One Week In

This is my first post since arriving. I wrote a couple others but since I didn't have internet I didn't post them and now it seems kind of weird to do so. I've been here a week today. So far I love it! The school is great, my kids are all really sweet and my co-workers are super-friendly and helpful.

Dongtan, the city I'm in is really nice. It's all brand new and it's funny because when you look around you realize that about half the buildings are actually empty. It has kind of a funny feel to it, because it looks like a city, but there aren't actually that many people here yet. So there are big streets and whatnot, and hardly any cars on them. And there is constantly new stuff opening up, apparently next month they're opening up another big block of apartment buildings so there will be an influx of new people.

Right by my house is central park. it's this great park with trails for jogging, basketball and soccer fields, tennis, a climbing wall and all kinds of other things in it. I actually got up on Monday and went jogging at 6:30 in the morning! I didn't intentionally get up that early just with the jet lag my body is still having trouble figuring out when to sleep.

I've been trying as much Korean food as possible, drinking as much Korean beer as possible and on Saturday night we went out to Norae Bang, which for those of you who don't know is karaoke. It was so much fun! You get your own room here for it, with couches and whatnot so it's kind of just like dancing around singing in someone's apartment except with giant tv screens. I want to start learning Korean as soon as possible because it's really frustrating walking around not understanding anything at all. Fortunately a lot of the restaurants here have picture menus. And one time the other new teacher and I went to a place that didn't so we resorted to pointing at the poster of food on the wall. It worked out though cuz it was delicious!