tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88406970379145738672024-03-19T04:27:17.620-07:00Married MansoursAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609501786032654191noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840697037914573867.post-25501595101028948542015-07-31T05:28:00.000-07:002015-07-31T05:28:51.728-07:00Beach Day! <div class="MsoNormal">
As we're sitting here in our little home on this very <b>hot </b>and <i>humid</i> Friday we can't help but get a little sentimental. It turns out this will be our last Friday here in Hwasun as next week we will take a 7 day trip to Thailand for our summer vacation and a week later we will be flying out of Korea for the last time. Exciting things are coming up here in this next month and we are so grateful for the opportunities that we've had and the ones that lie ahead, but right now, we are enjoying our last moments in our first little home! </div>
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We recently visited the islands of Wando in South Korea. It
is a very beautiful coastal area at the bottom of Korea. A few weeks ago, I
mentioned to my co-teacher that Val and I were interested in visiting Wando and
she got really excited. My co-teacher grew up on an island in Wando and her
main house that she travels to on weekends, is currently located on the
mainland area of Wando. So about a week later, my co-teacher offered to drive us
to Wando and take us on a tour, which we graciously accepted.</div>
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My co-teacher picked us up in the morning and we set off to
Wando along with my co-teacher’s sister and niece. Our first stop was at my
co-teacher’s house. Her house is very unique to say the least. Her whole house
is shaped like a ship and perched on top of a hill. Her husband helped design
the house, which he was inspired by Noah’s arc from the bible. The view was
really beautiful. The house is also a working Pension, or motel like business
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Our next stop was the Wando Botanical Gardens. We spent some
time walking around this beautiful area with many different sections with lots
of flowers and plants. One interesting area was the cactus room! </div>
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Then on the way to our next spot, we stopped at a viewpoint
of the ocean before arriving at the pebble beach. The beach is made up entirely
of smooth stones. The sound from the waves crashing and receding from the beach
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Once our tour was concluded with my co-teacher, they drove
us to another island with one of the most beautiful beaches in Korea, Sinji
Beach. At this beach we met up with our friends Brad and Maranda and their baby
Silas, who arrived a couple hours earlier. We joined them at the spot they set
up camp and relaxed. It was a great place to take in the views and people
watch. The beach culture in Korea is so different than in the U.S. There are
many Korean restaurants set up that are only there during the official beach
season. Also, many Koreans just wear their normal clothes at the beach and into
the water. Many people had sun hats, full-length clothes, and some sort of
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609501786032654191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840697037914573867.post-55170024091747496772015-07-08T05:08:00.002-07:002015-07-08T05:08:35.997-07:00The Beginning of the End <div class="MsoNormal">
We have<i> less than 2 months</i> left in Korea, but it’s
almost time to say goodbye to our students as summer break is approaching.<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;"> Things are
wrapping up quickly both in our school and home lives. The packing of boxes has
begun! We will be shipping some of our stuff in boxes on the “slow boat” home
and will wait for them to arrive sometime in October or so (it’s called the
slow boat for a reason!). It’s crazy to think how fast time has gone. But we
are enjoying our last bit of time in Korea! Here is an update! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">From Tyler: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Korea is on a semester schedule that goes until about the
end of July, followed by summer break. Finals, however, begin much earlier. I
am writing you today while my students that I would normally be teaching are
busily studying for finals that start tomorrow. The weird thing about finals
here is that they happen so early and then there is a period of almost nothing
until summer break begins. For my middle school classes, it is business as
usual after finals and I teach extra lessons that I create. My high school
classes are quite different. Once finals are complete, they are burnt out and
have no incentive to study, so teachers just let them have free time in their
classrooms. During this time, I still go hangout with some students and play
games with any that are interested.</div>
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What this means is that I am basically done formally
teaching my high school students. My high school classes have always been a
struggle, but I’m not overjoyed to be finished teaching them. After getting to
know these students I am really going to miss them. Getting to know someone has
taken on a different meaning here. Truth is, I don’t know most of my students’
names, or much about their lives outside of school. What I do know is their
personalities and spirits. When I first arrived, I had a difficult time
distinguishing many students. They all had dark hair, with similar hairstyles,
and they wore the same school uniforms. Now I look at my students and I think
some of them couldn’t be more different. I may not know their names, but I’ll
never forget them.<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">From Val: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">Lot's going on in the world of Elementary school! In early June almost all
my classes finished with our sections of the textbooks for the term. That meant that for
about 6 weeks complete lesson planning responsibility was on me! This was great
in many ways, I could finally focus on things I wanted to focus on and be
creative! I created a “Skype Project” for my 6<sup>th</sup> grade classes. They
got to interview and be interviewed by my family and friends (Thanks Mom,
Holly, Matt, Rachel, and Tim!) It was fun and my students really enjoyed it!
They couldn’t believe they were talking to an American in America! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My mom! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had them think of questions on their own and from their textbook. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matt! </td></tr>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">The next project I did
with my students was an informational pamphlet with my 6<sup>th</sup> graders.
They chose a topic or 2 and created an informational pamphlet about it. The
goal was to inform my friends and family in America about Korean culture! So they all
got really into writing about Korean food, Korean soccer, and Korean music so
that I can my American family and friends can know everything about Korea! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">While 6<sup>th</sup>
graders were busy making posters, pamphlets and Skpying, the younger grades got
to participate in many English phonics games and activities to help boost their
reading, speaking, and writing skills in English. Doesn’t sound as much fun,
but the students actually enjoyed it and it all worked out! I was highly impressed with my 2nd grade students who I teach without a co-teacher to help me translate things. In one class, I set up 3 activities in stations that students would rotate to every 10 minutes. Each station had something to do with the letters we had been focusing on. I couldn't believe it, but they all were engaged and working the entire class. Not only that, they followed directions, cleaned up the stations when asked, and rotated without any problem. This is a HUGE accomplishment as when I first met them last October they were running around the classroom, yelling, fighting, and not listening at all! Big improvement! ;)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beginning sounds station. Match the picture to the correct letter. "A is for Apple, B is for Ball..." They have a phonics song that helps them learn beginning sounds. It was fun to hear them sing this to themselves as they worked! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every conflict is solved using Rock Paper Scissors or "Gawi Bawi Bo"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A teachers dream...I had to take a photo! 3 groups of 2nd grade students completely engaged and working quietly. Amazing! </td></tr>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">Today my 6<sup>th</sup>
grade students created mini speeches that they will present at the “Fun Fun
English Show” next week. The prompt was “What is your dream?” and students
wrote first in Korean about their dream. My co-teacher and I worked with them
today to translate it into English and create simple sentences as they would
need to memorize this speech. Their answers were adorable and so true to this
group. They all have very big hearts and want to help others. So many of their
answers included things like “If my dream comes true I will donate my fortune
to the poor “ or “I will have a free concert for the country (poor) children.”
I’m sure in their Korean text their dreams were more eloquently stated, but I think they their
personalities shined and it was a fun project to work with them on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">After a week of intensive
review of all 6 units students studied over the past few months, they took
their final test yesterday and now have 2.5 more weeks until summer vacation! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During this time we will have Market Day
for each class! Each student earned stickers for using English and
participating in our English activities throughout the term and now will get to
trade in their stickers for money and purchase many prizes and snacks on Market
Day! It’s definitely their favorite time of the year! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">As our time is growing
shorter and shorter I’m getting more and more sad thinking about <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>leaving my students. I have seriously
been blessed with the best students in Korea! I have seen them grow so much in
the past year and I wish I could be here to continue helping them grow, but I
know a new adventure and new students are in our future! <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609501786032654191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840697037914573867.post-11448232934732134502015-06-22T04:28:00.002-07:002015-06-22T04:28:57.333-07:00MERS – Zombie Apocalypse?<div class="MsoNormal">
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To answer the title, no MERS does not have the potential to
start a zombie apocalypse. If you haven’t heard MERS is kind of a big deal in
Korea. What is MERS, it stands for:<br />
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Much like saying the word bomb in an airport, you need to be
careful when uttering the name MERS in Korea.</div>
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Being a fairly small country with a large population, the
spread of disease is a real concern. The media however plays an important role
to informing people about how to respond to any new threat. Since, I don’t
understand Korean, I’m not sure what people are being told through Korean news,
but it is clear that everyone is very concerned and afraid of this virus.</div>
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In some ways, it has helped reinforce important things like
washing your hands with soap and water. I can’t count how many times I’ve used
a public bathroom or even the bathrooms at school to find that there is no soap
to wash my hands with. Once the MERS outbreak made headlines in Korea, there
have been soap dispensers placed near every sink in my school. When visiting
the large movie theater at the Gwangju bus terminal, I saw signs in Korean
posted next to the soap dispensers that I’ve never seen before. I think we can
assume it has something to do with the MERS virus.</div>
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In other ways, the fear of MERS has become a little
ridiculous. Although not much is known about MERS since it’s debut in 2012 in
Saudi Arabia, it has been found to be transmitted though close personal
contact. Here’s what the World Health Organization has to say about
transmission among humans.</div>
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“<span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The virus does not appear
to pass easily from person to person unless there is close contact such as
providing clinical care to an infected patient while not applying strict
hygiene measures. This has been seen among family members, patients, and
health‐care workers. The majority of cases have resulted from human-to-human
transmission in health care settings.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So far all the confirmed cases (126) in Korea have been
linked spread within hospitals. Sadly, the majority of deaths from the virus
(24 as of June, 19<sup>th</sup>) have been elderly people who were being
treated at the hospital for other serious conditions. Val and I visited our
hospital in Hwasun last week to get a vaccination for our upcoming trip to
Thailand. Being my second trip to a hospital since our original visit during
orientation, I noticed many different things from my limited time in American
hospitals. In Korea, people go to the hospital for almost everything that we’d
normally see our regular doctor for. When going to the doctor in America, I’m
used to arriving 10 minutes early to my appointment, and then waiting about 20
minutes before going to the second waiting room where the doctor and nurses
will come visit you. At this hospital, there are different areas for different
things, so to get our Hepatitis A vaccination; we had to travel to 4 different
places around the hospital. The idea of having potentially sick people run
around a hospital doesn’t seem like the best way to prevent a virus that lives
within hospitals. Oh yeah, and Val’s school insisted that we take a pair of
face masks to wear at the hospital, which d<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">id </span>not have any MERS patients<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">
at the time (and still doesn’t)</span>. Korea does have smaller private clinics
that may be different, but<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;"> thankfully,</span>
we have yet to visit one<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Since MERS is not a very contagious virus and not usually
seen in younger people, there have been no travel restrictions advised by the
CDC. Despite what the CDC says, many schools in Seoul decided to temporarily
close. Schools in Hwasun County, where we live, are not planning to close, but
many school field trips were postponed until further notice. Every couple days,
some teachers ask me how my condition is, just to make sure I don’t have MERS. We
have witnessed thermal screening for bus arrivals at the Gwangju Bus Terminal,
and we’ve heard from other native English teachers that some schools are taking
everyone’s temperature once to twice a day. </div>
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The one thing that blows my mind is that even with some of
these somewhat extreme precautionary measures, we really need to teach people
to cover their cough and/or sneeze. When riding the bus, which is a very
popular mode of transportation for the elderly (the main group at risk), I
cringe when I see people coughing and sneezing with no attempt to cover up. Who
knows what disease could be lurking in those spray particles.</div>
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WE worried about MERS?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In short, not really. <span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">Each night we</span> pray for the people that have been affected by this
outbreak, but we realize the risk to healthy younger people like ourselves (who
do not frequent hospitals)<span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;"> the risk</span>
is very low. <span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;">We’ve both been asked a few
times at random by various staff members “Aren’t you afraid of MERS?!” and each
time we respond with a simple “No.” </span>My co-teachers do not understand why
I am not afraid, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope this virus
will be contained soon and they will not have to fear it either.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> Thankfully, we’re already starting to see a decrease in the
fear of MERS, we’re getting less emails from the US Embassy explaining the situation,
so that’s always a good sign! <span style="font-family: Wingdings;">:)</span></div>
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Anyways, we wanted to write this post mostly to keep as a
memory for us and of course, to inform! <span style="font-family: Wingdings;">:)</span> </div>
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On a side note, we just realize that as of June 20<sup>th</sup>, we have
exactly 8 weeks left in our contracts, which means in 8 weeks we will be
completely moved out of our apartment and on to our next adventure! We can’t
believe it! Prayers for this upcoming transition would be so appreciated! <span style="mso-fareast-language: KO;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609501786032654191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840697037914573867.post-57222161446503344912015-06-17T04:19:00.001-07:002015-06-17T04:19:18.524-07:00Day trip to Jeonju! <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The first weekend </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-language: KO;">in</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">
June, we took the opportunity to visit the city of Jeonju, (aka “the slow
city”). Jeonju is a popular destination for foreigners and Koreans alike. The
most popular place in Jeonju is Hanok Village. A hanok is a traditional Korean
home, and there are over 800 hanoks all in this one area. Some of the hanoks
are actual homes for people, but there are many that are different types of
shops and restaurants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">When we first arrived, we stopped in the visitor’s center
for an English map. Then we walked around looking for a place to have lunch.
