Today was my first day of school at the Hogwan. A little bit of background on what exactly a Hogwan is: A Hogwan is a private school that students attend to get taught extra subjects. These students’ parents pay big bucks for their children to attend these types of schools. My school, Top Language School was established in 1973, and is the most prestigious in all of Jeonju. I work at the Seoshin-Dong branch. (A dong is a neighborhood, so it’s the Seoshin-neighborhood branch.) All subjects are taught in English at this school. I have a Korean co-teacher, but we don’t [View Full Entry]

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Today I had my first full day here in Korea. I was waking up every hour because I was scared I would sleep in and miss my lunch appointment with my school’s owner. So I finally got up at 8am, which was still a full 8 hours of sleep. That wasn’t much considering I had slept very little in the last 24 hours. Well I got up and put all of my things in drawers and got my suit cases out of the middle of the floor. I discovered some things that I was missing and chalked it up to absent [View Full Entry]

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An-nyeong! On Friday at 6:30 am, I said good-bye to Mikey and my Aunt and Uncle and hit the road with Mom and Dad headed to O’Hare International Airport. We had a 4 hour car ride before arriving at Terminal 5. I checked in and found out that one of my bags was overweight, so Mom and I shuffled stuff from one to the other and managed to get it underweight. That was pretty much the first and only freak-out I have had so far (knock on wood). Then we went and exchanged some US Dollars (USD) for some Korean Won. [View Full Entry]

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That was the common reaction to my telling friends and family of my new adventure. Actually, that was my reaction, too. So when did this all start? Well, it all started around July 22nd when I was looking for a local job and submitted my resume on Monster.com. I hadn’t gotten any replies on my resume from any local schools in DeKalb or back in Peoria. The frustration was getting to me, so I decided why not? Well, I got one hit on my resume on the first day, and it was from Footprints, a recruiting company out of Canada. I [View Full Entry]

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