Initial Reactions To Bundang

Hey everyone!

We are currently across the street from our kickass apartment at a coffee shop to borrow their internet.

So far this week we have been training at Maple Bear Headquarters in central Seoul. Tomorrow we will be at the school meeting the parents of our new kids. We will both be teaching kindergarden, my students will be 3/4 years old on their first day. Michael's students will be 6/7 years old. They will all be brand new to English and new to our school. This is putting some pressure on both of us to do a really good job because we will be their first interaction with Maple Bear. We really feel that they have done an amazing job preparing us to become teachers and we are getting quite excited.

Here is a map so you can understand where Bundang is located in relation to Seoul:

The area that we have moved to is very different than Songpa, where we came from. There are tons of restaurants in the building that we live in which is great! There is also a convenient store right by the elevator that we go up to our apartment. We also have the 2 stores that we shop at the most (Home Plus and Daiso) very close by. The yatap subway station is right down the street. We found a movie theatre that has English movies and Michael wants to go to Captain America when it comes to Korea in March (woho!) We also feel a lot healthier being here, as you may know I have been sick a lot since we got here. I think we are getting used to all the dust in the air.

We met all of the new teachers except for one. There are two male teachers that are currently staying across the street in a hotel until they can move into their apartments this weekend, we have spent every day this week with them. There are two female teachers that are currently teaching in Korea and haven't been around for training with us. One of those teachers I will be working along side with because we teach the same age kids. We have not met her yet. We had a staff dinner the other night and some of the new teachers came to our apartment. We played guitar, drank wine and talked smart. We are very very pleased with the group of teachers we are going to have at this new school!

We will be getting internet in our apartment next week. We are going to be very busy this weekend preparing our classrooms for Monday when we start teaching. We cannot wait to meet our students, we will be sure to take some pictures of them for all of you!
I think that's all for now...