school

Week 3
This is now my second week of classes. And its nice to be in class. The word spread fast and alot of the kids knew who I was before I had them in class. The kids are great, they really like saying hi to me in the hall way because they arent allowed to be so friendly with the normal teachers. This month Im teaching the 4th and 5th graders, next month ill teach 3rd and 6th graders.
Last week I finally got my foreigner registration card, so i opened a bank account and Ive been reimbursed for my flight over. This weekend I got my phone, and I will soon get internet.

This weekend I went to Seoul to meet Matt and some of his friends for some American food in Itaewon, and id have to say my burger was pretty tasty. After that we hit a couple skate parks, the first one was very unique, they basically converted a plaza into a skatepark, and there were quite a few pedestrians/spectators. The second was a basic skatpark kit, similar to any suburb in the States. While there Matt's friend Tyler struck up a conversation with some local kids. Since he had taught gradeschool, and is teaching middleschool, he knows the extent of the kids vocabularies so he was able to ask the familiar questions and give familiar responses, he even struck up a few songs they knew. Its very interesting that we know what words every child in Korea knows (in english) if we know their age. And it was funny to see the group of children it attracted. We skated pretty hard, and two different moms came up to offer us water/tea which was greatly apreciated. I guess theres quite a few skateparks in Seoul, so im looking forward to seeing what else there is.