today dawned grayer and gloomier than those we have had so far. although i have yet to see the seoul sun, today was exceptionally moody. the sky opened up with a muggy hot rain which drove me directly into the closest convenience store to purchase an umbrella. i shall not part from it again. somehow, seoul still manages to be pretty cool.
we started training for my new job yesterday, rather, we had orientation, which was markedly easier than the beginning of official training today. i had two training sessions today, and i found out that i will be teaching (and therefore training on) the "listening and speaking" and "reading and writing" portions of the curriculum. this mean that while my students can be either elementary or middle schoolers, they will all be at the intermediate level or slightly higher. they threw a lot of info at us today, and tomorrow we will have to teach mock classes to the rest of the class. its going to be interesting because we are all going to be teaching the same lesson...
today we also had several tests. there was the code of conduct test, which was pretty basic, and the grammar test, which is said to have a pass/fail ratio of 50/50. considering that we have to successfully pass everything during training to maintain our positions, some people were pretty freaked out about the test. while i wasnt overly stressed about it, i must admit that i did my fair share of gerunding and adverb clausing last night. i think it went fine. if 50% fail, then 50% have to pass, right?
after class we had to get a physical. i guess some guy in the past turned out to have TB. despite the multitude of tests, it took the four of us who went at the same time about a half an hour. had that been the us or chile, i guarantee you we would still be there. quite efficient.
below are some photos of the hotel room that alicia and i currently share. sorry, not that much exciting going on. ive been unemployed for a bit, so im trying to get back in to the swing of real life.
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