I heart Costco!

Wednesday, November 28^th – Friday, November 30^th

The next three school days involved much of the same thing, introductions, going over the rules and winging my classes.  The older students are definitely more of a challenge.  I worked Wednesday at my first school.  I had three new classes with younger kids so they were good.  I had the same four classes with the older kids.  This time they were using a book and not writing essays so the class was a bit more structured and they were a bit better behaved.  Thursday and Friday I was at my second school.  I had two more classes with around 20 students and those are definitely going to be the classes I dread the most.  Something cool I got to do was name some of my students who did not already have an English name.  I gave them five options and let them pick one.  One of my students is named Ed!

I continued to get to know my Korean co-workers.  They offered me some more Korean food to try.  I tried Korean pizza that was stuffed with a whole bunch of random things including seafood I think.  I tried pumpkin and rice soup, dominos pizza that had garlic, green pepper, mushrooms, four cheeses and a red barbeque type sauce (I liked the last item but the rest of them I was not a huge fan of).   They were also a little interested in me and asked me questions which as what do you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  I asked them what they eat for breakfast and their answer was rice!

Friday morning, I met with Casey and one of her co-workers and we went to Costco!  As I was walking in, it felt like home!  It has a very similar look to it, almost the exact same to ours in Canada.  They also had a lot of the same brands like Kirkland.  I was able to buy a huge bag of individually wrapped frozen chicken breasts, a huge bag of almonds, granola bars, a block of sharp cheddar cheese, tuna, balsamic vinegar and I was tempted to buy more but my cash was running low.  We had a pizza lunch at the Costco food court and then took a taxi back.  The driver dropped me off on the other side of the eight lane road so I had to lug all of my stuff up the stairs to a bridge that allows you to cross the street and then the rest of the way to my apartment.  All of the stuff I bought will last a long time, which makes me really happy!

 Gwangan Bridge

Friday night, I met my new Irish friends at a metro stop to go for dinner.  We went to an Italian place and I had my usual italian favourite (chicken alfredo).  It was actually really good, it had a lot of flavour and the price was reasonable.  After we walked to a foreign bar that was along the beach and I saw the beach and bridge for the first time!  The bridge was lit up with colours and it was very beautiful!  I am very excited to explore that area more.  One of the girls who was with us is South African and it was interesting hearing about a bit about her culture.  Claire’s boyfriend was with us too who coincidentally turned out to be one of the foreign teachers I emailed during my job search.  I talked to another South African who came to the bar with his other friends.  He has been here for around three years now so he was excited for me because I was just starting my experience and he had a lot of encouraging words for me.

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