Jeonju is known for many things, one being their bibimbap, a Korean vegetable
dish with </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-language: KO;">rice, </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">egg,
bits of meat, and sauces all mixed together in a bowl. We have had bibimbap on
many occasions, and although this is some of the best bibimbap we’ve ate in
Korea, neither of us are huge fans. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> 4 choices of bibimbap</td></tr>
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There are so many fun looking treats in Jeonju that we have not seen anywhere
else in Korea. We had an ice cream cone, with cotton candy around it, and
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paper, which they use to make lots of cool things and nice fans. Some stores
even had little fan displays like a mini museum. In some stores people can pay
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to find another treat we wanted. This time it was ice cream with shaved ice
around it! I think we’ve pointed this out many times before, but Koreans seem
to have an obsession with </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-language: KO;">President </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Obama.
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shaved ice. We think it’s because he’s from Hawaii and this was a “Hawaiian”
shaved ice place. </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-language: KO;">It was funny to see. </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">It
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trail up a hill on the edge of the hanok village for some nice view. You can
see all the traditional Korean rooftops along with the industrialized skyline
in the background. It a great little hike we’d recommend if you ever visit
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though because every time we slowed down he turned on his emergency lights.
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Jeonju on our list of places to go before we leave Korea! Other places on our
list include the beaches of Wando, the green tea fields of Boseong, and
possibly Yeosu, a coastal city. Unfortunately, the weather is starting to not
cooperate as much anymore as we have transitioned into summer…aka the hot,
humid, and very rainy season! But we want to make the best of our last few
months here, rain or shine! So hopefully there will be a few more trips to
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the 2 civilians actually cleaning the stairs of the N.Korean side. We never expected to see civilians on that side, especially during our tour. We heard that is rare. </td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609501786032654191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840697037914573867.post-85820447560183212512015-06-02T05:40:00.001-07:002015-06-02T05:40:11.934-07:00To stay or not to stay...that is the question! ;)<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’ve had a wonderful May in Korea and have been enjoying the spring weather! There is so much to blog about, but before we post about our adventures, we have a big question to answer…..<i>Are we staying in Korea or Moving home? </i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teaching in Korea is an amazing experience and both Tyler and I have learned </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>so </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">much! However, we feel we have gotten to a "plateau" of growing as teachers here. Not being able to truly communicate with our students is not just challenging, but it takes out some of the true </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>“deeper teaching”</i></b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that we desire to do. We know we are highly beneficial to students learning of English and confidence in their abilities, and we love that! But we aspire to go deeper in our teaching as well!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We would like to start our Master’s Degrees. After getting your initial teaching license in Oregon, you have 6 years to complete a Master’s degree to keep your certification. Obviously, we have plenty of time still to complete it, but we would like to pursue our Master’s sooner than later. After teaching here for a year, we are also excited to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><b>continue our education</b></i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and gain more understanding of our craft. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are really excited to teach at home again. We loved our student teaching experiences and honestly, we’re both itching to teach in our own classrooms. With new experiences behind our belts, we’re excited to take what we’ve learned into our future classrooms. We’ve grown a lot while here and can’t wait to see how that impacts us when we come back! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We can’t say this decision hasn’t come with some big “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>fears for our future</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">" as well as many </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>"What if?</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">" questions related to if we would have chosen to stay here! However, we know God has a plan for us! Though this transition out of Korea is going to be very bittersweet, just as it was coming here, we hope we can enjoy the last few months to the fullest! </span></div>
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />So what's next? </b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">We can’t wait to see our family and friends again this coming September! We'll plan to start our Masters soon after that while also substituting as much as we can! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">To our family and friends, we love you all and thank you for your support and encouragement while we have been here! <3</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609501786032654191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840697037914573867.post-39314490054282491762015-05-05T00:31:00.000-07:002015-05-05T00:36:38.059-07:00Weekend in Busan!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">We just back from a wonderful 4 day trip to the city of Busan, the 2nd largest city in Korea! And for good reason! It’s huge! 4 days was not enough time to see it all, but we did explore as much as we could and experienced some great things! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the bus terminal we found a fun activity! ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very hard to find hotel, but it was worth staying here! </td></tr>
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We hope everyone has been enjoying the sunshine when you can find it! ;) We have had some nice days here in Korea and now it's starting to warm up even more! Yesterday it was even hot enough to wear a skirt to school (a big jump from when we were wearing long underwear, heavy coats, and thick socks to school everyday). However, today reminds me of Oregon as it's been very rainy and cloudy. But that's ok, the sun will return later in the week! :)<br />
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This past weekend was beautiful here! On Friday we were able to meet up with our friends Natasha and Nick, who live on the southern coast of Korea. Our story of how we became friends is very interesting. Last year we both were following the blog of another English teacher, Lily, who lives in Korea. Reading other peoples blogs helps future English teachers get the feel for Korea and learn more about daily life. Sometimes both Natasha and I would comment on Lily's blog and mention things about our future plans. It turns out both of us were planning on applying to the same program in Korea and Lily brought us together by letting us know that! From there we started emailing back and forth, comparing application experiences and such. Both her and her husband and Tyler and I were all set on coming to Korea in August until there was a surplus of new teachers and some teachers needed to be pushed back to the November intake. Somehow Tyler and I were able to keep our August departure, but Natasha and Nick had to wait until November to come to Korea. We continued to talk through social media and after all those months of talking and communicating we were able to meet up in Gwangju this weekend!<br />
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It was really great to finally meet them in person and we had a great time eating delicious food at our favorite Western Restaurant!<br />
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On Saturday we knew it was going to be extra nice outside so we wanted to go explore more of Mt. Mudueng, the mountain we hiked on earlier this fall. Now, we say mountain, but in comparison to mountains in Oregon, this is just a tall hill. ;) We figured out how to take the bus to the base of the hiking area and it was really easy (and fairly quick too!). So off we went on a mini adventure! The mountain is very beautiful and definitely not a walk in the park to hike , but it was fun! We randomly chose a direction that we were pretty sure we hadn't climbed the last time and started off!<br />
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I know we've definitely talked about this before, but hiking culture in Korea differs slightly from America. All hikers are fully dressed in colorful hiking cloths. Most have a hiking pole or 2 and generally all hikers have a small hiking backpack stuffed with many hiking supplies, which commonly includes alcohol of some sort. Korean's cover their entire bodies with cloths, shielding it from the sun. Their nice hiking cloths are probably breathable, allowing them to wear them in the hot sun. But it's definitely different seeing the face masks and bandana wrapped around their heads with a giant hat or visor to complete the look. Needless to say, we look extremely different than the norm. </div>
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The hike up was pretty vertical, but thankfully not too long. It was beautiful walking next to a stream and seeing lots of little chipmunks! Once we made it to the top (of where we wanted to go) we walked through this paved area and got many views of the city. It was very nice! We even got to fill up our water bottles with fresh and cold mountain water! </div>
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On our way home we were trying to decide what to eat for dinner. Thankfully the "Chicken Man," as we call him, was right outside our apartment complex. He sells roasted chicken on the street for only 6,000 won (~$6). So we bought a pre-cooked roasted chicken for dinner and thoroughly enjoyed not having to cook that night! ;)</div>
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<br />We did it! We finished posting about our wonderful January vacation! Still working on the videos (because we took a lot!) but we're glad we finally caught up! Thanks for reading! :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609501786032654191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840697037914573867.post-26305424117561601452015-03-07T04:51:00.001-08:002015-03-07T04:51:13.330-08:0072 hours in Beijing! <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It’s February now, wow!! January went by so fast as it was a mixture of a fast paced winter camp and 16 days of amazing vacation time! We wanted to write about our amazing vacation to remember it forever! My parents joined Tyler and I on a 10 day adventure through Asia and it was such an amazing time together! The next few posts will be dedicated to our vacation! </span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Standing on the North Korean side with a South Korean guard.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From here, our DMZ tour was over and we headed back into Seoul after going back through the 2 checkpoints. We stopped at a Amethyst factory and were dropped back off in Itaewon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our next blog….Day 2 in Seoul and Travels to China! </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609501786032654191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840697037914573867.post-38938751025122542812015-01-15T04:15:00.003-08:002015-01-15T04:20:04.918-08:00Winter Camp!<div class="MsoNormal">
<b> Wow</b>, it’s the middle of January already! We hope everyone’s
start to the new year has been wonderful! Today I finished my last day of
Winter Camp at my school! That means it’s finally time for our Winter Vacation!
We get 24 days (including weekends) and we are splitting our vacation between
January and February as we have 2 weeks of regular school in February. It’s
confusing, as it’s very different than US schools. But we are so very excited
for vacation #1!</div>
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are very common throughout Korean elementary, middle, and high schools! They
all vary in length of time and expectations, but the goal is for students to be
exposed to English while regular school is out of session.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nicole helping our students make Inushuks out of play dough!</td></tr>
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This was my first English camp and I was thankfully paired
with 2 other English teachers for this camp! Liz (from Canada) and Nicole (from
the US) and I worked together to come up with many activities and lesson plans
for our 10-day camp. This is really rare to have so many teachers for one camp,
but we were very grateful for it!</div>
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theme was “Winter” since its very broad and we could come up with many
activities centered around that theme. It was really nice to break up the
responsibility between 3 of us and put all of our talents together! Liz is a
great singer and wrote a song for our students to learn, Nicole is a great cook
and shared some great recipes with the students, and I like to dance so I
taught students a few different dances! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liz taught the students the song she wrote and we learned the "Cups" pattern!</td></tr>
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Besides those activities we had a million (well…almost a
million!) other activities planned for the kids. We learned all about penguins
and the Inuit culture, conducted science experiments, made lots of arts and
crafts, and played games! It was really fun to have the flexibility and freedom
to do basically whatever we wanted! We were very lucky to have a very large
budget to purchase supplies for this camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not all schools have this type of budget, but it definitely
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The students in the Tye Dye T-shirts we made! </td></tr>
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We had 26 students for this camp and at least 23 showed up
every day! I’d say that’s great attendance! Though our camp activities weren’t
from a textbook, we felt our students learned a lot of English through the
activities we did. Because it was 3 native English Teachers teaching the entire
camp, they were almost forced to use their English as much as possible to
communicate! They did a great job! It was a nice feeling when my Korean co-teacher
praised us for having engaging activities for the student’s everyday. We felt
proud of our camp and of all of our students! </div>
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Here is a slideshow video I put together for my students on
the last day! </div>
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Tyler’s winter camp was very different than mine! He had 4
days of English camp with a total of 8 students. Unfortunately, not all of his
students showed up every day and on the last day, he only had 2 attend!
However, he planned great English activities for them and they were even able
to enjoy some fun activities like making hot chocolate, participating in a
scavenger hunt that lead to a prize of popcorn, and playing fun American card
games like “Spot it!” He did not get an extra teacher and his Korean co-teacher
wasn’t even present for any of it! So, he definitely had to communicate with
the students without any help with translating at all! </div>
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Though our camps were very different, we both worked hard
this January to continue to help our students work on their English! It was a
great experience for us to see what “English Camps” are and now we are more
prepared to plan Summer English Camp next August! <br />
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Can you see their enthusiasm dancing? ;) Haha, just kidding! As much as they usually like dancing, they are horribly embarrassed to be on camera....</div>
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Tomorrow morning we leave to go to Incheon Airport to meet
my parents! It’s exciting to think they will finally be in Korea! We will visit
Seoul for a few days (including visiting the DMZ!), travel to China for 3 days,
and come back to Korea to stay in our hometown of Hwasun! It will be an
exciting 10 days and we cannot wait to begin! Until then….it’s time to clean
and pack! ;) </div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We wanted to have this posted by December 31st as it's all about the month of December..but we're a little late. ;) </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">December proved to be a weird month in Korea (as teachers and foreigners at least!). As the holiday season began, homesickness got worse. We tried to stay positive and enjoy our new and interesting holiday season, and what do you know, we did it! In just a few weeks my parents will be here and we will be on vacation! God is so good and we are truly blessed! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">An amazing and wonderful thing that happened this December was that my nephew was born! My older sister, Savannah, and brother in law Cole, welcomed baby Bennett Morgan Hise into the world on December 2nd at 3:11pm! After a long and challenging labor, she finally delivered him via C-section. It was no wonder, as he was 9 lbs 8 oz!! Tyler and I are thrilled to be Auntie V and Uncle Tyler to now 3 precious nephews and a niece! We can't wait to meet Bennett! :)</b></span><br />
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Happy New Year to everyone! We hope 2015 bring lots of love, joy, and good health to all! We are so excited as our winter vacation is only 1 week away now! We are so happy to have my parents visit us in Korea next week and we will even take a trip to China! More blog posts to come! :)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01609501786032654191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840697037914573867.post-83442429215366591082014-12-16T04:14:00.000-08:002014-12-16T04:15:23.576-08:00Mansour Family Visit Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Well it’s been almost a month since we’ve last posted
(woops!). After our Seoul trip we quickly got back into our normal school
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A few fun and not so fun things have happened in the last
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1~<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We baked sugar cookies with our Saturday middle
school class. They enjoyed baking and were shocked at how much butter and sugar
were in the cookies. It was a struggle to bake with the butter because it was
so cold the butter was very hard! So they had a challenge measuring and creaming the butter but it was funny
to watch! They really enjoyed using the cookie cutters and knives to
create their own shapes. We had them try our favorite canned vanilla frosting
and they hated it! I’m not sure why, maybe it was too sweet? But they enjoyed
eating the cookies fresh from the oven! Most Koreans have never baked before so it was fun giving them this experience! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It took teamwork to cream the butter and sugar, but they did it! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This girl was creating the letters "EXO" as a dedication to her favorite K-Pop band.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty cookies! They chose the colors....</td></tr>
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and we enjoyed walking around the little park area looking at the different
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">3~ </span>We got sick. This was a not so fun thing. Tyler
came down with a pretty bad cold and a few days later I got a few of those
symptoms (not a bad cold though thankfully!). We were grateful for our stash of
cold medicine and throat drops! We even got to go to the Korean pharmacy to get
cough medicine. It was easy as we just role-played fake coughing and the
Pharmacist knew just what to give us! It worked really well too and was very
cheap! </div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">4~ </span>We attended our church’s worship night and
really enjoyed that time! It was on a Saturday night and they even fed us a
pizza dinner before hand. We met some new people and really liked the speakers
and songs that were sung. </div>
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our kitchen! It has been so fun (and comforting) to be able to bake again.
