My first week

So I have reached the end of my first week. Round of applause please.

I had my first day of teaching today, so, of course, I did the sensible thing and stayed out drinking until 4.30am. I was a goodbye for 2 of the boys, where were off back home.

We went straight from work at about half 8 to the bar. A very american looking place, I think it might have even been called Miller Time.

We we drinking from massive plastic bottle of beer that only cost £5. (The glass is a normal size) We also had sweet potato cake, and yes it is ming.

Most people stayed till about 1 but me, two other girls stayed and 2 of the korean teachers stayed. Why are I always the last to leave? We continued drinking and got through 3 of the bg beers.

When your in a bar in Korean you press a bell on the table to make the waitress come over and they always give you little nibbles with your drinks so we got given a weird dryed squid jerky thing. It stinks to high hell and makes you like rot but it is delicious. I'm so gross.

Eventually left and we ended up speaking to some random korean man who owns a local restaurant for ages. It's so funny everyone wants to talk to us. Some guy yesterday almost killed himself trying to shout 'Hawllo' from the back of his motorbike.

The school reception

Felt horrific all day and had to figure out all my timetables, syllabus and a load of other crap. A few vomits later I felt a little better but sooo frigging tired all day. I've basically been drunk every night this week. My liver has turned to pate but according to my health check I am disease free, so at least I have that.

The screaming kids and one of the western teachers in the back ground.

The weather is still beautiful here. Like a lovely english summers day. But there are fucking mozzys everywhere. Evil little bastards have bitten me to shit. The koreans are also terrified of the air conditioning at the moment because they think that it will increase the germs and give them swine flu (very odd, they also have this nonsense idea that if you leave a wall fan on in your bedroom at night it can suffocate you. Fan death- what a load of bloody nonsense) so in order to stop us sweating to death we have to open the windows and all the evil mozzys fly in. So annoying.

Moving to my new apartment tomorrow. Yay!!! Can't wait to have a proper bed rather than the noisiest blow up bed in the world. I'm watching TV as I watch this and I have just seen an advert for a loo with a squirty bum thing. The TV here is so hilarious-loads of variety shows that all seem to take the piss out of the fat and mentally disabled.

I'm loving the teaching so far. The kids are so sute but you have to be really strict with them and give them detention a lot. For every class I set my rules and punishments-

1. Do you homework (detention and 50 lines)

2. Speak only english - NO Korean! (25 lines)

3. Sit quietly (Stand outside or stand up at the back for the whole lesson)

We're really encouraged to be super strict with them cause they do so much school that they will take the piss at any opportunity. We are also told that we can hit them if necessary. Not hard obviously but my boss was telling me that he made some of the boys stand with their arms out for the whole lesson holding all the books they had in their bag. The parents love it and one of the biggest complaints is if we aren't strict enough. I feel quite sorry for them really. They have normal school from 8 till 1 or 2 ish then come to us for another 7 hours ish. They don't finish until around half nine then they have to do they ton of homework that is set for them. And these are all primary school children! Apparently this continues throughout high school and once they get to college they stop working and chillout.

I have to talk in a very slow slightly americanised accent for them to understand me. I feel like such a twat.I'm going to get a Joss Stone like mid-atlantic twang.

Okay, I have to go to bed as I am struggling to keep my eyes open

xoxoxoxo