today we had to get up early to go in for a training session with other new teachers. apparently we missed the first 2 days of training on mon & tues, which sucks. but everyone keeps saying we'll be fine. we listened to some of the other teachers' examples of lesson plans and the director of the school gave us some tips for teaching. they told us we have to prepare 4 lesson plans for friday, which freaked me out. we have to present one to all the teachers too. i'm so lost, i have no idea how to do it! classes start on monday too! i guess i'll just have to learn by doing and hope it gets better. avalon is very structured, kinda too structured cause you have to do a ton of lesson plans. they haven't set up a schedule yet either, so we don't really know what level we'll be teaching. apparently like everything is last min here in korea. eek. and food is soooo spicy! i've already had some meat that about burned my tongue off. not a fan of that. i need to get more groceries so i can fix my own food more, instead of just getting take out. 

everyone is really nice though, even though i'm kinda worried about actually teaching a class. i did find out that a class shouldn't be more than 12 kids. so that isn't too bad. now i just have to try to keep their attention. all  the kids are so cute though. i'm surprised that not many adults seem to speak english, like in most shops. it's really hard to explain what you're trying to find when no one understands you. hopefully i'll get better at that or learn some korean to get by, hehe. i've seen some american food places, like mcdonalds, burger king, kfc, outback, baskin robbins, subway, dunkin' donuts. i think a couple of them are in walking distance but the others i'd have to get to by bus or subway. the area i live in is called migeum, and the school i work at is in the sunae area.

the shower in my apartment leaks a bunch though to a drain under the sink. i found that out the hard way when it leaked on my clothes. i don't have internet yet, i asked about getting it but i dunno when it's actually going to happen. right now i'm at school doing speaking tests for kids. we're in between kids at the moment. i guess i have to get my arc card before i can get internet.