We’ve baked cookies and banana bread for our schools so far and have had a lot
of fun with it! We bought this oven from another English teacher whose contract
was up and was leaving Korea. We are so grateful she sold it to us for a low
price and even gave us a bunch of her extra baking supplies! </div>
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<i>Anyways…</i>by the title of this blog post your probably
thinking we’re about to rant about the terrible culture shock we’ve experienced
and are experiencing! But actually, we are writing to day to tell about the
fun, interesting, and yes, different things that make the Korean culture
unique. None of the things we are about to talk about are meant to be offensive
or rude. We are simply documenting our experiences so that we can inform everyone and
record them for the future! Each culture has aspects to it that do not make
sense to foreigners (you know how many time’s I’ve been asked by a Korean about
certain American customs?) and each culture does things differently. We came to
Korea knowing and understanding that things would be different and that has by
far been the best thing we could have done for ourselves. We try to have a open
mind and positive attitude towards new and different experiences and so far,
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something we totally forgot to blog about in the first few posts. Instead of
calling teachers Mr. Mansour or Mrs. Mansour they call you by your first name +
teacher! So we are Val Teacher and Tyler Teacher. </div>
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At first it was hard to get used to calling ourselves by our
first names, since in our culture we call teachers by their last names, but we
got used to it eventually. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of
Tyler’s students now just call him “teacher” or “Tyler” but my elementary
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bus culture:</b> So
many people ride the bus in Korea. From kids to very (VERY) old people, the bus
is a main transportation system for all types of people. Early on we figured
out that middle school and high school kids ride the bus to get to school, so
sometimes the bus is so crowded and we are so squished. Other times, we can
have the bus all to ourselves for a period of time. In Korea, it is basically
mandatory that if a person who is older than you gets on the bus (and there are
no other seats available) you give us your seat. If someone else beats you to
it, then you don’t have to, but it is seen as respectful towards your elders.
This “respect” rule unfortunately doesn’t apply as a foreigner and/or a
teacher. As much as we are respected in the classroom, we definitely do not get
seat preference on the bus, nor do we get preference on getting on the bus!
It’s always a mad dash to get on the bus in the morning and everyday is interesting!
Something else we find interesting about busses is how many older people actually
use the bus. These people are generally very old, have the typical hunched over
back (and when we say hunch we mean sometimes we see 90 degree hunches!) and
are still getting around! It’s amazing to see them so active in the community.
Not only are they getting around, but they are carrying bags of produce to see
at the market. People hear are proud of their independence and we love seeing
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was our Monday ride. Tyler estimated about 60 people on this bus. Thankfully that only lasts for the first 10 minutes or so. </td></tr>
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Something we find funny is that there are no drinks served for lunch. Instead,
students have their milk as a snack in their classroom sometime during the
morning. All the students and teachers seem to be ok with this and they do not
need a drink during their meal. However, we are not ok with that. We both have
to bring our water bottles to lunch everyday for this reason. It’s not a big
deal at all, just interesting! </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Open windows, open
doors:</b> This is probably by far the most confusing cultural aspect to us. In
the summer the windows and doors were kept open all day to let air flow (since
schools do not have air-conditioning, or heating for that matter). This made
sense and was perfectly fine with me! Then it started to get much colder,
especially in the mornings, yet all the doors and windows in the school were
STILL open!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve asked why once,
and the answer I received was that Koreans believe that having the doors and
windows open let’s the sprits flow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So we deal with it. We now have to wear our jackets and long underwear during
the school day to keep warm. It may be time upgrade our jackets too! Winter is
definitely here! Thankfully, at my home school I have a personal heater I can
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My new best friend. This personal heater is a life saver!</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No shoes at school:</b>
We’ve talked a few times about how we wear slip on sandals at school instead of
shoes. This was really fun and interesting in the beginning when we arrived and
it was summer time. The weather was warm and it was nice to wear sandals around
during the day. However, now that is it cold, our feet are cold too! We have
been on the hunt for thicker socks so that we can keep warm! Now that it’s
“Boot season” I’ve really wanted to wear my boots to school, that would be much
warmer! I am now seeing some teachers wear more slipper like shoes (you know,
the ones with the fur inside?) and I’m thinking that might be a good idea!</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Car Seats</b>: In the
US, child car seat laws are widely agreed upon and basically universally
followed. In Korea, not so much. It is amazing to me to see so any children without
car seats! Not only that I have seen many children, including toddlers sitting
in the front seat of a car! This always makes me feel uneasy but it’s a
cultural thing that is out of my control! </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Ajumma culture:</b>
The older women in the culture are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>called Ajumma’s and are highly respected, as they are our elders. They
are strong, independent workers of society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of them still farm and sell their crops on the busy
streets of Hwasun or the side of the country roads. It’s pretty amazing to see
as they are obviously old enough to be retired and relaxing at home, but
instead they are trying to make a living! We found out that one reason is
because they were in the generation that was not able to get social security
benefits or anything of the sort, mostly because they are generally farmers,
and because that system was not set up for them at the time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These older people are very strong and
independent. I’ve seen many older people carrying heavy bags, pulling heavy
carts, or even carrying heavy bags of produce on their heads! It’s incredible! It
can also be sad at times seeing these women selling things on the street from
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Garbage Cans:</b> We
noticed early on that public garbage cans are a rarity in Korea. It is hard to
find someplace to throw your snack wrapper or drink cup away while walking on
the street. So instead of placing it in a garbage can, people actually create
garbage piles in certain spots. Sometimes there are full garbage bags sitting
on the side of the street that people also put their trash around. The streets can
get pretty bad and have lots of these piles all over yet sometimes trash is
non-existent. It’s very interesting. One cool thing we saw in Seoul was that
there was a big festival one day that went late into the night. As we were
walking back from our hotel we saw garbage and bottles every where. The next
morning we got up early to go to the bus station and saw many workers cleaning
up the street. We were glad someone was cleaning it up but surprised there were
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Across the street from our apartment. I'm sure within 48 hours it was gone, but still interesting! </td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Volleyball:</b> Every
Wednesday, most public school teachers around Korea play volleyball after
school. The main reason is for staff bonding time. At Tyler’s school, he has
the option to play or not to play depending on his schedule. At my school, I am
required to play. Tyler’s school is more for fun and has a relaxed environment,
but my school is a little more competitive. At my school we have only played
twice since I started due to many reasons such as principals on business trips,
holidays, testing, and so on. It’s an interesting cultural aspect, but really
goes along with how Koreans enjoy and feel it is important to spend time
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><o:p>Neungju volleyball day. <b> </b></o:p></td></tr>
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Although these are not as common as I’m sure they used to be, squat toilets
were somewhat of an actual culture shock for me. I knew about them, but in my
ignorant mind, I didn’t actually think I would encounter them. Nope! Day 1 of
being at my school I knew that I had bathrooms right next to my classroom. I
was so happy about that because that’s obviously very convenient! I walked into
the stall and there it was, a squat toilet! I checked every other stall just in
case there was another western style toilet, but there wasn’t. So that was an
experience, but thankfully I found out that there are western style toilets on
the first floor, and all is well now. I see squat toilets every once in a while now in certain places, but for the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Toilet Paper:</b>
Speaking of bathroom stuff…another difference in cultures is about toilet
paper. It is very common here not to flush your toilet paper. Instead, you throw it away in a small trash can next to the toilet. The reason for this is that the pipes and sewer systems were not strong enough for toilet paper to be flushed.
Also, squat toilets cannot handle toilet paper at all. So it became custom to just throw it away. Though this is very common, it is generally
safe to flush your toilet paper in new buildings if you’re using a western
style toilet. Tyler and I generally do not participate in this custom in public
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We can’t believe it’s the middle of November already and in
no time it will be December! Time is flying by! Tim and Donna (Tyler’s mom and
brother) will be arriving here in Hwasun this coming Saturday! We could not be more excited! Also, my sister is due with my new nephew Bennett Morgan in just about a week and I cannot wait for him to come into this world! :) We can't wait to blog about all of that later! For now we
are preparing our home for our guests, getting our thanksgiving ingredients together, and
enjoying our time here in Korea!<br />
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Here are a few videos from our Seoul trip, how we do laundry in Korea, and our surprise first dance from our wedding! :)<br />
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Can you believe it’s the middle of October already? We
can’t! It seems just yesterday we were in the middle of summer preparing for
our wedding! Time has flown by, and we are already 2 months into our 1-year
contract!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can definitely tell
how time has passed here in Korea. When we arrived it was hot humid, and didn’t
get dark till later in the evening. We went everywhere in shorts and slept with
the AC and fan! We are really excited for Fall now! The weather
is much cooler, we wear jackets or sweaters to schools all day, and we don’t
need the AC anymore! Back home in Gladstone, the main street called Portland Avenue, had rows of beautiful trees that always changed colors during the fall. It was
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mornings and sunshine afternoons! We even have some rain every now and then which reminds us of home. :) </div>
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We have had 2 weeks of weird schedules (schedule changes,
days off, traveling) and have really enjoyed the time off and the opportunity
to explore the country! But now we are ready to get back into our normal
routine and have a weekend off to just rest! </div>
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We made our very first trip to Seoul, Korea last week! We were really
excited to finally visit the largest city in Korea! We’d heard many great
things and couldn’t wait to get there! We decided it would be great to go
during our 4 day weekend because after that, we weren’t sure when the next
opportunity would be to get there! So the plans were made and we set off on
that Thursday! I’ll let Tyler explain! <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Wingdings;">:)</span></div>
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We departed for Seoul by bus Thursday afternoon after
enjoying lunch at Burger King. (We weren’t big on fast food back in the U.S.,
but it’s the only place to get a decent burger for a reasonable price around
here.) Anyways, the buses to Seoul are very nice. They are similar to what you
might think of flying first class on a normal flight (not international). Val
and I both enjoyed kicking back and taking a relaxing nap. About halfway
through the three and a half hour ride, buses pull over at a rest stop. The
rest stops in Korea are awesome! They have a bunch of stores and shops where
you can buy all sorts of food and snacks. They also have huge bathrooms to
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After arriving in Seoul, we headed out to the subway, which
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Seoul is amazing! The subway trains come by very frequently so we never had to
wait too long, they have English postings and translations of all the stops
everywhere, they make very quick stops, and the cost is very cheap! Also,
usually one floor above the subway platform, they have more shops, which
sometimes include places to buy clothes, shoes, phones, and most importantly,
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We took the subway to Itaewon, a popular foreigner
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for dinner. We had a craving for some Mexican food, so we ate at this nice
little restaurant near our hostel. Then we set out to explore Itaewon! </div>
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stores with brand names, and big restaurants. On one side of the strip is all
the bars and clubs (some of them look like really cool places), which is where
the all night partying happens. Then on the other side is a bunch of narrow
streets with restaurants selling just about any food you could want, and all
kinds of clothes including tailor made suits. Our hostel was located on a
street famous for it’s antiques (which may or may not really be antiques). So
it was close to the fun, but nice and quite at night. After we finished
exploring the area, we stopped for some dessert before turning in for the
night. We ate at a place that serves real waffle and ice-cream sandwiches. So
basically, they make a waffle, put a flavoring spread of your choice (i.e.,
chocolate, strawberry, cream cheese, peanut butter, ect…), then they give you
three scoops of ice-cream, which you can choose chocolate, vanilla, or both,
and finally they top it off with chocolate syrup, chocolate chips, or
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After sleeping in and grabbing lunch at taco bell, we were
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Needle in Seattle and sits atop a hill in the middle of Seoul. After asking
someone at our hostel, we decided to set out by foot and walk to the tower,
(which we were told was about a 45 minute walk). Our walk took us up a series
of hills, which ended up being the neighborhood where all the foreign
ambassadors live. We had fun looking at all the homes and seeing which
countries they belonged too. Most of those homes must be million dollar homes
at least. After about 45 minutes of walking and still nowhere close to the
tower, which was taunting us in the distance, we made the most miraculous
discovery. Within a small foreign food store, we found root beer and ranch
dressing! If you didn’t know, it is no easy task getting your hands on either
of those goods here in Korea. To celebrate our victory and save us from walking
for the next hour and a half, we caught a taxi to take us the rest of the way.</div>
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The taxi dropped us off right in front of the gondola, which
takes people up to the tower. We bought our tickets and waited in line. We have
heard horror stories about how busy it can be, but we didn’t have to wait too
long. Once we got up to the tower, you almost forget you’re in the middle of a
giant city. At one of the lookout points, they have metal fencing, which people
attach locks to. Val and I purchased a little blue lock, which we wrote on and
attached it to a spot on the fence. We have keys and maybe someday in the
future we can try to go back and find our lock. In another area right next to
the tower, there was some sort of cultural performance going on displaying
