Daegu Got the Best of Me!
I managed to survive my first week with lessons! My first day started pretty rough like I mentioned, but the week got so much better as it went on. It probably helped that I did not have school on Friday. It was the schools birthday, yes they don't have school because it's a holiday. The schools in the states should really celebrate the schools birthday as well!
To celebrate the survival of our first week of school a bunch of us Waygooks (foreigners) went to Daegu. We had been planning it all week, for all of us from the Gyeongbuk orientation to get together. I got to see so many people, I think our orientation took over Daegu!
I went over with Darren, Mark, and Beth; we were planning to get to hang out with other people since we see each other almost everyday. However, we pretty much stuck with each other the entire night. We got to Daegu pretty early and did a lot of wandering around (mostly because we didn't have our Korean speaking friends with us, so we had no idea where to go or how to ask anyone how to get to where we wanted to go). We were all pretty nervous that our entire trip to Daegu was going to be a huge failure. BUT, after a while we finally managed to find the strip of bars we wanted to go to, find the station everyone was getting into, and find a hotel room for us to stay in.
We managed to meet up with everyone, go out to dinner, and have a few drinks (or a lot of drinks!) We had a blast though! I also got to experience the Noraebang for the first time, two nights in a row! For those of you that do not know what the noraebang is, it is Korea's karaoke. It is set up so you and your friends rent out a room, and get to sing all those great karaoke songs! We had a blast!
I have my first week of teaching without Kos, the teacher I am replacing, so I'm a little nervous. At least I have Seoul to look forward to this weekend with everyone from orientation again!
To celebrate the survival of our first week of school a bunch of us Waygooks (foreigners) went to Daegu. We had been planning it all week, for all of us from the Gyeongbuk orientation to get together. I got to see so many people, I think our orientation took over Daegu!
I went over with Darren, Mark, and Beth; we were planning to get to hang out with other people since we see each other almost everyday. However, we pretty much stuck with each other the entire night. We got to Daegu pretty early and did a lot of wandering around (mostly because we didn't have our Korean speaking friends with us, so we had no idea where to go or how to ask anyone how to get to where we wanted to go). We were all pretty nervous that our entire trip to Daegu was going to be a huge failure. BUT, after a while we finally managed to find the strip of bars we wanted to go to, find the station everyone was getting into, and find a hotel room for us to stay in.
We managed to meet up with everyone, go out to dinner, and have a few drinks (or a lot of drinks!) We had a blast though! I also got to experience the Noraebang for the first time, two nights in a row! For those of you that do not know what the noraebang is, it is Korea's karaoke. It is set up so you and your friends rent out a room, and get to sing all those great karaoke songs! We had a blast!
I have my first week of teaching without Kos, the teacher I am replacing, so I'm a little nervous. At least I have Seoul to look forward to this weekend with everyone from orientation again!
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