First Week/School

Good Morning Everyone-
Today is Friday morning in Korea and I am getting ready for my last day of teaching for the week. The first week has been quite interesting and tiring, the jetlag makes forsome very long days. My first day (Wednesday) started out quite funny. The shower here is attached to the sink in the bathroom and there is a small lever that you pull to make the water come out ofthe sink or the shower hose. I was all ready for work except for brushing my teeth, so I went to the sink and turned it on but the water was still coming out of the shower head. The whole left side of my clothes were soaked. Ha, it was a rough way to start the first morning but I guess the only thing to do was laugh. On Wednesday I went to the school and it is very nice. The Director's name is also Kevin, and he and his wife run the school. There are about 100 students in the school but the students come on either Monday, Wednesday, and Friday or Tuesday and Thursday. Each class is between 1 and 8 kids, most of them are about 3-4. The kids at school are mostly younger, they range from kindergardeners to 15 years old. One thing about Korean age is that newborns are 1 year old, so I am actually 24 now going on 25 in July according to the people here. The first day they kind of threw me to the wolves, I did not know what was expected so I was standing in front of a class of 4 and just kind of stared. The kids are fun, the younger they are the more wild they are. I think that it is because they do not really understand me, but the older the kids are the more they listen to what I am saying. The school has a syllabus and each student has a list of 3 different books, a Dialogue Book, a Reading Book,and a Phonics Book. I generally start reading through the daily lesson and they repeat asa group and then individually. Then we do mostly the same thing with the other 2 books and then sometimes we would play a game. Their favorite game so far is hangman, they usually pick words out of the lessons and then everyone tries to guess. I am still getting used tothe whole teaching process but I think that it will get easier as time goes on. I finally figured out how to get money, the first few days I could not get an ATM to work and I could not find a bank that to exchange money. I ended up borrowing money from one of the other teachers and bought some essentials. I have been waking up and odd times and going tobed very early, but it has given me some time to walk around the city in the mornings. The city is very nice, there are a lot of tall buildings and everything is really clean. The people are very friendly and they are glad to help. I will take some pictures of school today and also of the city. I will be sure to post them later, I have about 5 hours until school (it starts at 1:30 each day) so I am going to take take a walk and take pictures to show people what it is like in Korea.
Sorry that this post is completely random, hopefully it helps people to understand what it is like, and I be writing again soon. =)

Kevin