Settling in.

Korean breakfast looks a lot like Korean lunch and dinner: hearty, spicy, and fermented. Yesterday, I had survived off of Korean style “Cup O’ Noodles”, so I was definitely craving some nutrition. I spent most of yesterday sleeping, bathing, reading, blogging, and sleeping with not a lot of energy for things like conjuring up enough language to find real food… ahhh jetlag.

Today was much better, not perfect, but better. Which was good, because Sarah and I had our first meeting fore the camp with the other teachers and our TAs. The meeting went well and everything is really organized. Each teacher specializes in one thing and mine is speech. Sarah’s is speaking and listening. When I chose it, I thought it would be a lot of pronunciation and word stress, which I really enjoy, but it’s actually more like giving speeches. (Which is funny, because on the plane I watched a movie called “Rocket Science” which is all about speech and debate in high school.) This should be interesting since most of the kids are little kids who speak very little English. But, who better to teach kids how to get up in front of people and make a fool of yourself than yours truly. I am a firm believer in acting like dork while your learning.

It was great to meet the other teachers. There are only two other native speakers, both Americans and guys who have been already living in South Korea for at least a year. This is terrific, because they know enough Korean to help us learn the language a little better and get around town a little less awkwardly. We are all in the same building and they are in an apartment similar to Sarah and mine’s, but on the seventh floor. We are all going out to eat tonight with our Korean TAs (five brilliantly sweet Korean girls), so it should be a lot of fun and a little adventure.