Motown to Seoultown

So it's been awhile since my last post. I can't believe it's been six months since I've been here. In this short time I feel like I've grown a lot and still have some growing to do as well.

I read another post by another teacher who's also been here six months and I felt the same about a lot of what he was saying. That first night coming into my apartment like "what was I thinking?", getting adjusted to everything, to now where I'm very well adjusted and feel like I'm in a real nice routine and groove.

I've also become a bit more outgoing even my INFP nature. I regularly try to go out and meet people who have the same interest in things I do. Though I still seem to have a problem with the "follow up"...meaning I meet a lot of people but I am totally lacksadsical and lazy about making plans with them, which is why throughout my life I usually just have a few close friends I hangout with. I usually just wait for people to call me or something which I have gotten better at changing since I've been here.

I am also really taking a look at my future plans I wrote at the beginning and a couple of years ago and seeing how I can accomplish those. I like teaching for the time being, but I def. don't see myself here for more than two years (though I know how life goes...never say never). I do plan on renewing my contract if possible or if not possible, just finding another school.

I also don't want to go back to school, because frankly I don't like it. I graduated in graphic design, but I don't like that anymore either. I know I want to do something within the art field, as I am also focusing on photography now. I also have been working on a small business website that has done well considering it's only two years old. I hope for that to grow even more and that will be incorporated into my plans as well.

So I'm pleased with the growth I've had since I've here, but also realize there is still much more room to grow. Being young is great :)

So here's to the next six months...the third quarter.

Hmm what else. I have been traveling a bit around Seoul and to some cities outside of Seoul. I went on my second hike to a city called Chuncheon. That was a great hike as the view was spectacular...the most spectacular I've ever seen. I'm not a hiking person, but it's something to do every now and then...though I don't plan on doing in the winter because I hate the cold.

I've also been to more places around Seoul with my friend Wu. I really like the Insadong District since I like art. There are some galleries I want to check out there.

My Korean is...ugh. I'm not satisfied. I feel like I'm making no progress at all. I still can only make a few words when I hear Koreans speak. They talk so fast.

I've also been pretty active on meetup.com meeting people from all over. This one movie/dinner meetup had me, someone from Indonesia, Russia (this was weird because she was korean, born in Russia, and had a Russian accent to her English), America, Canada, and Korea. I even went to a meetup where I played some Monopoly with some Koreans in which I found that rules are slightly...different lol.

So next post I will talk about some of the lessons I've used. Some other teachers have asked for some ideas so I don't mind helping out at all because it is hard trying to come up with a lesson that the kids will enjoy while at the same time having them actually learn something.

Peace yall.