Snack time...

One last blog for the night! I completely forgot about this and Kevin just reminded me!

Everyday this week, we had snack time in the middle of our lectures. During snack time, we were given a 10-15 minute break. There were always snacks like cookies, chips, or whatnot laid out on a table outside our classroom for us to have. Yesterday though, we had what looked like a chicken nugget box, but inside was an entire chicken leg!

I have a school!

Today they told us what school we will be working in. I was placed in Gamjung Elementary School, which houses 1st through 6th graders! I still don't know which grade I'll be teaching yet. The school is pretty far from the downtown area of Busan, which I was kind of sad about, but once I saw this picture, I became much more excited!! This is the view from my school! :)

Bad news is, I think I might be walking up that hill everyday to get to work... On the other hand, the good news is, my legs are going to be amazing by Feb 2010!


P.S. We've been told we probably won't have internet access at our apartments "for a little while." I'm not sure if that means a couple days, or a couple weeks. We have to call to get it hooked up and what not... so if you don't see any blog updates, you know why! :)

Until next time...

Anyahkeysayo!

Farewell...

Last night, they threw a big Farewell Banquet for all the EPIK teachers, since tomorrow we will be loading the busses and heading to our cities! It was filled with WONDERFUL FOOD...


(I called this my baby shrimp)

PERFORMANCES...

This is our friend Rodney from Atlanta doing some free-style! He even incorporated Kev and I... It was something like "Kevin and Jill like Jada and Will." We were amped and felt like a million bucks, because there were about 500 people in the room watching him!


This was a Korean guy who played "You look wonderful tonight!" Kind of a romanic song for a farewell teacher dinner, but nice none the less!


These were 2 people in our class this week. They were AWESOME!

DANCING...

(Carlos dancing with Mimi, the director of the orientation)

(Colin and Kristen)

FRIENDS...

(Jess, Me, and Kristen)

(Rodney and Kevin)

(Jess and Carlos)


AND LOTS OF LAUGHS...
There's a story to this picture!

I asked one of the Korean servers where the restroom was. He didn't understand me, so I spelled it for him. Usually, if you spell words, they understand them right away. After I spelled it, he still didn't understand it, so I made a motion like I was washing my hands. He said "Oh" and started running across the banquet hall. I thought "hmmm, this is a funny way to give someone directions to the bathroom," but I followed him anyway. He stopped at one of the banquet tables, knelt down, pulled up the table cloth, reached under the table and pulled something out. He looked at me, with a huge smile, and a look of utter accomplishment in his eyes, and handed me this pile of NAPKINS!

This morning, we all looked at a map to point out where our schools are....

and said goodbye to each other before boarding the buses.

My lesson plan!

I did it!  I presented my lesson plan with Jess & Rob today and our mentor teacher told us it was PERFECT and that she is going to use some of the activities we came up with! We didn't win the prize for the best lesson plan though... Kevin's group did!! You better believe he flaunted it all day too!


Before we presented, I treated myself to a hot chocolate in the University coffee shop, which is adorable and a great place to hang out here. This cup of hot chocolate was, HANDS DOWN, the best hot chocolate I have ever tasted in my entire life! This is my tribute to my wonderful hot chocolate!