We just had a three-day orientation (I hope you all catch that pun) in Seoul. The city was fun, fast, happening. There are street vendors on every corner and every sidewalk wide enough to fit them -- selling food, books, hats (bought one of those), jewelry boxes and jewels to go in them, nylons/tights, shirts...basically you name it, it's being sold on the street. I think the funniest thing I saw was a camouflage baseball cap with "US AIR FORES Seattle Base" embroidered on it. That's not how you spell 'force,' and there's no base in seattle.
We learned all sorts of interesting tidbits about how to teach English. We also found out that some of the kindergartners will not have ever even been in school before, let alone a school where they're being taught in English. This was definitely news to me, so we'll see how it goes.
Saturday I get to move into my flat, which I am excited to do because then I will really feel like I live here.
This cafe is closing in a few minutes, so I'm off. Oh, and for those of you insisting that I try kimchee, I have decided to have one bite of it each time they bring it with a meal until I can eat it all. I can't believe it, though, some people from the orientation group said they're already addicted to it! I think they have kimchee confused with something else.
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