After an amazing first weekend in Korea, I had to start my orientation. I was hired by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education so we had to do mandatory orientation at a University from Monday to Saturday with 400 other teachers. None of us knew where we were teaching or living in Seoul. It was like school all over again...dorms, rooomate, meals in the caf and I met tons of people. Except we couldn't drink any alcohol, weren't allowed to leave the campus and we had a curfew. Since we were quarantined, we had to do temperture checks twice a day.
Just a couple of my new friends from S.M.O.E
After stressing out for an entire week about where I was going to be living and teaching (I didn't want to be put in the outskirts of Seoul) I ended up getting really lucky. I was put in Cheongdam/Apgujeong area which is like the Hollywood/Rodeo Drive of Seoul. My apartment is a cute decent sized studio apartment about the size of my old room in Toronto and I'm just 25 minutes by subway from my school and main areas of Seoul.
My elementary school that I'm at is great and my co-teacher is very nice and has been so helpful since I've been here. There are about 45 teachers and over 1000 students. I'll be teaching grades 3 to 6. This month I'm teaching grade 5's. 7 different grade 5 classes, 30 kids in each class. The first lesson I taught, I had to read a story about a Mole who got pooed on. It's called "Who's Dung is this?" haha. My work hours are 8:40 to 4:40 but I only work a total of 4 hours a day. The rest of my time is spent making lesson plans, surfing the internet, facebooking or just thinking about what I plan on doing for the weekend. Tough life eh?
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