different old weapons. While walking toward the tower, we got asked 5 times to
be in pictures with complete strangers. Not all of the people were Korean
either. The last time was a group of several students, so after they got their
picture, we asked for one of our own with them! Now it’s time to go see the
tower, which I will let Val tell you more about!</div>
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We finally got to the entrance of the tower and bought our tickets to go to the top. We got a great deal! It was $20 for both of us to go to the top and it included a large popcorn and 2 drinks! We were happy with that! We proceeded inside, got our food, and took the really cool elevator (that has a TV on the ceiling) to the top. Once we got up there we were pleasantly surprised with the fact that it wasn't super crowded. We had space to move around and take as many photos as we pleased. Around the windows were labels with the different cities or countries in the world and how far away they were. There was a great little booth set up where you could purchase post cards, write on them, and mail them from the top of the tower. Obviously, it was just another way to get people to buy their postcards, but it worked! We totally bought postcards and sent them to our parents! And we had fun doing it, so that's what counts, right?</div>
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On our way back from the Seoul Tower we stopped at the
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like these that we really feel like we are in another country! You can buy
anything from clothes, toys, and souvenirs, to things like live octopus,
gardening supplies, and custom bedding. Val and I got some fun things for
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we were craving gyros. Dinner was great and then we decided to drop our bags
off at the hostel before going for a stroll. We went of a walk up and down the
main strip in Itaewon and had fun just hanging out. Of course we stopped for
some more dessert along the way, Val tried a doughnut, and I got an ice-cream
cone! Korea has SO many different sweets everywhere and we decided it is our
responsibility to try them all! Just kidding, but we have done quite well so
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was a very busy day! We first decided to go visit Bukchon Hanok Village, a
historic village that has over 900 traditional houses that are occupied with
residents. It was a quick subway ride to the neighborhood. Once we got off, we
found a nice little information booth. Right as we walked up to it the ladies
inside quickly grabbed us a English map and we were on our way again. We could
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officially one, so there are no real signs or postings about it. Apparently you
can get some sort of tour guide to walk around with you, but we decided just to
take a quick walk through by our selves. It was cool to see so many traditional
houses still there and being lived in. Many of them have been restored in some
way (a new door with a automatic lock, or new windows) but overall they were
just as they were built. The houses are interesting is because not only are
they the traditional architecture, but they were so close to each other. There
is very little space between one house and the next, but that is a very Korean
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food to try! It was very crazy on the main street. There were tons of people,
loud music, and lots of booths! We ate “bangers and mash” (a great UK dish) and
a lamb kabob (not so good ). Then we found an English bookstore called “What
the Book” with lots of new and used English books! We bought the book “The Maze
Runner” since we saw the movie and want to read the rest of the series (ya,
it’s a series, who knew?!). After that we walked around and found this amazing
cookie place! They sell fresh, warm, SOFT homemade cookies! That’s the first
real cookie we’ve had since coming here and they were amazing! We tried white
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dessert, we headed out across town to find the one and only Gangnam
neighborhood! As many of you know, the song Gangnam Style, made famous by Psy,
was based off of the Gangnam neighborhood in Seoul. Gangnam is known to be more
of the “modern/hip/high class” area, and apparently the song is making fun of
that. We ended up dancing to Gangnam Style with out bridal party at our wedding
and think it’s a funny song, so we had to go to Gangnam just to say we’ve been
there! It happened to be on the way to our final stop of the day so we made the
effort to go. Turns out it’s not very exciting. The subway station is actually
very different there. Instead of having just a few various shopping shops down
in the subway this particular subway was packed full of different shops selling
expensive cloths, jewelry, watches, cell phones, shoes, and all sorts of
things. It was also the most confusing of the subway stations because we could
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lotte World</b>-Our
final stop of the day was Lotte World If you haven’t heard, Lotte World is the
worlds largest indoor theme park. But that’s not all! Lotte World has a inside
theme park which includes a giant ice skating rink as well as an outdoor park
called “Magic Island.” This is all attached to the giant super store Lotte
Mart, which is one of those giant department/grocery stores we’ve talked about
before. I think there is a hotel attached as well. It’s honestly big and
overwhelming and it’s impossible to see everything. We got there pretty late,
about 6pm by the time we entered. We were lucky because after 4pm you get a
discount, but we got and even better discount because Tyler used his Korean
Visa card. We have no idea why that gave us a “Special Discount” but it did and
we were thrilled! It only cost $13 each which is awesome compared to the normal
~$40 range. We began by just walking around on the inside and observing
everything. There were lots of little food restaurants/carts as well as gift
shops selling all sorts of souvenirs, but mostly stuffed animals! Spread around
were certain rides, but there weren’t too many of those. Most were children’s
rides. We saw a roller coaster (but we couldn’t figure out where to get on) and
we saw “hot air balloons” that circle around the ceiling above. Mostly it was
just a lot families running around. It was loud, colorful, and crowded, so we
decided to go check out the Magic Island. Walking out to Magic Island is sort
of like walking into Main Street in Disneyland. As you walk, you go towards a
giant castle in the middle. Lots of people broke out their selfie sticks and
took many photos with the castle in the background. It was a pretty view, so of
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familiar ones. The ride that lifts you high in the air and then drops you, the
ship ride that sways back and forth, and one of those <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>high spinning rides that looks terrible!
We found this one roller coaster ride called “Atlantis” that actually looked
really fun! It was fast, had some turns, and went in and out of a
mountain/castle structure. This looked great to us, but to our dismay it was an
80 minute wait with no “Magic pass” (fast pass) available. So we looked around
at other rides and found out they all had about the same wait time. This was
disappointing as it was almost 7pm and we were already tired from the day,
waiting that long would take up most of the night! So we decided to go search
inside again and along the way played a few arcade games. After a while of
trying to decide what to do next, we decided to choose one ride and stick it
out during the long wait. Of course the ride we chose was the “Atlantis” roller
coaster. We found the back of the line, like halfway to the other side of the
island, and waited a whole 80 minutes to get on. The wait wasn’t terrible, and
we were completely entertained by this high school couple who were hilariously
stereotypical. They both were wearing the Lotte World cat ears and showing a
lot of PDA and flirting. It was great. What was even better was having them sit
in front of us during the ride. Too bad we don’t have video of that! ;) When we
finally got on, the ride was totally worth it (for what it was)! It was fast,
had some surprises, and went in and out of the dark. It was kind of a mix of
Indiana Jones and space mountain. Very interesting, but really fun! We were
satisfied with our one ride of the day and decided to take our last look around
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When we went back inside a parade was going on around the
ice rink. It was a light parade so it was dark inside with many parade floats
of all different colors. We watched for a bit, but got bored and decided to try
to exit while the crowds were entertained. That proved to be harder than we
thought! As it was mostly dark inside, we got disoriented and forgot where we
even came in. We were pretty convinced this place was built that way, so they
could keep you in! Once we finally did find the exit, we headed back through
the Lotte Mart where all the restaurants were. We found this AMAZING crepe
shop! We had a giant crepe filled with strawberries, ice cream, and whipped
cream. I’m pretty sure that was my favorite dessert thus far. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Wingdings;">:)</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We headed back to the subway station
(which happens to be attached to Lotte World, of course, and went on our way
back to Itaewon. When we arrived, the festival was still in full force. People
were everywhere, and the streets were a mess, filled with garbage! We made our
way back to the hostel, packed, and went to bed! Overall, Lotte World was an
interesting experience. The best way to sum it up is to say they really tried
hard, but it will never live up to Disneyland. We couldn’t quite figure out a
theme, even our ride Atlantis made no sense as far as a theme goes. It was also
one of the most over stimulating places we’ve ever been! If the ride lines were
shorter we would have liked to try more of them out, but it was just too
crowded. I think we are a little too faithful to our favorite place ever,
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next day (Sunday) we had bus tickets that departed Seoul at 10am, so we needed
to get to the bus station kind of early. Once we got to the bus station we had
breakfast (at Dunkin Donut’s of course!) and had amazing English muffin
breakfast sandwiches! They really were just regular old breakfast sandwiches,
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we slept mostly the entire way. Once we got back to Gwangju we were hungry, but
not starving. So we opted to try the TGIF restaurant, which was located in the
bus terminal. We decided to share a grilled chicken Caesar salad. This turned
out to be a very interesting salad! When they brought it out the plate had
large pieces of lettuce laid on top of each other. Each leaf had the Caesar
dressing spread on it, so it technically was a Caesar salad. The croutons were
huge, basically like balls of baked break. It took a while to cut up the
lettuce because it was so thick and there was no easy way to eat it. We found
this to be a hilarious lunch and laughed the whole way through. It actually
tasted great though, so it was a good choice nonetheless! <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></div>
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After that really fun long weekend we were a little sad to
get back to the real world. But of course, that is life! ;) We had a wonderful
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We have so many more photos of our trip on our Shutterfly Share site! You can view them at this link: https://marriedmansours.shutterfly.com/</div>
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weekend we went on a 3-day vacation to Jeju Island! Jeju is a decent sized
island in the very south part of the country! Many people claim it is the “Hawaii”
of South Korea! It definitely is a very different atmosphere from mainland Korea
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decided we had to get this blog post up now as we leave again today to have
another mini vacation to Seoul! :) </span><span style="color: #10131a; font-size: 14pt;">Our 3 day weekend to Jeju was jam
packed! We saw so many sites and really enjoyed getting out of our town for a
bit! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10131a; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We had
Friday off because of a holiday (Korean National Foundation Day) and was
invited to go on this vacation by some friends we met at orientation! This trip
was planned by an organization called “When in Korea” (a.k.a WINK). This organization
is led by foreigners and native Koreans who live in Korea and love to travel.
They plan trips around Korea for foreigners (although Koreans are welcome as
well!) and take care of the many details that can sometimes be challenging when
you don’t speak the language! This trip included our motel, ferry, busses,
entrance fees, and even a few meals! The cost was low for what all was included
and it was definitely worth it. We would have never experienced Jeju like that
by ourselves (It’s hard just to figure out how to get ferry tickets right now!)
So for our first vacation, this was great!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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started out by taking a taxi to Gwangju at 1:30am on Friday morning. The tour
bus was supposed to pick up the Gwangju people at 3am, so this gave us plenty
of time to get to the bus station, order a KFC snack (yep, healthy), and find
the rest of the group. We met up with our friends, Austin and Nicole and got on
the bus around 3:30am. By that time, we were exhausted and fell right asleep on
the bus. These are the same tour busses we’ve talked about before with the
comfy seats, curtains in the window, bright colored lights, and crazy
decorations. These busses are known for having the “most comfortable seats in
Korea.” Since most Koreans sit on the floor a lot..it makes sense. ;) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Gwangju, we drove south to the county of Wando. Wando is a coastle county with
multiple islands. Some islands are connected by large bridges and some you have
to take boats to. We woke up about 30 minutes before we were at the Ferry
station. It was bright and sunny out and the view was beautiful! Mixing the
green mountains with the beautiful beaches was amazing! We took lots of
pictures from the bus, but we wish we could explore more! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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told about 5 minutes before we arrived that we were late and will need to be
fast unloading. So all 50 of us quickly got off the bus, got our tickets, and
literally ran onto the boat. We were slightly disappointed when we found out
not only were we not on the larger ferry with the Dunkin Donuts, but we were on
the slower ferry with no Dunkin Donuts. ;) Instead of taking 2 hours to get to
Jeju, it was going to take 5! Good thing we were prepared with pre-downloaded
movies on the Kindle Fire and our pillows! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10131a; font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Ferry
ride actually wasn’t too bad. We started out just visiting with our friends and
eating the Costco muffins provided by WINK. We took lots of pictures and then
started a movie. Ferry’s are very different in Korea. In the US, usually seats
are first come first serve, or maybe you get a reserved seat if it’s a nice
ferry. In Korea, there is a class system. First class gets nice comfortable
seats, second class gets regular seats, and third class gets put in one of many
large rooms on the boat and you sit on the floor…yep the floor! Not only do you
sit on the floor, but you must take off your shoes before you sit on the raised
floor with thin carpet. For the first 3 hours of the trip we actually found
metal seats outside, which were first come first serve. This was nice because
it was so beautiful out! For the last two hours we went inside and sat on the
floor because it got a little chilly. It was an interesting experience sitting
with a mix of foreigners and Koreans on this big floor. It’s not uncommon or
rude to lay down and sleep on the floor. Most people on the ferry (in 3<sup>rd</sup>
class) did this for the rest of the trip. We enjoyed a bowl of ramen for a
snack and finished our movie inside. Since the boat was slower, it was not too
rocky, but we were still thankful to get to Jeju in the end! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to Jeju, we unloaded and found our new tour bus. Our first stop was lunch! We
drove to a Korean restaurant with a 7-11 next door. Thankfully we were one of
the first to order because there were only 2 cooks, and 50 hungry people! We
ate mandu (Korean pot stickers) and rice and met another awesome foreigner
named Nicole. Nicole actually works as a teacher in China at an international
school! It was really cool hearing about her experiences there! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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lunch we were given tickets to a very “special” museum that was right next
door. We were told about this museum before but had no intention of going
there. Because our entrance fee was already paid for in our total tour cost, we
decided “what the heck!” When in Korea, right? The museum is called “Loveland.”
