This week has gone by really fast. I am starting to get into the routines and things are going smoothly. I found some other teachers to go to worship services with. On Wednesday night we went to a service at this rooftop English cafe that was beautiful. Everyone there spoke English, which actually felt kind of weird. It was a great experience that I was really needing.

Right now I am bogged down with lesson planning. They have us do a month of lesson plans at a time, so having five classes of plans due at one time is a little overwhelming. My two intensive kindergarten classes are the most work, because I teach Reading, Writing, Grammar, Phonics and Speaking. We have a chart of what lessons need to be covered in what subject, but it is up to us to figure out how to teach them, and come up with homework assignments for them. I literally lay out all six of the books that each kindergarten class uses on my bed and go through them all figuring out how many pages of what books to do on what day. At the same time as doing all of those lesson plans, they want us to start working on the Christmas program now. It is up to each of us to figure out what our class is going to do on stage for ten minutes. For the level class that I have, I need to write a play of some kind. I am still at a loss for what to do for
There are quite a few things that they have here that they have back at home. Of course, since I am living in Bundang, the mall is filled with only the highest end fashion. We have Gucci, Coach, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Burberry, and even Swarofsky. There are also some typical restaurants. There are Dunkin' Donuts on almost every corner. A Krispy Kream is just outside the mall. I have also discovered KFC, T.G.I. Friday, Dominos Pizza, Papa Johns, California Pizza Kitchen, Baskin Robins, and of course, McDonnalds.

Now for a couple pictures:

This is my apartment building. My apartment is on the fourth floor, but is an interior apartment. The halls of the building actually go around my unit. Most apartments have one those big beautiful windows.....not mine.

This sidewalk is in the middle of the city. Just on the other side of the third row of trees, not ten feet from the sidewalk is a busy main road.

I have small hands, but my hand would have to be waaaaayyyy smaller than it is for this to be a normal size leaf.