Well maybe next time...

Is it just me or do all English teachers who come to Korea put the word adventure in the title some where. I have just started looking at some blogs from other teachers in Korea and it seems to be a trend, that would have been great to know a month ago when I chose the name for this blog. Well maybe next time...

It has been a couple of days and I am settling in to my apartment. This means that I am unpacked and familiar with where everything is in the apartment but I am still learning what everything does. Take the thermostat for example it has many different lights and buttons but I am not sure which button does what which is partly(wholly) to blame for me having cold showers the past three days. I have to push the right buttons to get hot water for the shower and I haven't got the combination right yet. Well maybe next time...

It has been a quite couple of days for me as there have been holidays and so I decided to see how long it takes to walk to the school from my house, a 25 minute brisk walk, which means I will need to give at least 30 minutes to get to school.

Having been here a few days and eating virtually only rice I decided to get some take out yesterday, I knew it was holidays but I saw that some places were still open. While working at Tim Hortons I had often looked at people who had minimal English and joked with my co-workers, "that will be me in Korea" well today was that day. I had wanted to go to a shop just down the street from my house that had pictures with prices on them so what I planned to do was point to what I wanted, easy. Well that place was closed so I went to a restaurant that had people in it across the street. I walked in said hello and realized it didn't have any pictures to point at, also the people that were in the restaurant were the owners, they were just planning what to do for their supper. As it turned out they did not speak any English, they tried speaking to me in Korean but I don't understand any Korea. So I did the only thing I could think to do, I said the three words of Korean that I know, "Hello, thank-you, good-bye" and left. I went home and made myself a bowl of ramen. Well maybe next time...

Today my boss invited me over to their house for lunch, when they picked me up they dropped off a bunch of great stuff, some food(already made) and housewares I was needing. At their place we took the elevator to their floor and there were only two doors, they had half of a floor in this building, their apartment was huge, their kitchen is bigger than my whole apartment, their living room was almost the size of two of my apartments, then 4 bedrooms and two bathrooms and some storage space. Needless to say I was blown away! Oh yeah, lunch was good too.