New jobs and happy days..
Today I started teaching at a new school here in Gangneung. This is a project I have been cultivating for the last two weeks and it finally came to fruition this weekend. Now, I know that you are thinking ‘cunning old Helen, can’t believe that she didn’t tell me, her best friend/sister/brother/mother/pet cat/ someone she met on the street and forced her email address on…’ but superstition dictated that even though I have known about this job since Friday I couldn’t say anything until I had real confirmation. Even now I don’t have a contract yet as my contract hasn’t finished at my old school, so don’t break open the champagne yet!
So the deal is this- I am working at both schools this week and until next Tuesday and as of Wednesday I will just be at the new school.. The new school is located in downtown Gangneung- so my new apartment will be there too. I will be teaching mostly adults but some kids classes in the afternoon. The owner speaks fluent English- thereby getting rid of some the communication problems so common here in Korea.
Anyway, onto other things. It snowed here last week-loads of snow. It started on Thursday in a rather half hearted manner and was still like that on Friday morning. But shortly after I went to school it started to get heavier and after my first class one of my kids brought me up a wee snowman which was very sweet of her. I went outside with the kids during my free lessons to play in the snow but they liked me too much to throw snowballs at me so we just played catch with them until they disintegrated. I took some photos of my kids which I will attach to this mail.
So the snow was pretty and fun and everything but hit at a very inconvenient time- I was due to go to Gwangju on Saturday morning to see my mate’s new baby. I had been looking forward to a bit of hardcore cooing action and was in the restaurant on Friday night insisting to my other mates that I was still going to Gwangju- snow or no snow- when they pointed at the news coverage on the TV- miles and miles of traffic at a standstill, toll booths shut and the expressway closed. When it was still snowing at midnight I knew that it was time to give up the travels as a lost course. Therefore I didn’t make it home to my house until nearly 5am.
Saturday I went to the beach to play in the snow and get some photos. It was q warm day despite the snow and there were loads of people on the beach- taking photos of each other as always. I saw two businessman walking along the beach in their suits, clutching cans of beer at 3pm. I love Korea! Someone had built a snowman on the beach which was pretty cool. Even so I had to leave after about an hour as the sun was going down. I stayed in Saturday night and yesterday I went to a DVD bang and saw a Korean movie. The movie’s English name is ‘Please teach me English’ and it was hilarious! Maybe because it gave us a bit of an insight to the other side of the teacher’s desk. Very funny indeed! Sunday night I had a meeting with the new school’s boss, at his bar downtown, then dinner and a couple of celebratory beers at Bumpin.
And that is all of my news!
Sorry I have been rubbish at responding to your mails. Now I have some good news the sun is out again and I promise to be less crap with replies this month- bearing in mind I have to move next week so maybe without internet connection for a couple of days
Take care all and thanks for all your support over the last month or so.
Love
H
xx
So the deal is this- I am working at both schools this week and until next Tuesday and as of Wednesday I will just be at the new school.. The new school is located in downtown Gangneung- so my new apartment will be there too. I will be teaching mostly adults but some kids classes in the afternoon. The owner speaks fluent English- thereby getting rid of some the communication problems so common here in Korea.
Anyway, onto other things. It snowed here last week-loads of snow. It started on Thursday in a rather half hearted manner and was still like that on Friday morning. But shortly after I went to school it started to get heavier and after my first class one of my kids brought me up a wee snowman which was very sweet of her. I went outside with the kids during my free lessons to play in the snow but they liked me too much to throw snowballs at me so we just played catch with them until they disintegrated. I took some photos of my kids which I will attach to this mail.
So the snow was pretty and fun and everything but hit at a very inconvenient time- I was due to go to Gwangju on Saturday morning to see my mate’s new baby. I had been looking forward to a bit of hardcore cooing action and was in the restaurant on Friday night insisting to my other mates that I was still going to Gwangju- snow or no snow- when they pointed at the news coverage on the TV- miles and miles of traffic at a standstill, toll booths shut and the expressway closed. When it was still snowing at midnight I knew that it was time to give up the travels as a lost course. Therefore I didn’t make it home to my house until nearly 5am.
Saturday I went to the beach to play in the snow and get some photos. It was q warm day despite the snow and there were loads of people on the beach- taking photos of each other as always. I saw two businessman walking along the beach in their suits, clutching cans of beer at 3pm. I love Korea! Someone had built a snowman on the beach which was pretty cool. Even so I had to leave after about an hour as the sun was going down. I stayed in Saturday night and yesterday I went to a DVD bang and saw a Korean movie. The movie’s English name is ‘Please teach me English’ and it was hilarious! Maybe because it gave us a bit of an insight to the other side of the teacher’s desk. Very funny indeed! Sunday night I had a meeting with the new school’s boss, at his bar downtown, then dinner and a couple of celebratory beers at Bumpin.
And that is all of my news!
Sorry I have been rubbish at responding to your mails. Now I have some good news the sun is out again and I promise to be less crap with replies this month- bearing in mind I have to move next week so maybe without internet connection for a couple of days
Take care all and thanks for all your support over the last month or so.
Love
H
xx
posted by Helen @ 10:45 AM
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