Firsts

Okay, so it's been awhile since we've posted because we are still settling in. We finally moved into our apartment today which has taken some load off because now we can unpack and feel at home. Yesterday was our first teaching day. Whew! Glad that hump is over!! For both of us it was a learning day. We messed up a lot, but hey, who can blame us. Two days of a crash course training can't prepare you for everything. The kids are actually pretty forgiving. Since they don't really know the language, they just sit there and go along with whatever we do and say :) When the day was over, we were glad. Not because it was bad, but because we actually made it through and it wasn't as bad as we thought it was. All that stressing for no reason. Today was our second day, and though we still made mistakes, it was a little easier. I can see now why it will be so easy to teach once we get the hang of it. It's all pretty much repetition. By the end of a week, we will have taught about 23-24 classes, but only about 7-8 lessons which are repeated throughout the week. So you can see there isn't much work to be done to prepare for the classes. Everyone is friendly for sure, but not many go out of their way to communicate with us. We just need to give it more time :) For "dinner" tonight (we technically eat dinner at the school, but we get hungry after work because we don't like a lot of the food provided), we decided to try to go to a restaurant that Sean and Erin took us to. We thought we could just point to the picture on the menu and we would be okay. Yeah, right!! We've figured out that anything red is going to be spicy. We must have forgotten that tonight, because our dish was so spicy hot that I had to ask for a box to go!! After about 5 or 6 pieces of chicken, we just couldn't handle it anymore. Thank God that Erin and Sean left us their phrase book! Jeremy had me ask for a box, but we weren't sure if we should say 'to take away' or 'box'. So I brought the book up to a gentleman in the place and pointed to the Korean characters, then proceeded to butcher how to say it in Korean. :D He figured out what I was saying, but then I had to figure out what he said after that! He wanted to take our food and box it himself. Okay, that's fine! :D We had also asked for water in the beginning, and boy was that funny! The word for water is 'mul', but we didn't know how to pronounce it. C'mon, a three letter word people! After saying it about 5 different ways, the lady finally got it. Nice! So, in the end, we were able to successfully order food, water, and get a box to go, but we were unsuccessful at choosing the right food to enjoy! :D Oh the experiences! They just keep piling up :)