It is an out door art sculpture park focused on a theme of sex. Awkward, right?
So after a very quick run through park, we were definitely finished. We got
some ice cream from the 7-11 and got back on the bus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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lunch and Loveland, we were on our way to the Manjangul Caves! The Mananjugal
Cave is a large (and very well preserved) lava tunnel in Jeju. Only 1km of the
13,422m cave is open to the public, but the Koreans worked hard to make this
accessible (and comfortable) for everyone. Inside there are lights on the cave
walls, so there really isn’t much need to bring your own. They’ve placed large
stepping stones in certain parts to cover up pot holes, and there is even a
wooden bridge built inside! It was a little chilly in the caves, but not terrible!
We made our way through the cave and enjoyed attempting to take pictures in the
dark! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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caves we were on our way to check into the motel. The motel was located at
Hamdeok Beach, literally like 50 feet from the beach. It was a decent motel with
lots of options for rooms. We got a private room with a double bed and our own
bathroom, but most people got into groups of 4 and slept on the floor on mats
and shared a bathroom. The room was plain, but it was clean and we even had a
nice view of the ocean! The one interesting cultural thing we experienced were
the pillows. The pillows provided did not have soft cotton or feathers inside,
but instead something crunchy and hard was inside. Later, I researched it and
found it was buckwheat husks inside. These pillows are actually supposed to be
good for sleeping and keep away bed bugs. Not our favorite, but it was a
interesting experience! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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whose skin really is black. It is said that these pigs have a distinctive taste
and supposed to be really special. We barbequed the pig at a communal table and
met some other English teachers. The food was good, but we didn’t exactly
notice any special taste. After dinner, we walked back to the motel and made a
stop at the beach to enjoy it! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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early night for us as we had to be ready for our day long tour to begin at 7:30
the next morning! The next day we got on the bus with everyone and were ready
for our day of exploring! Our first stop was Hyeobje Beach, about an hour away!
Tyler will explain the rest! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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since it was our first stop in the morning, it was still quite windy and cold.
The beach is famous for it’s black volcanic rocks, which were pretty cool. Val
and I walked around and took pictures and played with our new selfie stick.
Although selfie sticks look kind of ridiculous, they actually work pretty well
and are very common in Korea. Also on the beach there were a bunch of little
cairns, (stacked rocks) that people had made. We don’t know why, but it was
cool to see so many of them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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little deceiving because unfortunately the cliff walk was closed due to the big
waves from the pending Typhoon. What we actually did at this location is go
onto a model of a Dutch ship that had once washed ashore. After that we hiked
up to an old signal post, which is like a stone watchtower for invading ships
where a person would light a fire to warn everyone of anything suspicious. Then
we headed further up to Sanbangsan Temple. The Buddhist temple was interesting
to see. Inside the buildings everything was so colorful and then there were a
lot of little statues everywhere. There was also a lot of food displayed before
the statues as an offering. Outside was also a huge golden statue of Buda. From
the temple we hiked up to a cave in the side of the mountain. In the cave there
were people burning incense and people praying. We got to drink from a pool of
blessed water, where the water was dripping through the rock above. On the way
back to the tour bus, we stopped at one of the many booths to buy some famous
Jeju chocolates and fresh </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">squeezed </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jeju unshiu orange</span><span style="color: #10131a; font-size: 14pt;">
juice. The chocolates we bought to share at our schools. After sampling the
chocolates, we bought the unshiu orange flavor and the cactus flavor, which was
my favorite. The chocolates were good, but Val and I prefer just regular
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busy morning, we were taken to a Korean Buffet restaurant for lunch! We were
looking forward to this because we were starving! When we walked in, the buffet
was huge! There were many long tables spread out with giant warm serving
platters filled with a variety of foods. There were many choices for lunch.
Surprisingly enough there wasn’t too many dishes that we hadn’t seen or tried
before (thanks to school lunch and being fed at orientation!). So it was good
to know what we liked and what we didn’t like. There were still many things we
stayed away from, but we found a plateful of food and sat down. We also ended
up trying Pineapple Fanta (soda pop) to try….it’s not as good as we thought. ;)
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different waterfalls. The first waterfall was pretty small, but flowed into a
beautiful pool of water and was backed by a really cool rock wall. Despite the
sign that reads, “No swimming,” and “When swimming you can be died with heart
attack,” some people from our tour still decided it was worth the risk and went
for a quick swim. I am pleased to report that none of them died with heart
attack. Although, the Koreans that saw all the foreigners swimming in the
deadly pool of water sure thought we were crazy. The second waterfall was our
favorite! It was a good size waterfall with stunning surroundings! The third
waterfall was also a good size, but the viewpoint just wasn’t as good. The
whole area was absolutely beautiful in a valley of such green lush trees
everywhere and you could even see the ocean in the distance. We also walked
over this huge bridge, which had a great view spanning over the valley. On a
side note, I’d also like to mention that they also had camping available near
the trails to the waterfalls. This camping consisted of renting a tent that is
already set up on a raised wooden platform. It also had very nice bathrooms and
showers just a short walk away. Koreans love camping, although their camping
experience seems quite different than ours.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waterfall 2... our favorite! Do you see the rainbow? :)</td></tr>
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beach, it was nice and hot outside and the sun was shining! This beach is known
for its water sports like surfing because it has bigger waves than the rest of
the island. We enjoyed relaxing on the beach watching the waves break and knock
people over who were wading in the surf. Every now and then an alarm would go
off, which we think may be warning people of any extra big waves. The waves
were also bigger than normal because of the incoming typhoon. This was a great
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famous stone pillars at the ocean’s edge. The pillars are admired for their
naturally formed hexagonal shape. The unofficial name for the rocks is Superman
Rocks because they resemble crystals in the Fortress of Solitude. There is also
a spot where the waves would crash and spout water high into the air, which was
pretty cool. You would know a big wave is coming when all the Koreans got
excited. This was a short stop, but we got some good pictures and savored the
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stop of the day was to go to this spot where a natural sea pool was made. There
are cliffs next to it, which leads many adventurous and brave people to climb
the cliffs and dive into the pool…After seeing the pictures you may (or may
not) agree that this looks a little dangerous and with the Typhoon coming, the
waves were very strong. Still, a few of our group members participated and had
a great time. It was about 5pm at that time, sun was starting to set, and the
wind was picking up. It started to get more dangerous as the waves were pushing
the people into the cliff. So we decided it was time to go! We made our way
back up the stairs we came down and went to a different view point to watch the
sunset! It was really beautiful! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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late dinner (8:30pm!) that night we all went to Jeju city to an Indian restaurant.
Tyler and I sat with Nicole and Austin and enjoyed Lamb curry and Tandoori
chicken! After that we walked around Jeju for a bit and looked in some of the
shops. However, we were so exhausted from the day that we caught a cab back to
the motel after not too long. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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we were told that the Typhoon was coming to Jeju soon. We thought that was
interesting and everything, but it was still beautiful and sunny outside so we
didn’t think too much of it. It turns out that it was coming the next day and
was going to be bad enough that the ferry drivers would not leave Jeju past 8am
in the morning. People who had cell phones with data plans even got text
messages warning them about the Typhoon. Our original schedule said we would
leave Jeju at noon on Sunday, but instead we now had to leave Jeju at 8am. That
meant we all got on the bus at 7am and drive to the ferry station. Once there,
we saw how many other Koreans needed to get off the island as well. It was
packed with people wanting to get a ferry ticket. We waited a while, finally
got our ticket, and got on our new ferry. The good news was that this was a
bigger and faster ferry (2.5 hours!) but unfortunately because of the speed and
the typhoon waters, it was a very rocky ride! Our WINK group got a private room
on the boat and we all claimed our spaces on the floor. Most people slept the
entire boat ride. On a bathroom trip I (Val) saw just how bad the Koreans were
handling the rocky boat. It was kind of like a scene from a horror movie.
People were spread out all over the boat looking terribly sick, running to the
bathroom, and “tossing their cookies” in any trash can they could find. This
was not what I wanted to see as I wasn’t feeling so great myself, so I went
back to our room, took some Dramamine, and went to sleep! We finally made it to
Wando again and made our journey back to Gwangju! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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it was truly an amazing weekend in Jeju! It was our first vacation together
that we paid for completely by ourselves and we felt we did everything we
wanted to in that short time! Here is the link to our shutterfly share site
that allows you to see all the photos of our trip! :D<a href="" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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we go again, this time to Seoul for a 4 day, 3 night adventure! We’re not quite
sure what we’re going to do yet (spontaneity is best right?) but we’re excited
to finally be able to visit this giant city! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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So many updates to share! We realize it has been longer than
usual since our last post. It has been a very busy last few weeks! After the 5-day
holiday weekend, we hit the ground running with getting back into our school
schedule. It’s been nice getting into the routine at work! We’re both getting
more comfortable with lesson planning and teaching. Every once in a while we
still have moments of “Wow, we’re married, living in Korea, and teaching
English!” We’re really living our dream and God has truly blessed us throughout
it all. So far we have had a fairly easy transition into our lives here. No
major sickness, no huge challenges in communication, and we are even able to
find the things we need to live comfortably. We’re staying positive and happy!
Of course there are times of frustration, miscommunication, or moments where
you just wish you could find your favorite ranch dressing from home, but these
times come and go and we are so grateful for our lives here! It’s been exciting
starting out our newlywed life with real jobs! We received our first paychecks
the other day and are so happy to be paying for things for ourselves! Yes,
we’re real adults now! <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Wingdings;">:)</span></div>
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Tyler and I also began teaching Saturday English class at
Tyler’s travel school! This class is for middle schools (grades 1,2 and 3-mixed
levels) and is 3 hours every other Saturday. The reason these students have
Saturday school is because many other Korean middle school and high school
students have access to private academies (Hagwans) to attend outside of school
hours. Because this school is so rural, these students do not have
opportunities to attend these schools so our class is another opportunity for
them to practice English in a location near them. We’re pretty sure it is free to
attend for them as well, so that is good for the students. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We decided to teach the class together
(even though it’s actually Tyler’s class and Tyler is the one being paid)
because it would be much for fun than just making him do the class alone! 2 is
better than 1! The class is great! We have about 7 middle school girls who are
really sweet! During the end of the first class, we had a 10-minute break. The
girls came back with 2 giant bowls of instant noodles all cooked for us! We
have no idea where they got it, but they all had some for themselves too. So
because of that, we decided to let them watch the beginning of a movie while we
all enjoyed our noodles! ;) </div>
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This week was really fun! After learning about prepositions
(in, on, over, under…) and doing a few activities to practice them (including a
fun scavenger hunt leading them to candy, created by Tyler!), I taught the
girls how to cook my favorite breakfast food, French toast! The school was
really kind and bought the supplies for us! We brought our cooking materials
from home (frying pan, spatula, measuring cups and spoons) as well! The girls
were really excited to cook as they had asked to learn how to do that when we
talked to them during the first class! We cooked the French toast in the school’s
cafeteria, which had many gas stoves in it (and ovens, good for future baking
projects!). After each group cooked 1 slice for themselves, we let them cook
more if they wanted. To our surprise, they all wanted to cook more, which was
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Last Friday I went on an all school field trip with my home
school. I was really excited about this because Fridays are really long
teaching days for me and instead of teaching, I got to go explore some more of
Korea with my school. I had no idea what to expect, as I was not told where we
were going. The whole school <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(grades Kindi-5<sup>th</sup>, 6<sup>th</sup> was on their own
overnight fieldtrip) loaded the busses at 9am. Since there are not real “school
busses” here like in the US, we traveled on “tour busses” instead. The only
difference was that kindergarten traveled on their special Kindergarten bus,
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There are many of these Kindergarten busses around our town as it’s very common
for the Kindergarten to pick the children up and drop them off from school. My
co-teacher and I sat on the bus with the 1<sup>st</sup> graders and 5<sup>th</sup>
graders. About half way there I found out we were going to the city of Damyang.
This is the same city we went to during our orientation for the field trip to
the Bamboo Forest! So I assumed we were going there, but I was wrong! We kept
driving to a more rural and very beautiful farm area. When we arrived everyone
was ushered to a giant green house that had tables and stools for everyone. A
speech was given and students were split up into groups with guides from the
farm. At that point all the teachers went to a newly built “Pension” to have a
snack. A pension here is like a bed and breakfast. They are smaller but usually
pretty nice. We enjoyed a snack of fruit, tea, and gimbap (Korean sushi). It
was nice getting to spend time with the teachers (though there wasn’t much
talking from me) but I noticed that we were up there for a long time. I asked
my co-teacher if the teachers ever lead the students in the field trip.
