1st day of work

Hello All!

Today was my first day of work. A girl came to pick me up to show me how to get to the school because I'm in a hotel during my training period. Training went great... we learned the basics of our days routine, had lunch with the directors, and observed some classrooms. There were only about 8 kids in the class I observed in, which is nice! We have several 40-80 minute classes throughout the day but we got out early today because they figured we would be kind of tired and jet lagged. Although I had someone come pick me up to take me there I was on my own on the way home. I only got turned around 2 times, luckily only in the subway station and I realized before getting on the wrong subway. The transferring is the only tricky part. Tonight I am going to meet the 2 teachers that took me to lunch the other day so they can show me the store that I can get some food and a straightener, which is saving grace... this fluffy hair isn't pretty and just a hair dryer doesn't cut it! The only difficult part is not having a phone, which I probably wont get for 3 weeks, so I had to make sure of where I was meeting them in the subway station and what time and what floor. I hope I can find them tonight or else I'm SOL! The teachers I will be working with all seem very nice. Three of them are in Seoul for a 2nd time just at a new school and 4 of them are around my age so I think we will have fun! Although all of them are already in the apartments and I am the only one in the hotel further away from them the hotel has wireless Internet so I have been able to skype often from the comfort of my room instead of finding a coffee shop that has wi-fi. I'm starting to take more pictures and hope to post them soon on facebook so be on the lookout for them in the coming week. In my downtime I will be trying to learn the Korean alphabet because everyone has told me this will be the most beneficial for me! Well I'm off to study before heading to get a straightener!