It’s now been a while since I have emailed. It’s not that I have forgotten about you but life is now feeling somewhat normal and I can’t really think of anything that interesting to say. Well that was until the ‘change of schedule’. You see in the last 6 weeks I have worked hard to get to know the faces and names of all my students and get into a flow with them. Creating a level of respect and stability in the classroom is sometimes very difficult. It is very important for the kids to have consistency and it has [View Full Entry]

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Gun shop This actually an interesting story because a co-worker of mine went to this gun-range which is in a building in a big market area. He went three weeks in a row and was meant to go last Saturday but it but he never made it (thank god). However, instead his friend got a phone call saying that there was an explosion at the Gun range and that about 7 Japanese tourists died. We were all shocked and just thinking how lucky he hadn’t gone that day. Now Busan is massive right.. it’s the second biggest city in Korea and [View Full Entry]

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Week Three. Hospital This week has been full of fun and adventures and I have saved a lot of money on tissues as compared to last week lol. So I think I will start at Wednesday and my hospital visit. In order to get an alien card which is a card that gives you the rights to get a cell phone and basically live in this country you need to have a medical. The only problem was the fact that the hospital is on the other side of this massive city. Thus as a result I needed to catch a bus, [View Full Entry]

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Week 2: This week has been full of highs and lows. The lows have been enflamed by culture shock and homesickness. Culture shock is not something that I had not anticipated at all. I was of the thinking that ‘oh I have travelled to Korea before and I know what to expect so I will be completely fine’. However, this was not the case at all. Every other time I have travelled I have only been gone for 3 weeks or 6 weeks and you could always see that the finish line is only around the corner but when you are [View Full Entry]

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Wow! What a week. To tell the truth I really don’t know where to start. I might start with my apartment. I’m really lucky as my apartment is quite big compared to what a lot of the different English schools provide their teachers. You see the schools generally supply the apartment as part of the contract so it is generally a small studio apartment that you are given. However, we are very lucky at our school as all of the teachers have a decent sized apartment. My apartment has three rooms that could be used as bedrooms. The one I uses [View Full Entry]

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