Apparently just the guides from the farm take care of the students and the
teachers spend time together. This is very opposite from what field trips are
like in the US! After snacking we took a walk to a reservoir on the property.
The walk was beautiful and my co-teacher and I had some time to talk! When we
got back from the walk we went straight back to the room with the snacks. This
time instead of talking in a whole group, everyone was kinda in pairs. This
left more time for my co-teacher and I to bond and talk more. At lunchtime the
students ate outside around the property. Teachers were ushered downstairs to a
room with some tables and food set our on the table. An older woman had
prepared this wonderful meal for the teachers and was setting it up for us. We
ate boiled chicken with side dishes of various vegetables and of course, kimchi.
This kimchi was 3 years old! I even tried a bite of it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one point all of the guides who were
leading the students came in for lunch. I was concerned as now there were no
adults outside with the students, but apparently that all worked out. After
lunch the teachers went outside to see the students. We stood on the porch and
watched the students run around. It was great to see such freedom and happiness
in the students. They were all having a great time playing with each other and
running free. Then, something amazing and hilarious happened. The main leader
of the farm got on the speaker system and started speaking to the students.
They all got excited as he spoke and gathered in front of the porch the
teachers were standing on. Then some K-Pop music began. It was actually a song
I knew so I thought that was interesting and the students seemed to like this
song. Then, out of nowhere the students just broke out into dance! Like
choreographed dance! I was shocked and started filming with my iphone! Song
after song played and the students surprised me each time with knowing
choreography to these K-pop songs…Gangnam style included! It actually made me
really happy to see this student body dance together! I was shocked because not
only did they know all these dances and were really good at them, they actually
performed and were not shy about it! It was great! Here is a video with some
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Originally this post was going to be dedicated to the
similarities and differences between US schools and S.Korean schools…but we had
to update about some other fun school things too. So here it is, the beginning
of our compare and contrast list! This time, it’s all about Elementary schools.
But middle school and high school will definitely be talked about in the
future! <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span>
Here’s my little disclaimer…these similarities and differences are based on my
experiences in the school systems at home and here only. This is not a
generalization of all schools everywhere!</div>
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1<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. Kids are kids!:</b>
Before coming to Korea we heard many opinions and myths on what students in
Korea will be like. Some said they are all angels, hard workers, and will
absolutely love you! Some said they are wild, lazy, or rude. Most people said
Korean students were respectful. We tried hard not to have any pre-conceived
opinions about our students because we know the opinions and stereotypes only
go so far! My point? Kids will be kids. Each child is unique and each community
is different. Therefore, I can say in my specific location most of my kids are
really respectful and hard working and I can only speak for myself. I have some
kids who are low, some who are high. There are some students who are wild and
some who are super shy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It all
depends! <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span> </div>
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2<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. The teachers work
hard:</b> Compared to the schools I worked at in the US, Korean teachers and US
teachers are similar. They all work hard! These teachers are also very
passionate about their job and love their students. With such small classes,
they really get to know their students and develop great relationships with
them. This is awesome to see!</div>
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3. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">There is
curriculum and we stick to it: </b>Though this varies from school to school, in
my school there is an English curriculum that the school wants us to follow.
This curriculum has a teacher guidebook (mostly in Korean, with some English)
and each student has a textbook. There is a DVD that comes with it that
actually projects an interactive textbook on the screen. This way students can
get directions for activities (in Korean by the DVD and in English from me), can
watch videos related to their book (in English), and teachers can correct
answers from the DVD to show the class. There are text books for each grade
level (3<sup>rd</sup>-6<sup>th</sup>) and each student brings theirs to class
each day. These textbooks, just like any curriculum was difficult to learn for
me at first for a few reasons: 1. There are different versions of the
text-books for 3rd/4<sup>th</sup> and 5<sup>th</sup>/6<sup>th</sup>, as well as
a completely different brand of texbook for one of my travel schools for my 3<sup>rd</sup>/4<sup>th
</sup>grades. 2. There are specific routines set up that my co-teacher had set
up that I needed to learn because students are most used to it and it works
best for them. For example, using specific language when asking questions. 3.
In each version, there are a set of “characters” that are in each chapter. In 3<sup>rd</sup>
and 4<sup>th</sup> grade one of the characters (of Asian decent) is named “Jinsu,”
but in the 5<sup>th</sup>/6<sup>th</sup> grade books the almost exact same
character’s name is “Jino” same with a blond haired kid named “Andy” in the 3<sup>rd</sup>/4<sup>th</sup>
grade book, but his name is “Chris” in the 5<sup>th</sup>/6<sup>th</sup> grade
book. This doesn’t sound like a big problem…except the amount of times I’ve
messed up characters names is ridiculous! ;) Otherwise, I actually like the
curriculum as far as being a new English teacher here. It provides structure
and consistency to my elementary kids and gives me the teacher a sense of flow.
Some teachers don’t like using textbooks and feel restricted in their
creativity, however I feel I can be creative with the activities I choose to
have students participate in and how I approach using the curriculum everyday.
I’m learning a lot about language acquisition and how to teach English and I
feel this curriculum is helping!</div>
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technology is great!:</b> In my classroom I have a giant touch TV Screen. This
is great because the text-book comes with a curriculum CD that we use
frequently. The touch screen is fun to use as well. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span> What’s funny is even our most
rural schools have this kind of technology which is nice! I have also seen
decent computer labs being used as well. </div>
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Lunches</b>: Everyone eats cafeteria lunch everyday, including the staff
members! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Teachers actually eat
with their class at the tables and other staff members sit in the cafeteria
either with students or with other teachers. Also, students wait to begin
eating until all of their classmates are sitting down with their food.
Sometimes they say a word of thanks (not anything religious, just some sort of
thank you). It has been really convenient for Tyler and I to not have to worry
about preparing our lunch during the work week! We do pay for our lunches
(money is deducted from our paychecks) but it is very cheap and the food we eat
is good quality (they generally get their food from local farmers) and
everything is fresh and homemade. </div>
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Interaction:</b> In the US it is very important for the teacher to have good
parent communication. I personally believe a positive parent-teacher
relationship can really benefit a child in your classroom. In Korea, parent
communication is rare for English teachers. As a Native English Teacher, I do
not get very much parent interaction. As far as I know the English teacher (my-coteacher)
does not interact with parents often either. There is one exception. I attended
an Open House at my main school this past week. We only have about 130 kids
about my school, but I would say maybe 30 parents attended this open house. I
did leave early, so there may have been more, but those parents were there to
see their child’s homeroom teacher, not English/Music/PE teacher. I wish I had
the language skills to be able to communicate with my student’s parents but
that is definitely a difference I am getting used to here in Korea! I’m still
learning what kind of relationships the schools have with their student’s
parents and will continue to write about it in the future! </div>
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Clean the school:</b> This Is something I completely agree with yet is so
different than in the US. Students here are responsible for keeping the inside
of the school clean. There are no “Janitors” here. Students sweep, mop, and
dust their classrooms, hallways, and the bathrooms here. It’s great to see and
you can tell that they respect their school because you do not see graffiti,
trash, or other messes around because they know they will be the ones to clean
it up! The school is also maintained, (painted, repaired, landscaped), by other
adult workers, but it is great to see some major responsibility being placed on
the students here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This was perhaps the most shocking difference between elementary schools at
home and here. The students have extreme freedom when it comes to their time.
Students arrive early and stay late at school, they have an hour lunch break,
and 10 minutes in between classes, as well as a 30 minute recess during the
day. With all of this free time, you would expect an adult to be supervising
the students. Nope. Students have run of the school, and literally…they run!
During these times students are loud, running through the halls and playing. No
adults supervise, and actually these times are breaks for teachers as well!
Students are able to self manage themselves and the adults trust them enough to
let them do that. It’s pretty amazing, as this would never happen in the US,
but it’s interesting to see it work so well here!</div>
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2<sup>nd</sup>: 15</div>
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3<sup>rd</sup>: 8</div>
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It’s really nice getting to experience such small classes
here. I definitely notice how much more students get out of a class where they
get more attention. Not only that, we get through the material faster and have
more time for “activities.” Which is always nice! On Tuesdays at Dogok Jungang
I have a different co-teacher than the rest of the week. This co-teacher allows
me to teach almost completely solo. She is there for support when needed (like
some translation) but with such a small amount of students I am able to teach
them without too much translation needed. My other co-teacher (for Monday,Wed-Fri)
and I have developed a great co-teaching relationship that allows both of us to
teach during class. Right now it’s about 50/50, and I think the students
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The way classes are handled here are very different than the US. In the classes
I taught, students are encouraged to raise their hands, speak quietly, and
listen to the person who is talking. I remember working with my students in the
US on this a lot!! In English class in Korea, this is different. Students
practice their English by talking in unison frequently (For example, I would
say “Class, how’s the weather? And the entire class would respond “It’s
sunny.”). But students here do not just talk, they yell! It’s not discouraged
however because we would rather have them enthusiastically yelling in English
than not speaking English at all. So when they all are in unison, they are
loud! Also, it is common that not all students are listening to their peers at
all times. This drives me crazy, as I worked hard in the classes I taught to
really have students gain a respect for each other by listening to each other
speak. This is typical Korean culture (and possibly part classroom management)
but I try my best to do what I can with that. Obviously, the smaller classes
rarely do that, so that’s nice! When students misbehave (consistent talking,
rude comments, distractions) my co-teacher asks the student to go to the back
of the room and stand up. The goal of that is that the student is away from the
other classmates and is learning to “be still and quiet.” If the entire class
is being rowdy and rude my co-teacher gives them a lecture (in Korean) and has
the entire class be silent and close their eyes to practice being still and
quiet. Sometimes she will keep them during their 10 minute break as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This doesn’t happen often, usually the
students are not out of control, but if they are, it’s usually our 5<sup>th</sup>
graders…haha.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We also decided since we have SO many photos to share, we started a Shutterfly Share site! We will be uploading all of our photos there to allow us to keep them safe (just in case!) and for anyone who is curious to view them! We've only uploaded the first batch tonight (it takes a while!) so there will be many more to come! Hopefully in the future they will be much more organized and in smaller albums! Enjoy them at: https://marriedmansours.shutterfly.com/</span></div>
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We hope everyone is doing well! We miss our family and friends
terribly, and are thankful for Skype, Facebook, and Kakao talk to keep in
touch! </div>
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Our next post will be about......Jeju Island! We're off on a new this weekend to explore the "Hawaii" of Korea! Thanks for reading our ridiculous long blog! </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wow,</i></b> so much to write about! Lot’s has happened as we have
begun school, had a 5 day holiday, and continue to settle into our lives here
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It’s now been 1 month since we began this adventure! <span style="color: #10131b; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">A
month ago we had no idea of the kind people we would meet, challenges we would
go through, craziness we would endure, or joy that Korea would bring us. It's
only been a month, homesickness has definitely set in at times and we are not
quite "settled" into our new environment yet , but we really are
enjoying our married life in our new home! We truly appreciate the prayers as
we continue this adventure here!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">New English Teacher
Dinner:</b> We were invited last Thursday to go to Korean BBQ with all the new
and current teachers in Hwasun. Besides meeting Brad and Maranda, who live a
few floors up from us, we had not met any other foreigners. Brad, Maranda, and
I have been communicating through email for a few months as I was taking over
Brad’s job and they were giving us great information before we got here. We all
met and walked to the restaurant. It was in the basement of a building (we
would have never found this place alone!) and again, was a traditional sit on
the floor place. It was cool because the grill was in the middle of each of the
table and a vent hung down over it. The food was great and it was really nice
getting to talk to the other teachers! Some teacher have been here for 4 years,
others are brand new! We had a lot of fun and are glad to know there are lots
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I were referred to this awesome website called iHerb as we were in need of some
western groceries that we just couldn’t find here! This website is amazing! It
is based out of California and ships 15lbs of groceries to Korea for only $4 in
shipping! So that’s been fun! The other day our 1<sup>st</sup> box came filled
with lots of goodies! Annies snack mix, real spaghetti sauce, salsa, and
Tyler’s favorite cinnamon pita chips! This was an exciting day! We are still
waiting on box #2 as it has my Bob’s red mill oatmeal, our garlic powder, and
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Walking home the other day I noticed a new glasses store opened up and had huge
sale signs and balloons everywhere. I’ve heard you can get prescription glasses
here for pretty cheap and I wanted a new pair so Tyler and I decided to explore
that on a Friday evening (after pizza dinner of course!). We were there just to
look but we ended up both getting an quick eye exam to see what our
prescriptions would be. We also both ended up finding pairs that worked (and
happened to match each others, of course!) so we went for it! Along with our
two pairs of glasses (for a total of $40!) they gave us 3 boxes of tissue, 30
eggs, and 1 antibacterial serving tray. Random right? In Korea, it is common to
give out gifts during big sales, opening of new stores, or just as promotions.
