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Published: March 15th 2007
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It's hard to give an update of what we're really doing right now. There are no kids, so teaching isn't that big at the moment. I'll explain...
English Village is sort of like a theme park. We've been hired to teach the One Day Program (ODP), which means that kids come to the village for the day with parents or teachers, and buy tickets to certain lessons. We then do the very interactive lessons with them. Apparently 2 weeks ago when it was school holidays the place was flooded, but the schools have all just opened, so the kids are all focusing on their curriculums. Apparently soon it will start to pick up as the schools start bringing the kids here on outings. For now we're supposed to be observing the classes and learning how to teach them, but since almost all the classes have no kids, we're mainly spending our time chatting to the other teachers about how it works.
One of our daily highlights is the cafeteria. They cook local food, and we get meal tickets to eat there for free. It's all buffet-style, so you never really know what you're serving, but the Korean teachers are
Town
Just a short walk down the road. You try to find a photo shop! all very keen to help out.
We've moved into our new flats. They're very well furnished, but couldn't really be much smaller. The bed folds up into a cupboard against the wall. We have a microwave, TV, DVD, and all that kind of stuff each. We even have our own vacuum cleaner and washing machine. I'm trying to explain to Cathy what they're used for, but for now she's still confused. Our rooms also have central heating, which I'm told is as important for cooling in summer as it is for heating now.
One of the guys who's been here a few days more than us took us along to the nearest supermarket on Monday evening. We needed to get a bunch of stuff like washing powder and food. It was pretty interesting tho because almost nothing has English on its packaging. "Um.. I think I found the sugar", "It looks like sugar, but it could also be salt, or some other asian powder that we don't get in SA." We got to the till with a trolley full of stuff, only to find that they couldn't acceot my credit card. It worked in Hong Kong, but not
Flower shop
No fresh flowers for sale here - they're all plastic! any more. Luckily the guy who was with us used his Korean bank card to pay, so we weren't too stuck.
Moy nights a bunch of the teachers get together to play, wait for it, Ultimate Frisbee. Yup, sounds very american, doesn't it. But it's a really fun team sport. I'm definately going to start it off in SA. All you need is 2 teams and a frisbee. It would work great on the beach. I was a bit hesitant about running around outside in sub zero temperatures at 9pm, but it's a very active game, so you end up pretty hot and out of breath.
One thing we've found is that even the simplest tasks can be a real pain if you don't speak the same language as anyone else. Cathy needs to get some ID photos, so we walked all around the nearby town, having to look inside each shop, since we can't read the signs. We had no luck with the photos, but saw some very interesting shops, and got to know the area a bit better.
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Lani
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Yu tai manginka!!
Yeah right,promise you I dont know what that means,but hey gotta give it a try...hehehehe Hope you're havig fun! Just had to say Hi and drop a quick HUg ....................can you feel it creeping up...yessss!!! Have fun!!