Friday, April 10, 2009

The Plot Thickens

So Hyun Bum found a document about the teaching class at Andong Elementary that I had no idea I was teaching. It was sitting around the staff room and has a date stamped on it from before HE even arrived at the school. It says I am to teach a 3 month teacher training course every Tuesday and Thursday from 5:30-7:10. What's more, it says nothing about any kind of payment for the course, except that Andong Elementary will get 300,000 won for hosting it.

Aside from the fact that 3 months is a long time to teach a course when you've only been in the country for 2 weeks, this schedule prevents me from going to my Korean language course on Thursday nights, which makes me a might unhappy.

Luckily, since I have the best co-teacher that ever lived, HB is calling the POE for me to find out more details and if we can either shorten the class or get another native teacher to teach part of it.

Aside from this minor setback, things in Korea are going well. Today, Sara and I are getting cell phones and (hopefully) bedsheets. We also plan to go up to the Andong City Dam and see the sakura trees blossoming.

Woot!

2 comments:

  1. Now we may have an idea what all of the Korean writing on the contract said... goodness!! :-)
    I hope they figure it out - that doesn't seem right does it?

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  2. Wait...no bed sheets?! omg...the agony; the torture! Who do they think you are? Scottish?

    no idea where that came from

    love the randomness






    ^^ Thanks for keeping up to date with the postages
    Can you tell me your home address yet or are you two keeping it a secret?

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