The people here are very different. They are always in a rush. Rush here rush there. Don't take it personally when they rush right into you. They need to be somewhere and you are only in their way. The weird thing is they will not say a thing when they run you over. However, they will walk out of their way to get you where you are going when you are lost. I think that they must be the most considerate people I have ever met. Other than the whole rushing thing.
Its funny the People in South Korea have been studying English since the forties. They don't speak English but most people know it. At least written English. If I can't understand one of my students I have them write down what they are saying. If I don't think they can understand me I write it down. My students are very smart. Or should I say they memerize things very well. They are a very prideful people and think it is shameful to be corrected. There for they don't speak the language. Korean sounds are very different from English. That makes it very hard for them to speak clearly with confidence.
Grocery shopping can be very difficult. They add sugar to everything and eat way more meat then I would have imagined. They eat tons of pork. I do not. It is in everything and I am getting good at asking for chicken. Kind of. I mostly buy my fruits and vegetables at the street vendors.
There are over 70 teachers in my district of the city. There are plenty of foreigners around me. We get together on a regular basis. We share ideas so it is pretty cool. It is good to have that support system. Teaching middle school kids is hard anywhere in the world. Teaching them when you don't know their language makes it that much harder. My students are nuts in my class but in the hall ways they are very respectful. In the classroom too but it seems sometimes they are more willing to talk English in between classes.
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Dinner in Nowon. Soju, gross. its like Soki just not hot. taste like Vodka to me not a big fan but you have to when you first get here
Shana, and her whisky. they didn't know how to bring it so they gave her two classes. Shana and Josey in the foreigner bar that had no foreigners in it. That was our quest and it took all night but we found it. 
Ok, so the training had a lot of good info. It did get rather repetitive. that drove me crazy cause we were on lock down. we could not leave the facility because of the group or groups before us got ways to stupidly out of control. 
Good part is i met a ton of people in my area!!!! this pic was the last night. and that is not everybody by any means there were about 200 of us. the crazy thing is there were 200 the week before. that's a little over 400 in total and there were over 1,000 applicants. cool huh.
I got a hold of Robyn. Jess's sister. she was having a going away party for a bunch of her friends. so we went. 
we went to Hung Da, a foriners area in Seoul. we were hopping around till the early morn. I ended up sharing a cab at 4:30am cause i didn't want to wait for the subway to open at 6am. 
here is just the street i see below.
this is how big my window is. Its one whole wall. pretty big. can't sleep in that late. once the sun is up the light is shinning through even with the blinds down.