Ok, so Ive been at my new apartment and school for a little over a week so I thought Id fill everyone in on how it was going. First, the school: The new school is great for a lot of reasons, the best being the staff and proximity to my apartment. When we merged schools, we also merged the staff and students (most of them anyway) meaning I now work with twice as many native English speakers. If you can remember back to my first birthday weekend post, that was the first time I had met any of the new staff, and after a week, I am still amazed that everyone I work with is so easy going and easy to get along with. With the addition of the 3 new teachers this week (more on this later), I think our teaching staff is now up to 12, maybe 13. The new school is about 1/3 bigger than the last, with more office/desk space and more classrooms. The school is divided between two floors with the majority of classrooms on the 2nd floor and most of the offices on the first. My desk and classroom are on the first, along with 3 other teachers'. Heres a brief tour of my floor and classroom:
In terms of proximity, I only have to walk 10-15 minutes from my apartment to reach the school compared to a 20min drive to the first one. Also, there a lot more restaurant options around the new school so its a lot easier to not eat Korean for lunch if you dont want to.
Like I said, we have 3 new teachers this week, a couple and another girl, all from Canada. Nationality aside, they all seem really nice and a few of us actually had dinner with the couple last night (they were 5 hrs off the a 13hr flight but were still pretty coherent). Their arrival has promoted me from the new guy to someone with a little more experience and it was nice to be able answer their questions and give a little advice, even though Ive only been here a little over 3 weeks.
Ok, so about my apartment: it is a huge step up from my original one and even closer to the action in my neighborhood. It has a lot of perks including a semi-patio, bigger washer, bigger bed, and a lot bigger living room. I did sacrifice a bigger TV, but its not really a problem since I only get 4 channels in English. Its hard to describe how its set up so just check out the video of it:
Thats it for now, more pictures and videos coming soon!
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ha ha ha your room is pink
i like the bells much better than the ringing we get stateside.
Your apartment is about 1 million times better than i expected. I liked the daft punk in the background. Are the bugs real bad there? Sorry i didn't consolidate these post into one message. I got excited each time i felt like leaving a comment.
I said the same thing: alot of pink in your classroom. But actually there are alot of colors in every room! No matchy-matchy
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