It's like first week all over again.

Again I'm a little late. Sorry
Well this was my first week at the Nok Ji Won and it was like being here for the first time again. Even though I am comfortable with the teaching aspect, having a new set of kids, who are all much better at English than the kids downstairs, was really weird. The system itself is different than what I am used to also, so I spent a decent amount of time this week just getting to understand whats going on. I'm about half way there I figure.
The good thing is that it was the start of holding so there were very few students and classes, giving me more time to settle in and such. For most of the week I had to give mock teaching classes in front of the head teacher so that they could rate mate. It was more like me asking questions though, because I was so unfamiliar with the material. All in all it went well and it should work out fine. I do miss the guys and Korean teachers from downstairs quite a bit, and I know they are not very thrilled with the lady I traded places with, but hey life goes on.
After work on Thursday, the middle school, which I was a part of so I went with, had an office party. It was the first party outside of the Christmas party that we have had with all the staff and support workers which was really awesome. We went to a bar close to work and set up shop on the entire patio. We ate and drank for a few hours before going to Norae bang and singing our heads off. It was something else to see the Korean teachers having fun instead of ignoring us. i stayed out a bit late and drank a bit to much ..... surprise surprise, and ended up feeling a little under the weather on Friday.
By the end of the day that feeling had passed and we went over to Cheonho for some dinner and drinks. Oddly we barely drink anything but still managed to watch the sun come up while we were debating about Micheal Jackson. Jameson and I were debating that no he should not go down in history with the likes of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Renoir, etc. While Brady was arguing that he's pretty close to on par with them, and one of the new guys Arthur was arguing his popularity (which had nothing to do with the real debate). Saturday was a do nothing day. i went for a walk and got dinner with a Korean friend of mine and her friend, and then just killed time until I went out to Gangnam that night for a few drinks with some other friends.
Sunday was another do nothing day. I stayed in most of the day doing school work for the coming summer intensive period. Then for dinner I went and met up with Margaret, Haley, and two of Margaret's friends that are visiting for a week in Cheonho for some galbi. After that it was back home where I ran into David and got the scoop on watching the FIFA championship game at his place. I agreed and around midnight a bunch of us went out for some beers and snack before going to David's place to watch the game at 330. It was the U.S. vs. Brazil, who ended up winning 3-2 after a great start by the American team. After that it was home to bed to start another week.
Hope you are all doing well. Thanks for reading.