First Day (so far)

So, first night in Daegu = conquered. I'm supposed to get my apartment today, so let's hope that actually happens. The motel last night was a love hotel, which was pretty funny. It was pretty classy though; you wouldn't have even known based on the decor.... minus the Love Love machine right off the elevator ^_^

My first day at work is going pretty well so far. I met up with another teacher, Thomas, who is from Scotland (jealous Carmen?). We actually met him right outside the hotel last night. Nothing sketchy... he lives next door to it. He was pretty helpful with bringing my luggage into the motel, and then back to Avalon this morning. I'm not sure if I mentioned this, but I traveled with another new Avalon teacher last night from the Seoul/Incheon airport to Daegu. It was nice having another Westerner for a speaking companion, especially since my memory of Korean is a bit null at the moment.

Arrived at Avalon, was introduced to the boss, who seems nice, and then we headed off to HomePlus for breakfast/lunch/brunch at Dunkin Donuts. Then it was back to Avalon for a brief introduction and then some training on how placement tests work (the Westerners just handle the speaking portion, which seemed hectic since there's only one other teacher besides myself and the other new guy, so he's handling it all) >_< Not the best idea to wear my new high heels... the heels are fine, but the brand-new part is the killer. Finally gave in and bought socks at the store around the corner. Lunch was on the boss, yes!

Ummm, what else?? The school doesn't actually open for another month, so no classes = less pressure on me right now. We're just focusing on placement tests, which are easy enough. Next week starts my official training, since we have Wednesday - Friday off for summer vacation. Not sure if I get Saturday off, since Avalon supposedly has placement tests on Saturdays.

Getting a pay-as-I-go cellphone on Wednesday hopefully. There's a few stores supposedly selling them off the US military base, so I'll just grab a taxi and go. I might as well go to Costo too, I think. Thankfully the Costco is only around a $10 taxi ride from my area.

That's it for now!! As of now, the only internet I'll have is either from my work computer, or from a PC bang. So the updates might be a little infrequent until I can get internet set up at my new apartment. ^_^