Camp Life

It has now been three weeks since I've arrived in South Korea. I started working last Monday and all in all it was a looooong week. It probably didn't help matters that I went to bed at 7:30 am Sunday night (due to the previous subway fiasco) and then I woke up at 12:30 to get ready for my first day of English Camp. Luckily I only had to work from 2:00-6:00 that day. I'm working the camp and then will start working at the elementary school in August when school starts back up again. Camp has been fun, and once again the students are adorable. They're always saying, "teacher look" "teacher same" "teacher help"! We're still working on them to say our names, i.e. Ms. Grace. It will come though. Basically I am teaching reading, spelling, idioms, speaking, grammar, writing, math, and science from 9:00 til 2:00 and then we have games such as roleplaying (bank for me), pronunciation, and then activities for the afternoon. I am soooo happy to be back in the classroom teaching! It has also been great meeting other English speaking teachers whom are in the same boat as me, although one teacher has been working for the school for four years now (He fell in love and married a Korean woman when he came to teach abroad, awww). I'm getting free lunch and dinner while at camp and its been good for the most part. However, last week I went to bite into a side dish that simply looked like a side dish of greens, and to my amazement I saw little whole fishes staring back at me! Umm, looking around, I noticed that other people were eating it no problem, but eating a fish with its head, eyeballs, and body stil attached wasn't for me. I'll look carefully before I get my food next time!