well, here we are in South Korea... and I have to say it is very very different, difficult and yeah. A lot of stuff has kind of gone a little wrong, but we're surviving. When we arrived, the old teachers had not moved out of their apartment yet and so the school put us up in a 'Motel' for 3 nights... this is not your typical american style motel... our co-workers affectionately refer to these places as 'love motels'.

Anyway, it also turns out that we do not get our own apartment and we have to share a 3 bedroom apartment with two male teachers (making me a bit uncomfortable), their names are Waseem (a Muslim guy from Edmonton) and Ryan (a guy from New Zealand). We move in tonight.

The school seems pretty good though. Scott and I are both working at the same school, though they neglected to tell us that we would be working at different campuses. Scott works at Cheolsan and I work at Hann. I started teaching there today and boy was it difficult. It's hard to keep control of a class of 15 kindergarteners when you don't speak the same language as them and their grasp of English is saying 'Hello' and 'Goodbye'. Some of the kids are really cute, but others are little devils that run around like crazy, jump on tables, scream and pull on your clothes.... now try to teach them anything. Anyway.... it's going to be tough. I do have 3 older girls later in the afternoon and they are really good and try really hard. The campus I work at is a traditional Korean Kindergarten school, so they also teach piano, balet and martial arts. My Korean co-teachers that teach the other classes are kind of interfering and will come into your class while you're teaching and interupt you to tell you what you're doing wrong. So nice of them eh?

Well, I guess there's not much else to say... I miss Canada with it's fresh air, lack of millions of neon lights, and lack of smog (the smog in Seoul makes it impossible to see the sun, any blue sky, the moon or the stars... although you wouldn't be able to see the stars anyway for all the neon lights).

It's not all bad, and I'll probably get used to it all eventually..... but Pray for us a lot please.