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<b>Bus Rides: </b>We’ve said before the bus rides are a little rough here. In the mornings (and sometimes evenings) they are very crowded, but that’s just part of it. It’s bumpy with lots of turns, and you go really fast. Tyler travels 45 minutes to his schools and I travel anywhere from 25-45 to certain schools as well. Put all that together and it’s a great mixture for motion sickness. This frequently happens to both of us. We haven’t figured out how to stop it yet and it’s not terrible (there have been no embarrassing situations!) but that’s definitely something different about living here!</div>
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On Saturday night we went to Gwangju for another fun trip to E-mart! This time,
we decided to explore the U-Square and Shinsegae area first. U-Square is the
giant bus terminal in Gwangju. It’s a great landmark because everyone knows
where it is and it has a lot in it! Lot’s of shops, restaurants, and even a
movie theater. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s also conveniently
located next to E-mart, another great landmark! The Shinsegae shopping area is
like a big mall with many floors of shopping. In the basement we found a food
court with many different cuisines. On the other floors were name brand and non
name brand cloths and what not. We explored a bit and then went down to E-mart.
We ended up eating at the Popeyes in the E-mart food court. We are in somewhat
of a “comparing and contrasting” stage in Korea. Which means we basically have
to buy or try every type of food that is in the US and compare it to the Korean
version. It also means we have to buy every type of Korean food just to try it
out! It’s a mix of being adventurous and sticking with what we know. ;) After
dinner we did our shopping and went to U Square (the bus station with lots of
shops inside) and ended up eating Baskin Robins (see what I mean?). Our ice
cream was good, but we were not very adventurous (Tyler had mint chocolate chip
and I had cotton candy because sadly, there is no pink bubblegum here).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then found the giant cinema that is
on the top floor! It is really big and looks really nice! They periodically
play English movies there (with Korean subtitles), so when Maze Runner comes
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On Sunday, our new friends Brad and Maranda invited us to attend their church
in Gwangju. We took a bus and a taxi to get there. The church is located near
the World Cup Stadium in Gwangju. It is called Wolgwang English Ministry. They
use a Korean Christian church building and the English service is held on the 4<sup>th</sup>
floor in a nice multipurpose room. The pastor is cool because he is a Korean,
but he was born in Germany, so his main language is German, Korean and English.
When he speaks English, he speaks with a German accent! It’s great! The people were
very nice and welcoming! It was a mixture of foreigners and English speaking
Koreans. The service and worship was all in English and the songs were very
familiar (Hillsong United, Matt Redman…) . It was great to meet some other
English teachers as well! The church was so kind, and gave us hand towels as
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After church Maranda and Brad took us downtown to eat lunch
at their favorite restaurant. It’s a western restaurant that has as authentic
western food as you can prolly get in Korea. It was great! We all had breakfast
sandwiches (with real cheese!) and enjoyed lunch together! After, they showed
us some little fun stores around the area and showed us how the busses run
around the area. We are so hapy we found such kind, generous, and Christian
friends to connect with here in Gwangju!<br />
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night some friends posted a recipe to make homemade flour tortillas. We haven’t
found tortillas here yet, but we had meat and taco seasoning so we thought we
could give that a try! They were super simple to make, only 4 ingredients, and
they tasted pretty good! It was nice to have our traditional “taco night”
again! Other meals we have made include chicken nuggets and rice, spicy noodle
and pork soup, mandu (pot stickers), macaroni and cheese and hotdogs, and spaghetti!
We have also made French toast and pancakes too (thank gosh they have decent
syrup here!). We are still learning what and how to cook in our tiny kitchen
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chuseok: </b>Chuseok (Chew-Sock) is a three-day holiday similar to American Thanksgiving and Memorial Day all at
once. During the holiday family members travel to be together. It is customary
to go to the grandparents’ home, but it isn’t always the case. While together,
families play games, make food together, and most importantly eat lots of food
together! Rice cakes are a popular sweet to make and eat during this time.
Several days leading up to Chuseok my school had rice cake available in the
teacher’s office. There are different kinds, but the one I tried has red beans
on the bottom and peas in the middle. It was very nice that they shared some
with me, but it didn’t have much flavor and made me very thirsty. The other
important part of the holiday is visiting ancestors’ graves to pay respect. On
the second evening of Chuseok Val and I were enjoying birthday cake with our
upstairs neighbors Brad and Miranda. While hanging out the city of Hwasun put
on a firework show. We walked outside, but by the time they were in view the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hiking Mudeungsan
Mountain: </b>On the final day of the holiday break Val and I went hiking!
After riding the bus to Gwangju and taking a taxi to the start of the trail, we
were ready to go. Hiking is very popular in Korea and one very unique part of
hiking in Korea is that everyone dresses in special hiking clothes. Whether
going out for a walk or a several mile hike, people wear their special hiking
clothes, hiking boots, and their nice daypacks with hiking poles. The clothes
are very bright and colorful, and here we are with our shorts and t-shirts…like
we didn’t stick out enough. The hike was pretty much all up hill on the way to
our destination. We stopped by a small temple with colorful statues. The hiking
paths are well maintained and sometimes had woven carpet laid out. However most
of it was uphill climbing up rocks or man made rock stairs. Along the way we
had lunch. Val and I sat on a bench, but many Koreans sit on a big communal
platform. Many people were interested in us and watched us eat during lunch.
This wasn’t to be rude, they were just curious. The hike was definitely a good
leg workout! Once we finally arrived, we had a beautiful view of the
surrounding mountains and the city of Gwangju in the distance. At the top, some
friendly people took our photo! We also were asked to be in a photo with some
other people! After we finished our hike we went to the shoe cleaning
station…that’s right, they have a shoe cleaning station! There is a small pool
of water and scrub brushes available for public use to clean off our boots. It
was the first time I came back from a hike with cleaner boots than I started
with. While at the cleaning station we met a nice man who is called the “tiger
of the mountain.” They call him the tiger of the mountain because he goes
hiking on Mudeungsan Mountain every day. He spoke pretty good English and told
us how he likes the Portland Trail Blazers. After hiking we walked through the
shopping area, which is 90% hiking stores with every piece of hiking gear you
would ever need. We found the coolest little coffee shop that had some great
looking (and tasting) desserts! The weather was perfect for our day outside and
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Iyang Middle and High
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I teach at three schools, but two
of them are in the same building. The high school is on the third floor, the
middle school on the second, and administration is located on the bottom floor.
The school is tucked up into a hillside, so it has a beautiful view. I have a
desk located in the teacher’s office area, and there are two English labs that
I teach in. One is smaller for the middle school students and the other is much
bigger to accommodate the larger class sizes of high school. My class sizes for
middle school range from 6-9 students. I really enjoy teaching the middle
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<b> </b>This is the other middle school I teach at on Tuesdays. I take a different bus that takes about 45-50 minutes to get to school. The bus ride is very beautiful because most of the drive you see the rural farming areas surrounded by the mountains. There is one mountain that I really like that makes a half dome. In some parts you get to watch the fog roll up the mountainside. The school is much smaller, but the school is very well kept and clean. The staff here is also very friendly and the kids try really hard in my class.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
a walk up and down the halls of both schools, everyone always says hello to me and waves or
bows. The bathrooms all have flushing toilets, but the toilet paper situation
is interesting. They don’t keep the toilet paper rolls in the bathroom stalls;
instead teachers keep toilet paper rolls at their desk. When teachers or
students need to use any toilet paper, they roll some around their hand to take
to the bathroom. Along with interesting use of toilet paper, there is no hand
soap, and they do not use anything to dry their hands. There is an air dryer,
but it feels like someone is breathing on your hands. The cafeteria is in a
separate building right next to the school. Lunches so far have been pretty
good. All meals include rice, soup, kimchi, vegetables, and then usually some
sort of meat and another special item. I usually eat the meat, rice, the
special item, some vegetables, and try the soup. They give decent sized
portions, so I have yet to leave lunch feeling hungry. School lunches are much
more healthy in Korea than in the U.S. and they seem to be pretty fresh. Some
of the other teachers like to practice their English with me, so at lunch or in
the office they will ask me about my weekend, or about where I come from. Oh
and another big bonus about teaching in Korea is that once I get to school I
get to wear slip on shoes rather than my dress shoes that I wear to go to
school.</div>
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Teaching high school has been a
little different than I anticipated. The students are all very friendly, but
lack motivation to learn English. Class sizes for high school range from about
24-31 students. When we are in the classroom, I’m lucky if ¾ of the students
stay awake. Then while some students are sleeping, about ½ the class is talking
or doing something other than listening to me. Finally, the ¼ that is awake and
not goofing off, actually listen and try to participate. As a teacher back home
in the U.S., this is very frustrating. The students don’t necessary mean to be
disrespectful, but to many students English class is seen as a break. Students
are constantly studying and going to classes all day. After school students
usually have some sort of after school program or go to places called Hagwons. A
Hagwon is not a school of witchcraft and wizardry like Hogwarts, but it is a
private school that students go to for more classes and studying. Other students
that do not go to Hagwons may spend their evening working at the family
business. Needless to say students have little time of their own and are very
tired. Since my English class doesn’t actually count towards their grade (and
students know this), it is viewed more as a free period. I keep telling myself
not to take it personally, but it can really be disheartening at times.
Students do have other English classes focused on reading and writing, which
does count for a grade, so they are usually much better at reading and writing
than actually speaking English.</div>
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If you came across our blog and are
reading because you are interested in teaching in Korea, please understand that
each school is different. In general, from what I’ve heard, city schools tend
to be the more high achieving school, so students have a lot more motivation to
learn how to speak English and will participate. More rural school tend to have
students who will most likely not need English in their lives after school, and
therefore it is not as big of a priority. Regardless of where you may end up,
there will always be challenges, but it is how you approach them that will make
a difference!</div>
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Last Saturday Val and I were going
to visit a nearby Temple. We went to the bus terminal to catch the number 218
bus. On the way, we found a store with some cute puppies in the window!
Naturally, we went in and played with the puppies for a while until the store
owner’s yellow lab got playful and violated our personal space. Anyways, we got
to the bus terminal and waited for a while until the 218 bus pulled up. We got
on and asked the bus driver if this bus goes to the temple, but he said no. We
then got off the bus, but did not know what to do. (One weird thing about buses
in Korea is that there can be more than one bus of the same number, but the
buses run different routes.) We didn’t want to just wait around because we
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So since going to the temple was a
bust for this weekend, we decided to explore our city of Hwasun. What better
way to explore than to pick a direction and walk!? And that is exactly what we
did! I pointed at one of the mountains and said lets walk towards that one! It
was fun just walking through neighborhoods, past schools, and by the many shops
around town. Then as we got closer to the mountain, we came across some a water
dam with a lake at the top and a park down below. The lake had a walking path
all the way around, and in the lake was some fake swan figures, with a big cage
in the center.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Creepy fake swans and giant cage in the middle of the lake....</td></tr>
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Along our walk we passed many outdoor exercise areas. We stopped
at one along the way and “exercised” for a little bit. After exploring the lake
area, we decided to head back in the direction of our giant apartment buildings,
which actually looked pretty small from how far we had ventured. By the time we
got back, it was time to make dinner. Our little adventure was a lot of fun,
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<i>What a week!</i> We have successfully made it through 5 days of
school life in Korea…well mostly. Tyler has taught classes every day this week and has done a great job! I’ve been at school everyday…just without kids. I’ll explain later. Here are
some things we haven’t hit on too much that we wanted to update about! </div>
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We really love our city Hwasun in the county of Hwasun! In
the short amount of time we’ve been here we’ve really enjoyed having access to
“city” life while also having immediate access to “rural” life. It’s the best
of both worlds! As we’ve mentioned before, we’re surrounded by giant green
mountains, a beautiful view from almost wherever you walk here! The “downtown”
area has many tall apartment buildings that are all over. Each complex looks
almost exactly the same, but thankfully they each have their name and building
number on it. </div>
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Here are a few stats (found from Wikipedia because we can’t
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The county of Hwasun is about 304 square miles. </div>
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There is a population of about 79,000. </div>
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The county bird is a dove and the county flower is the Wild
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In Hwasun City there are multiple grocery stores near us as
well as both Korean and American restaurant choices. We are really excited to
start exploring more, but in the past few days we’ve been very busy setting up
and organizing our apartment and going to school. We realized though that the
faster we make it feel like home, the faster we can settle in. So far it’s
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This weekend we are ready to travel around the area and learn more about
Hwasun! </div>
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are so thankful for the size of our apartment! It really fits everything
nicely! We have bought some photo frames (of course!) and love the few that are
hanging up right now. Unfortunately we didn’t bring photos that fit that size
of frames we have so now the hunt is on to find a place to print photos. We
found one place in our city, but for 1 8X10 photo it cost $6!!! We need at
least 5 more of that size…so we’re not doing that here. We’ve transitioned
pretty well with cooking in a tiny kitchen (that doesn’t have a oven),
showering in a bathroom without a bathtub, and drying cloths with out a dryer.
We try to have an open mind and positive attitude on our new ways of life,
because, well, why not? This is an adventure for us and we knew going into this
that things would be different! It’s a great lesson in flexibility! We will be making a apartment tour video soon! :)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view from our apartment during the sunset. We propped our front door open so we could see it!<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />The bus system:</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Public
Transportation was the one thing that really made us nervous coming to Korea.
