Finally!

Finally, I have time to update! I have so much to say so maybe I should break it into a few parts.

So, finished training. Definitely take back everything I said before about training not being intense. It was. They were just breaking us in that first day. Essentially, my fellow trainees and I didn't sleep for four days. Luckily, it's over now though!

After training I was taken to my school in Suji, about 20 minutes outside of Seoul, to meet the branch managers and my head instructor, Lisa. The managers seem nice and my head instructor is awesome. Essentially the head instructor acts as a middleman between the instructors and the managers and helps us get adjusted to things here. Lisa's really nice, she's 22 and from the US but her parents are Korean so she is fluent and what not. So after meeting all of them, one of the managers dropped me off at my apartment. The place wasn't cleaned like it was supposed to be so Paul (asst. manager) ran around with a tiny broom and dust rag trying to clean. It was cute. He also bought me a blanket and pillow :).

That night Lisa met me at my apartment and we all went out for a goodbye dinner for one of the instructors at this restaurant. I was at the table with Lisa, the managers and the Korean staff so it was really interesting. They were all impressed that I could speak a little Korean and handle soju though so thank you Gina Ahn. Haha. After eating, we went to KARAOKE :D which was fun. I met my coworkers who all seem pretty cool, and most of them live near me in the same complex so that's a plus. The apartments are nice for the most part, and the neighborhood is really quiet.

The next morning I had to do more training with Lisa because I was trained in a course that I'm not even going to be teaching so yah, a tad annoying but whatever. And then we went to an enormous Korean market, Lotte Mart to get cleaning supplies. Imagine Target on crack. People everywhere trying to sell you stuff, carts scattered around, bumping into one another haha. LOTS AND LOTS OF STUFF. I actually have to go back there in a bit to get more cleaning supplies and food.

And on to the next challenge/adventure... which is... CLEANING MY APARTMENT.

Definitely didn't think this would be the greatest challenge when coming to Suji, but it is. I'm determined to rid this place of it, though! I can't really breath otherwise so that's definitely a motivating force, but I'm also really excited to just make my apartment my new home and it's kind of hard to do that when I am suffocating from dust/mold. I spent the greater part of last night cleaning the main room, which is almost 100% clean now, cleaning dust and stuff out of the windows. Almost dropped my screen two stories down but luckily caught it in time and avoided manslaughter.


Once my apartment is clean and I get a USB for my camera, I'll put up some pics.!