My first week of teaching!!!

The weekend was great!On Saturday we met up with Cherry, Andrew, Jen, Scott and 3 of Cherry's friends. We went to Apgujeong first and had an ice cream in Yoochun's ice cream parlour! It was fully of fan girls and pictures of the man in question! Of course I fangirled, having my picture taken under his etc. and the ice cream was nice too! Then we had a meal with our friends. The meal was nice and it was great to see Jen before she went back to the states. We thern went to a club called Monkey beach. It was nice there and they sold cocktails in buckets! I stuck with bear because I don't drink tequila and that seemed to be the drink of choice. Eventually the atmosphere picked up and there were girls dancing on the table! Of course scotty had to join them :) after that we went to the Hill. It was great to be back in Queen. I made a beeline for the stage cos that's where the aircon is! Scott and I immediately made friends on the stage. A boy came up to me and said he'd met me in London. I recognised him but I couldn't remember his name - the same thing happened last year! after two dirty straight men tried to grind me we decided it was time to move on. We joined the others outside then Scott took me into a nearby bar called Soho and introduced me to his friends. I met some lovely lesbians who I ended up having a good chat with. By now Jaron and the others were in a bar opposite. I went into the bar and a man Jaron I met last year was there working! I had a hug and a nice chat with him. It's so nice to go back and meet old faces. I had a really great time. Itaewon is buzzing at night. it's where the gay area and the red light district is. It's also full of foreigners, especially Americans from the nearby base. We went to get food and I witness the funniest row I have seen in a long time. A big fat man was arguing with a black guy. the fat man was so drunk that it was clear that the other man could kill him. He was making a real twat of himself much to the amusement of the many mainly Korean men watching him. I love Itaewon, it's so lively! We got a cab home. A 20 min drive cost us a tenner! we got home at 5am but we had a great night. Tonight we're going out again and this time we get to see David!!!! I love that boy!!! I'm also meeting Sooyoung who I met last year so I'm really looking forward to it.

My first week of teaching has been so much fun! The kids are brilliant! I can't believe the level of politeness compared to the UK. I hand my children their trays at lunchtime and they bow to me!!! I have 7 classes a day and I teach 5 different groups of children during the week aged from 8 -15. My home classes (two of them) are brilliant. all the children have English names and they are not allowed to speak Korean. Their level of English is good and it put's my Korean to shame!

The hours here are 9 - 5.30 but we only teach until 4.30 and there a ten minute break between each class with an hours lunch break. We eat lunch with the kids and the food is delicious. The camp amnagers, Hanna and Mr. han are really nice and they look after us well. When i mention that my fan was on a two hr times and I woke in the night when it went off they got me another one. I've had good feed back so far. Hanna said the children like me and when she observed me she said I was a good teacher and I explain things clearly. So far so good. If this experience continues to be positive I really want to do it again. I keep waiting for something to go wrong because it all seems to be too good to be true. I'm basing that on my experience back home where if you tell children off they can be very vindictive. After teaching here I don't want to teach back at home any more and that makes me feel really upset. I would love come and teach here for a whole year as every teacher I've spoke to here says how good it is. there's 2 reasons I'll never do that. 1) I couldn't leave my family for that long and 2) It will be really hard to leave after being here that long!

I really love it here! Korean's can be unfriendly if they don't know you but once they do know you they are lovely. The food is superb. Everything is cheap! People drink a lot ( a real big drinking culture) but nobody seems to get out of order, aggressive or mouthy (Only fat drunk white men - ha ha)

Observations so far: The ants are really big!

It's hot but it's going to get hotter.

The rain is scary!