1st Day of School

Food, Glorious Food: My co-teacher took me to lunch Sunday. We went for Chinese, which is much different here then in the US. I ordered seafood, noodles, and veggies, the seafood was octopus, shrimp, mussel, and squid, different but good. I feel like I've had more octopus and squid in the last few days then I have my whole life! We had a plate of fried shrimp to share at the table, this was covered in spicy chili sauce, very good! I also tried the Chinese noodles with bean sauce, lacking a lot of flavor, but something I would order. For dinner I met one of the american's I met for some Korean! I had their traditional bibimbap dish, rice with veggies and spicy sauce. It came with some miso-like soup and all the sides (kim chi, broccoli, tofu, and anchovies.) For 4,000won it was very good and filling! 


Today was my first day at school. My co-teacher was kind enough to drive me. I met the vice principle and more of the teachers. They are all very nice. One of the teachers is going to teach myself, my co-teacher and a few others some recipes next week!! I am going to be helping them all learn English, since they want to learn. I spent my day making power points, reviewing the course book, and making lesson plans. I will have more of that to do all week! Next week I will have 1 class to teach, it will be a 2 week winter camp. When that class is over, I teach a 1 week camp to the soccer team. Then I have the whole month of Feb to show up at work and lesson plan, since the children are on holiday until March. I hope I have more then 1 class per day after March! :) At lunch the teachers and I went to the same place we did last week, I believe they go each day. Its traditional Korean food, today they served us sides, rice, and a stew like soup with tofu and potatoes, yum! They served the same thing to everyone in the restaurant. I get the feeling they server something different each day.


This evening I ventured off for a run! It was brutally cold, -6c!! The run was great, I went through the outskirts of the city, stayed on one road that it took me up this massive hill, which is also the base of one of the Mountains. This weekend, when its not dark, I'll be sure to run up the mountain.