Sadly enough, Cheongju is not on the list of options for cities in South Korea on this travel blog website. "South Korea" will have to do. But if anyone is wondering I am in Cheongju. We arrived here Friday night. It is currently Sunday evening and we start teaching tomorrow! It's not that easy though: let me rewind. Friday: We get up, pack all of our luggage into a van outside the hotel. There's about 14 of us loading all of our stuff in this van, and riding in it to training. It was a tight squeeze. But before all of that: I am coming out of the elevator with a luggage cart full of 4 bags 50+ pounds each, 3 carry ons, a purse and my training binder. Jake is upstairs getting his huge box ... read more

Where do I start? The last two days seem like they’ve been more eventful than the last 2 months of my life. I’ll try to proceed in an organized manner but I won’t make any promises. Yesterday (Monday) we began training. All of the trainees met in the hotel lobby at 10am and waited for a call van to pick us up and drive us to training. There were 11 of us in the lobby but more trainees showed up at training that had either already been in Korea or had their own transportation. Among the 11, there were 4 girls and 7 guys. 9 of us were from America and 2 were from Canada. We took a bus for quite a while through the city and then across the main bridge that separates the two ... read more

It's 6:30 in the morning and I've been up for over 2 1/2 hours! Darn jet lag. I've been watching videos about English Grammar, trying to freshen up my skills before training starts tomorrow. So this is the deal: If you fail the basic knowledge and skills test, you are not hired, and therefore unemployed in a foreign country with no money to buy a ticket home. Ha ha, let's hope this does NOT happen. We have been watching videos, taking online quizzes over the material, and doing practice questions. Not going to lie, some of the grammar questions really messed me up. 1. My brother is only five feet tall. If he ____a foot taller, he would be a great basketball player. a. was b. is c. were I realize c may sound better, but ... read more

Still here hanging out in Stellenbosch and classes are almost done... just wanted to add some pictures!... read more

Greetings from Knysna! I am enjoying my 10 day spring break. We split from the 51 Americans yesterday and everyone went there own way. Me and 4 girls got dropped off at a car rental place and picked up our extremely small chico. lol...it has been funny. out stuff does not fit. but anyway....last week with the whole AIFS group we did some fun things. We have been so busy, I haven't written anything down and am scared of forgetting what we've done! We went to an elephant park....ostrich farm where you could ride the ostriches, hiked in a beautiful nature reserve along the coast, stayed in log cabin type things for 2 nights, and a hostel literally ON the beach for 3 nights, went to some insanely CRAZY caves that we crawled through (one opening ... read more