GWTF

One more day and I've made it through my first week of teaching in Korea! Honestly, it's everything that I expected it to be (in regards to the teaching aspect of being here). But what I am finding surprising is how much I miss teaching adults! The kids are cute and all but it is a different dynamic. That's not to say I'm not enjoying it, but I do find myself thinking and missing iTTTi - but that could change too. I will hopefully have pictures of my students soon - the classes are so full of work that there is little thought and time for much else. Plus we aren't allowed to bring our phones into the classroom and I have yet to figure out the digital camera - all in good time.

Today was a bit of a milestone for me - I cooked my own dinner! It wasn't much but better than skipping dinner which I do more often than not. Also, today for lunch I tried Kimbap, which is Korea's version of sushi. Except I had Kimbap with veggies, egg and ham in the centre. Best of of all, it was only $1.50!

The students are also very obsessed with coffee. I'm sure this is in part for two reasons: one, they are too young to be allowed to have it, and two, drinking coffee shows high status here. Yesterday, a lot of my students kept saying to me "Teacher coffee" - I guess they could tell I was super tired! Today one of my afternoon kindergarten students brought me a latte from Starbucks :)

More and more I have been enjoying my nightly walks along the river. As sketchy as it may sound to walk along a river in the dark of night alone, it's not. I could not feel safer and it seems the later I walk there more people are out! As well, I always walk through the forested park across from my apartment to get there - which also sounds sketchy but there are always so many people around of all ages. It's really quite nice, and I always feel so at peace there. I always so badly want to just sit on one of the rocks and stay there for hours just listening to the water. I have always loved being near water, it's so good for my soul :)

I know in a year from now I will have changed and grown (probably quite a bit) into a more wonderful person (not to toot my own horn, but I know I am a good person and I think that's okay to know and say). I say that only because even in the last few weeks I have noticed changes already. Going into this trip I tried to have the mindset of "go with the flow" and that's always been a bit of a struggle for me as I am always in need of a solid plan and follow all of the rules (yes, I do hate to even jaywalk). But over the last two and a half weeks I've been here I have already noticed myself "going with the flow" without second thought. Who knows, maybe it's because you just have to when you are in a new culture and country. Either way, I have absolutely no plan for a year from now (which does still totally freak me out) but everyday I feel more okay, little by little, with just seeing where life takes me (although there are some really hard days too). And I am happy to be continually changing and developing into a better me. I think we can all become better people than we are and I always want to strive to be better than I am today.

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