One month?! But how did this happen?!
Well, I can't believe it. It's already been a month!! Things are settling down around here. I finally have internet in my apartment. And I have a phone! It's been a game changer. So far it has been much easier to keep in touch with people at home. It has not, however, made me a more faithful blogger. This is my attempt to change that.
I am getting more comfortable at work and every day is a little better. It's nice to feel like I know what I'm doing. Well, at least for the most part. I'm starting to build relationships with my students, which is great. It was difficult coming in the middle of the term and replacing a teacher that the kids really liked. Today we had the first round of a speech contest. It was so cute!! It was fun to hear the students do something other than listen and repeat. There is some room for creativity in the classroom, but not much. I'm learning more about them everyday.
From here on out I'll just put some pictures with captions of what I've been up to for the last couple of weeks. I think that's better anyway. Here we go!!
You would think that of all places, this would mean something else.
A Korean pizza place. They have all kinds of crazy pizza toppings (look for a pizza related food post in the future). I just like the motto.
The view from the coffee shop in Dongtan where I did a lot of interneting before the glorious internet came straight into my house. This is around the corner from work.
That is me!! Remember me!? I'm standing with my Chinese horoscope symbol, the pig. 1983!!
My friend Lauren, from training, and I at Gyeongbokgong. It's a big palace in the center of Seoul. The rest of the pictures are from that Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago. I need to do this more often, or use smaller pictures or something because this took forever!!!
The entrance to the palace. I love the juxtaposition of the palace and the city behind it.
Something nice, also at the palace.
The entrance to the palace, looking out from inside. Check it out. I give you what only the royals could see. Well, the royals and anyone with 3,000 won.
OMG!! I am standing next to the guard!!
Looking the other direction from the entrance. That direction being in.
The main part of the palace.
The beautiful painted ceiling in the palace. For the most part the inside was kind of uneventful, so I don't think I'll put up any pictures. The ones I did take were not as good as I would have liked.
There I am again!!
These paintings were my favorite part.
I have more pictures but the internet is being uncooperative and I'm tired. I'll post more soon. Katrina won't let me wait so long between blog posts. You can all thank her. Also, Lauren (who by the way is from Gig Harbor) informed that when she went back to take pictures of the cherry blossoms, she realized we missed a pretty big section of the palace. Whoops. For the record, there was a folk museum and we got really distracted. Anyway, I've got a ton more pictures, so check back soon!
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