Now that I've been here in Korea for about a week, I've managed to pick up a few words, such as hello and thank you. I can also count to ten, and am learning to write the numbers in Korean. I can write 1-5 well, but am still working on writing 6-10 independently. My students are quite amused when they see me practising on the board while we're between classes. I can read the days of the week, but can't write them yet. When I first arrived at my dorm, my room didn't have any toilet paper. Brandon, my coordinator, managed to find the end of a roll for me for the time being, but I still ran out a few days later. I got to put my Korean writing to the test, to ask the
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