I Have Failed!

Like most that vow to continue a blog and share their travels, I have failed! I constantly walk around and think of what I would say in my blog. However, I always feel like it's too late. I have been in South Korea for 15 months; so much has transpired since I last blogged. It appears the last entry was August of last year... yikes!!

In an attempt to salvage my blog gone wrong, I am going to jump in feet first and just start here. I have been to China, the Philippines, and Japan!! I extended my contract 6 months, switched schools, moved into a new apartment and most importantly have had the extreme pleasure of welcoming my best friend Emma into South Korea. It is safe to say this is the single most life changing decision I have ever made in my life. College is cool, you should definitely go, but travel... travel changes who you are, what goals you have, and how you see the world.

So, here it goes, yet another vow to properly depict what this experience means to me via blog. I can and will in fact document my amazing experience in South Korea in the upcoming 3 months I have left. I am asking for your forgiveness in terms of grammar, possible spelling mistakes and any other ridiculous error I make while blogging. This is because, any opportunity I get, I am just going to write. No fancy stuff.

Recently I worked on a project called “A Day in My Korean Shoes”. Basically I carried my camera around with the hopes of capturing all the key moments of my daily life. Above are a few photos from school. Emma and I work together and we live next door to one another in the same apartment building. I also added a picture of my schedule. As you can see there are several abbreviations such as POL , SCI, LIB. We work in an “English camp”, the classes are all themed, POL (police station), SCI (science), LIB (library). The classrooms are cool and it’s an interesting way for the kids to learn English. We also have classes such as hotel, hospital, karaoke, indoor park, cooking… I really like the schedule from this particular week. Not because I had a day off but because my classes are all different. Generally we have the same classroom for a 2 week rotation. After 2 weeks of teaching hospital class 6 times a day, CPR becomes mind numbing to teach.

In the morning, you can see my fantastic coworkers stand outside ever so enthusiastically to greet the students. The students stroll in wearing their “outdoor” shoes, only to pull out an additional pair of shoes from their backpacks. They immediately switch to “indoor” shoes to avoid dragging in dirt with their street shoes. All schools are like this, all kids wear slippers inside. That’s different. And of course you can see a picture of one of my classes and the little monsters I teach day in and day out.

This is certainly a good start to turn around my epic fail as a blogger. Let’s see if I can keep it up.