one week, good food, korean women love bush

Well, I survived a week. Actually it's been a week and 3 days now since I've arrived. Oh wow. That means that I've spent a lot of money in...a week. This week has been strange, stressful and felt much longer than a week. I moved into my apartment on Monday which is quite roomy and just empty for the time being. Every day I'm checking the dumpsters for free goodies (koreans throw away everything, they don't necessarily believe in second hand things) so it's good for us foreigners...we just snap up all of the unwanted items. It's crazy what you can find...tables, rugs, tvs, microwaves...whatever. And it's not really in a dumpster, it's just off to the side where all of the trash bins are. Have I written about the trash? I need to go outside and take pictures because...it's a bit ridiculous. Okay...for a country who is so ridiculous with recycling, I have NEVER seen more litter. And really, the litter is just naked women on postcards with their phone numbers on them (remember, prostitution is a friend here, AND theres a brothel in the building connected to mine)..okay..so you have your trash bag, which is quite small...and you have a food scraps bag and everything else is recycling and when you go downstairs there are several bins.

One thing about being here, is that i'm realizing that my english is getting worse! haha. the other day i asked my kids to write the sentence "we had food to drink". oh well. tonight i made my first meal in my apartment...penne and spaghetti sauce. i'm pretty proud of myself. i must say that i've been drinking a good bit of soda here. but also a lot a lot of water.

last night we went to hot yoga. it seemed like something neat to do and i felt like i was going to die while i was in there but afterwards i felt great. my horrible day just disappeared and my headache went away a bit until i had some wine and soju at a friends apartment. hot yoga....is yoga that takes place in a room that is heated to 104 degrees. i have NEVER sweated more in my life. i had horrible balance but....i loved it. as soon as payday comes i'm going to get a membership. it's only a 10 minute walk from my apartment (as is everything else it seems!) so thats good and its in a part of town that i haven't really had a chance to discover. i've been meaning to get over there and just haven't had the chance. if i'm not doing something then i'm sleeping, so i don't know. anyway...back to the yoga. they gave us keys to a locker so we went in there to hang up our coats, hats/scarves/many layers (it's cold!). and well...there are just women walking around butt ass naked. there is no way i could shower in there with everyone but after the class i understand why they would want to. after the class we went in there to grab our stuff and it was like all 30 people who were in class with us were in there naked hanging out. i'm too prudish. the lady who was teaching the class was very great. she made sure to say as much as she could in english but for the most part we just had to look to see what was going on. she stayed by us a good bit to correct our form. so yeah...i like yoga. crazy.

okay...school. my school is extremely unorganized, i think that i've hinted at this before. the other day, well, yesterday i was in class and i had assigned some homework which i had been assured that they could do. i get to class and see that only ONE of the four kids has done the work. i was so pissed. i made them sit there quietly doing the work and they were still defying me. i told one to go sit in the corner and he said no. i went to get a korean teacher and all i could find was my boss who came in and belittled me in front of them! she told me that they could not do that work and that i shouldn't have assigned it. but really...they can their just lazy and were testing me and she took their side. i was so pissed off i just left the room, went to the bathroom and started crying. i got myself together and came back and she started back again. after class was over...i let them go early, i needed a break. the korean teacher i split the class with came in and apologized for not telling me where they were. NO ONE TELLS YOU ANYTHING! you have to figure it all out yourself. luckily i do have SOME teaching experience but aaaah! turns out most places are like this but this is one of the most unorganized that many have seen.

last night we had a girls night to just vent about our schools and everything else. it's hard to remember that i haven't been here that long so of course i don't have it figured out. but it feels like i've been here longer than i have. i don't know. i need to go clean dishes and figure out if anything is going on tonight besides sleep!