I like to teach Engrish...

So far my experience in Korea has been great. Things could not have worked out any better. I have a great school, a great co-teacher, a new friend, a nice apartment and for the first time I feel as though I am making a difference in peoples lives. Yay!

Here are a few random pictures that I think you might enjoy...



Dr. Fish!!! It felt like I was being shocked by tiny volts of electricity. They really liked my feet.


Here I am serving some soju to the principle of my school. I was encouraged to do so by Mr. Choi, the gym teacher. All the new teachers had to do this. I was a little nervous about spilling soju all over my boss but I managed to avoid doing so. I probably drank two bottles of soju that night. So gooood and so cheeeaap.


I really like all of the teachers at my school. Matt and I played ping pong with them the other day. I was having expecting to get destroyed by my co-teachers but I managed to hold my own even against Mr. Lee who was wearing a complete ping pong track suit. Matt and I played with Mr. Choi and Mr. Bae as a double teams. Mr. Lee encouraged me to try the penhold grip as opposed to the shakehand grip which I am used to. After playing with the new grip I definitely prefer it over the old one.

On the weekend I went out with a few of my friends from the EPIK program. Jacob, Jack and I met up at the Seomyeon station in downtown Busan and from there we took line 1 to the Pusan National University. At the PNU we stopped at a Dr. Fish where we dipped our feet in a tank of nibbling fish that ate the dead skin off of our feet. Here's a video of the experience...




I took Saturday off so I could catch up on my rest and I did lots of e-mailing and movie watching. Sunday I went to a Starbucks in downtown Busan where a I met a group called the Socrates Cafe that meet every Sunday at 11am for discussion. Every Sunday the group makes a list of questions and vote on one question to discuss. The questions are created from our own life experiences. Recent topics include 'What is the relationship between memory and personality?', 'Is sexuality socially constructed?', 'Culture relativity' ,'Do we have a right to ignorance?'. My EPIK friend Mike was already there and invited me to come. It was a very enlightening and enriching experience. I definitely plan on going next week. After the discussion a few of us went to Gwangalli Beach where we swam for a few hours in our clothes. It was my first time swimming in the Pacific Ocean! It was amazing. The water is so much warmer then the lakes at home. We also went out for lunch and ate some really spicy food. I can't remember what it was called but it was great!