Orientation

So far so good, we are still alive and well.

We have started with orientation and learning of the Korean language is well on its way.

We're not used to the food just yet, but getting there slowly but surely. I think they are easing us into the asian way of life, which is pretty cool. It makes the culture shock gap a little smaller.

We've met quite a few people from across the world during orientation and something that was very surprizing is the fact that there are only a hand full of South Africans. It's so nice to hear afrikaans, or someone with a crappy accent - makes you feel close to home.

The first few days of orientation was very laid back, al we did was exploring and learning a little more about Korean culture. The last few days we've been attending lectures on teaching, co-teaching, methodology and ways to keep kids busy. haha!! We've also attended Korean classes at night to brush up on those language skills.


Things that we are desperately missing at this stage are: cheese, salt and I really miss liqui fruit juice. O and niknaks. Apart from that, we've found really nice bread and other stuff to keep our tummies full.

Today we visited Hanok Village in Jeonju. (Jeonju is where we are staying at the moment.) After walking around in the village, which felt like hours, we walked to a 600 year old school for lunch, where all 700 of us met. We had bibibap (or something) for lunch. This is made in a big bowl thing, a little bigger that a bath tub - roughly the size of a jacuzzi. The ingredients are...well basically everything you can think of! Seafood, beef, vegetables and other weird multi coloured asian stuff with a really spicy chilli sauce.

It is still seriously hot in this place and I think we are slowly but surely overheating. Our orientation is slowly coming to an end, will be meeting our co-teachers on Thursday and on Friday they are taking us to our flats in Busan. Can't wait for that...I hear there's an Irish pub close by x