second day

so, tuesday i got up and ventured downstairs to find food. i didn't really have anything cause the box of stuff they gave me just had drinks and some cookies, along with dishes, pots, and toilet paper. there's a lil convenience store in our apt building along with some restaurants and other stores on the first floor. i bought some instant noodles, fruit cocktail, and chips . . . but i couldn't even make the noodles cause i couldn't figure out how to turn on the stove! it's gas, and i've never used that kind. i found out later from cindy that i had to turn on the gas first on a pipe next to the stove. oops, hehe. the apt is really nice though, i'll put up pics soon of it. i'm really sad there isn't a microwave though. just the stove-top and a pull-out grill thing. there is a dishwasher though, and a washer/dryer.

anyways, a TA from the school came to pick me up in the afternoon, and i found out that there's another girl in the building who just got here too to work for avalon. she's down on the 2nd floor and her name is hayley. i'm on the 6th floor. she's from new zealand and she loves flight of the conchords! she talks just like them, it cracks me up. it was great to have someone else who's in the same boat as me. a lot of the other "new" teachers have been here much longer than us, some for a couple weeks. anyways, the TA took us to our school on the subway, only 2 stops from our apt. the school is really colorful inside, like no school i've been in. they threw us right into it though, we had to do speaking tests for new students to see what level they were at. it wasn't too hard, we just had to ask them a few questions then rate their responses depending on the content, articulation, vocab, etc. we got better as we went along. we headed back to our apt after that, stopping to get groceries on the way. that was an adventure, trying to find english on things so we could figure out what stuff was. the money is confusing too, it seems like so much when you buy stuff but it isn't really. we tried to find converters too cause i need them for my plugs, but wandering around to convenience stores got us nowhere. 

i used hayley's internet (she can get it from the businesses on the first floor) to talk to cindy, and we managed to meet up at a subway stop and go to a store where i finally got a converter! but they only had one :( we went to a store called e-mart, it's like a korean walmart. i finally made my noodles once we were back and cindy told me how to use the stove. i felt so proud of my noodles :) we met up with hayley too.