The first week (and weekend) as a teacher.

We are now finishing up our second weekend as teachers, and after a long first and second week, we are very happy to have a nice weekend. Last weekend was the first Saturday that we had enjoyed as well...our first Saturday in Korea we just slept on and off the entire day. The following Saturday, Kyle got sick, so we stayed in. So we have been making it a point to have some fun and explore

This is my class.

Pisces Class!

 I am the new Pisces class teacher. Allie Teacher is my name. It's interesting how they name the teachers here. Not Teacher Allie, or Ms. Allie, or anything that we are used it. When the Korean teachers write anything for me, they write "Allie T." where my name goes.

I have 9 kids in total. From left to right, top to bottom.... Sarah, Lonnie, Ashley, Candy, Charlie, Aaron, Linsey, June, and Ryan (my favorite).  This past week was St. Partick's Day at Worwick, so if you can imagine all of these kids running around with rainbows painted on their faces and giant green hats made of paper, it was a pretty crazy day. I have had the cutest infestation of Asian leprachauns in my classroom.


After the work week, I was dead tired. Last Friday night, we met up with Katie, Kyle's sister, and went out to a foreigner bar called Travelers. It is run by a Canadian guy. Good food, an all English menu, and shuffle board. When you walk through the doors, it's like you've magically been transported back home. It's nice. One of the teachers was leaving our school, so she had a going away gathering there. It was lots of fun, but very very sad. Even though I only knew these teacher for a week or two, we all became very close. Briana will be missed. And we will definitely visit her in Portland!

Katie, me, and Briana.

Last Saturday we slept in and went out to a breakfast/lunch place called Suji's. It was amazing. We had a breakfast burrito and some french toast. I forgot to take a picture...I just dug in. It was a  nice bit of home cooking.

We had a hard time choosing what to eat.

Last Saturday night, Kyle and I hosted a little party. Everyone brought some food and drinks. Mia, one of my coworkers, brought quesadillas and guacamole. We now refer to her as the patron saint of Guac. Avocados are VERY expensive in this country. They don't grow here, and they cost a lot to ship. So when you find them for a good price, you buy as many as you can. Koreans don't really know much about them, so when they start to go soft, they assume they are rotten, so they put them in the clearance section of the produce area. That's when all the foreign teachers swoop! I bought 2 for 4800 won, which translated to about 2$ per avocado. I thought that was pretty cheap, considering what they go through to get here. And it was worth it!!

And the most exciting thing of all...It snowed last night!!! Everyone was leaving our apartment after the potluck, and I opened the window to get some air and there was snow falling from the sky! And it stayed! My friends were throwing snowballs with the snow that fell on the cars. It was very cool cold.

This is a picture I found online of the town we live in. It looked like this today- gorgeous! But it's a lot colder than it looks. Don't mind the people sitting in the grass...they definitely weren't there today.

The following day, it was freezing cold. About 15F outside. I bundled up and ventured outside. This was me, happy, inside a bathroom. I do not look like this when I walk outside.

This week's blog was written last weekend, but I was too lazy to upload all the pictures, so sorry if the wording is confusing. I tried to change things around to make it sound like I just wrote it, but I didn't.