We didn’t even understand how to take public transportation in downtown
Portland, so we had no idea how we were going to figure it out in another
country that doesn’t even speak our language.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To our relief, things have gone pretty smoothly. The NET
that I have taken over for left me a detailed “Survival guide” telling me where
to get on and off the bus to my schools. Even with being shown my schools/ bus
stops and given this wonderful guide, I still had to actually get on and off
that bus! So far so good though! Tyler had it much worse as he was only left
with some written Korean words to show the bus driver.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yet somehow in the midst of all the
nervousness about transportation we have successfully gotten to our schools and
home with little trouble! The bus ride to school is very interesting! The first
10ish minutes we are completely squished between mobs of middle school students
on their way to school. It’s very uncomfortable as it’s hard to balance while
your super squished and the bus is making many sharp turns and stops. Thankfully
that’s just a short part of the ride! We also are still trying to figure out
exactly how much it costs to ride to different places. So far the prices have
been pretty reasonable. We are thankful for such a great transportation system
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Neungju Elementary School:</b> Even though I do not have students this
week, I still have to go to my school each day. It goes with the term “Desk
warming” and though I don’t understand it, I’m going with it! While I’m here,
for 8 hours a day, I have been looking through the textbooks, looking around my
classroom, and creating my introduction powerpoint. Clearly this does not take
up my full 8 hours each day, so I spend my time in less productive ways.
Needless to say I can’t WAIT until next week when I finally get to teach again!
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A turf soccer field! Most schools only have dirt fields. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view from my "office" on a rainy day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The extra space with extra small private learning rooms. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Supply closet!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the extra learning rooms! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This stage not only has great lighting, but also a tv mounted on the ceiling with a video camera! </td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Teacher Dinner:</b> This week Tyler and I were invited to his school’s
“welcome” dinner in Gwangju. One of his co-teachers was so kind and came to
Hwasun to pick me up at the apartment. We drove to Gwangju to a restaurant that
is famous for its mushrooms! This was great for me, but Tyler usually isn’t a
fan of mushrooms. We were hungry though, so anything was good at that point!
The restaurant was really cool! It was a traditional “sit on the floor” place
and there was a gas grill built into each table. On the grill was a large pot
that boiled water. They brought out large trays of lettuce, beef, and of course
LOTS of different kinds of mushrooms. One of the teachers at our table was in
charge of putting the various foods into the boiling water to cook it. After it
was cooked she then served everyone at the table. The food was really good! It
really wasn’t even that flavored (which is good, because we’re always a little
worried everything is going to be so flavored or too spicy to eat) but this was
great! They kept refilling our bowls until one of the staff members came and
emptied out the boiling pot of the leftover meat and veggies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They then proceeded to fill the pot
with rice, onions, spinach, and a raw egg. We had no idea why another course
was being prepared because we had already been at the restaurant for an hour.
We found out that this was called “porridge” and it was actually really
delicious! Throughout the dinner many toasts were made. We weren’t exactly sure
what they were for, but we have a feeling it was to welcome everyone back and
to have a good school year. At the beginning of dinner Tyler and I were
welcomed and were given a beautiful chocolate heart shaped cake from his
principal. Apparently, since that day was our 1 month anniversary (and Tyler
had mentioned that during one of his introduction classes) the principal found
out and gave us that as a gift. It was so sweet! We were shocked and felt very
honored as we know that was a very special moment. We then introduced our
selves and thanked everyone for welcoming us. After dinner we got in a car with
the principal and another teacher. Thankfully, the other teacher was driving as
the principal had been poured many drinks (a tradition to show respect) and we
were a little worried that he would be the one driving. In the car he asked us
a few questions in English and we got to know him better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we got closer to Hwasun he asked us
if we liked “shave ice.” Of course both of us love shave ice so we told him
yes. About 2 minutes later we pulled up and parked in front of a café. We got
out, assuming we were stopping for shaved ice and got excited because we were
happy to find a shave ice place in Korea! We all sat down at a table and the
teacher went and ordered for us. When she came back we were slightly
disappointed as “shave ice” here is completely different than in the US. This
shave ice included a milky ice cream on the bottom, some white ice shavings on
top of that, and red beans poured over the top of it all with some dried dates.
Completely different than what we thought it was going to be! However, it was
such a kind gesture of this principal to take us out for dessert after he just
paid for our dinner and we were happy to try something new, so we happily ate
it! The taste wasn’t too bad, however it was a strange combo that I never
thought I’d be eating! After we were finished they drove us back to our
apartment, we thanked them for everything. It’s times like those where we wish
we knew more of the language and could express our gratitude in a deeper way,
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Well we are very excited for the
weekend as it will be a nice break from the long week! More adventures to be had! :) Also, we finally have a video on our youtube channel! We promise our future videos will not be this long! But we had to get that project finished so we could always remember those moments! :) </div>
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Ceremony Day</div>
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Ceremony day was crazy! As Val already mentioned, the
co-teachers were waiting in the ballroom while we filed in and said hello and
what school we would be teaching at in Korean. Some of us were better than
others, but the co-teachers got a real kick out of watching us struggle, it was
pretty funny though! After I went up, I was told that my co-teacher was running
late, so I had a seat in the back with another native English speaking teacher.
After the ceremony I was told there was a mix-up at my school and that my
teacher was on the way. I sat with Val and her teacher (Jin) at lunch. Jin is
very nice and I think she will be a perfect co-teacher for Val! We ate quickly
so we could get our luggage before the storm of people would flood the elevators.
Right after we got all of our luggage downstairs, I was told that my co-teacher
had arrived. I said a quick goodbye to Val and hoped we would find each other
later.</div>
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I followed our orientation leader to meet my co-teacher. My
co-teacher and I said a quick hello and got going as the chaos had begun. My
co-teacher’s name is Mrs. Kim. I grabbed all my bags and rolled my huge
suitcases and Mrs. Kim lead me to a car with another teacher. I just barley
loaded all my bags into the small car with the three of us and we drove off!
The other teacher drove us to a parking lot somewhere else in Guwanju where we
transferred my stuff into Mrs. Kim’s car. Mrs. Kim tried to look up the
immigration building on her GPS, but the touch screen was not cooperating, so
we just started driving. After driving for a while and asking for directions a
couple of times, we arrived at a building. Mrs. Kim hopped out and told me to
wait in the car. When she came back, she told me that the immigration building
moved to a new location. So again we set off!</div>
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By the time we arrived to immigration a lot of the other
English teachers were there and the immigration office was crowed. As soon as
we entered I hoped to find Val, but she was nowhere in sight. Then as I went to
take a seat, I saw here in one of the cubicles with Jin! After Val finished up,
my co-teacher and I still had a long wait in front of us. To give some visual
clarity to this situation, it was a lot like going to the DMV back home.</div>
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After we finished with immigration we headed to a Bank in
Gwangju to set up an account. The lady at the bank was very nice and knew a
little bit of English, which was helpful. Most of the time Mrs. Kim and the
lady at the bank talked in Korean and then Mrs. Kim would help me fill out all
sorts of forms. To set up online banking, the lady at the bank called a number
that would translate Korean to English in order to explain that I needed to
create a username and password to access my online account.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This process took at least 30 minutes,
but it was nice to have it done. Next we were one our way to my assigned
apartment in our new home city of Hwasun!</div>
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The drive from the bank in Gwangju to Hwasun was about 40
minutes. As we entered a tunnel, Mrs. Kim told me that on the other side was
Hwasun. We exited the tunnel and what I saw was beautiful! All around you can
see GIANT lush green hills (or small mountains) surrounding the city. We drove
into the city and pulled up to the apartment. Unsure of when Val and I would be
reunited, I decided to take all my bags to my room. The apartment building is
very new and modern, but does not have an elevator since it only stands 4
stories high. You should probably know that at this point, it is very hot
outside, very humid, and I am still wearing my dress clothes from the ceremony!
I stand at the bottom of the stairs with all my bags as I begin the journey of
carrying them up one-by-one because they were too heavy for my co-teacher to
lift. By the end of getting all of my bags to the 3<sup>rd</sup> floor, I was
covered in sweat! Thankfully, before we left, Mrs. Kim suggested I change into
casual clothes because it is too hot. I gladly agreed!</div>
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Next we took a walk from the apartment to the bus stop where
I would catch the bus to school tomorrow. After exploring the bus stop, I used
Mrs. Kim’s phone to call Valerie’s co-teacher. They were on their way to Val’s
assigned apartment, so I wrote down the address and we drove over there to meet
them!</div>
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The other apartment is only a few minutes walk away, so we
were arrived pretty quickly. As you know from Val’s last post, when I arrived I
saw Val’s giant bags sitting outside the apartment building. I decided to be
nice and surprise Val by carrying her bags up to the apartment. Mrs. Kim lead
the way as we headed into the elevator. I was thinking how nice it was that
this apartment complex has an elevator…but wait, it does not go to the second
floor!? I guess if you live on the second floor you are just suppose to take
the stairs. So instead we went to the third floor and I muscled the bags down
the stairs to the second floor. Finally, we turned the corner and found the
room with the door propped open and we were together again!...I just made
myself tired again from writing this, but you know the rest of the story from
Val’s post.</div>
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First Day of School</div>
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We got up early the day after the ceremony to get ready for
school. Val didn’t have school, but decided to come along on the bus ride to
see where she needs to get off and help make sure I get off in the right place.
When we got on the bus, I had a note on my phone in Korean that Mrs. Kim had
told me to show the bus driver. He read it and nodded. We had no idea what the
note said, but hopefully he knew what we needed to do. The bus was pretty
crowed and there is a lot more floor space on these buses than the city buses
back home in Oregon. (That way your can fit more people.) Val and I were
sandwiched between bunches of Middle School students and then we pulled up to
the next stop. To our bewilderment, there were about 15 people waiting at the
next stop! They came on one-by-one and after each person entered we continued
to compress. Eventually, all but one person made it one the bus. One girl was
asked to get off because the door would not close. As we took corners, everyone
swayed together from one side to the other. After about 10 minutes of this we
arrived to a stop where all the Middle School students poured out of the bus.
The rest of the ride took about another 30 minutes, but we had a lot more space
and Val was even able to sit down. The bus ride was very beautiful driving past
farming fields stretching out to the green rolling mountains.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the front of my middle school classroom.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking down the driveway to my school down to the Gym.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking at Iyang school from down by the Gym.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Iyang school Gym.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the bottom of the stairs in front of the school.</td></tr>
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We kept standing up, wondering if it was time to get off,
but each time, the bus driver shook his head and we sat back down. At last we
could see it. The school was up a hill and tucked into one of the little
mountains. We exited the bus and Mrs. Kim was standing outside waiting for me.
I said goodbye to Val as she was going to catch the bus back to Hwasun. Another
teacher picked us up in their car and drove us up the hill to the school. The
school building looks a little worn in certain aspects, but is kept very clean!
During a certain part of the day all the students clean the school, so it is in
their best interest not to mess it up. Also, they have all the modern
technology inside. I have my own cubical desk in the teacher’s room, with my
very own desktop computer all in Korean…very helpful I know, but we are working
on switching it to English if possible.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iyang school tucked into the hillside.</td></tr>
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The students are very nice and like saying hello in English.
My first middle school class only has 6 students! It was nice having such a
small group and to be able to talk to each of them. My second class had only 9
students. I can tell that I am really going to enjoy working with the middle
school students. After I finished my classes, I was told that the vice
principal said that I could leave 2 hours early! So I gathered my briefcase and
headed back down the hill. When I got to the bus stop, it was hot and the
middle of the day, so there was little shade to hide from the sun. Not knowing
when the next bus would come, I stood out in the sun in my dress clothes for
about a half hour before I finally saw the bus approaching from the distance.</div>
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After getting home, Val was waiting for me and we did
some shopping in town before dinner. Then for dinner we went to a burger place
and each had a burger. We don’t know for sure, but we think the meat in the
burgers may actually be pork because it tasted a little different and there
aren’t many cows in Korea.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our burgers!</td></tr>
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After dinner Val and I had some more shopping to do
for our apartment. We thought, “what better place to shop than the giant Emart
in Gwangju?” So we caught a bus to Emart, which took about 40 minutes. We
shopped around the mega store for a couple hours looking at all the different
things we could find. Finally, we found the perfect shelves to go by our bed,
but the packaging was really long and rectangular. We wanted to take a taxi
home, but had no idea whether someone would be willing to drive two foreigners
that do not speak Korean with two big shopping bags and two giant rectangular
boxes. I made Val go talk to the cab driver because I figured the driver would
have a harder time saying no to her. He agreed to take us back home to Hwasun.
We put the shopping bags in the trunk and just barley fit the selves diagonally
in the back seat across Val’s lap. We did it! The best thing about taxis in
Korea is that they are very affordable. For the 35-minute drive home, we only
paid 20,000 KWN or $20 USD. He was such a nice guy!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful view from the overpass.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We found our shelves!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Putting the awesome shelves together!<br /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">All in all, it has been quite the adventure so far going
from a nice hotel filled with other English-speaking foreigners into the thick
of all things Korean. It has been lots of fun, but needless to say, we value
our sleep!</span></td></tr>
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