day two...

another quick post, as it is almost noon and i have still yet to leave this little room (i've been taking care of a few things - figuring out my cell phone, internetz, and all that good stuff)! i'm hoping to go exploring today, although it was raining hard this morning (and the roof in the hallway was leaking). i have no idea if it still is raining, unfortunately i can't see outside from here.

yesterday was day one. i was functioning on little sleep (i kept waking up every few hours and staying up for a long time) and no food (i couldn't eat before visiting the clinic) and had to introduce myself in front of the school, which was actually only the high schoolers (and besides that is a fairly small school anyway) in chapel. i have no idea what i said up there.

i met my fellow teachers, who are proving to be nothing short of amazing. i'm working at Korea International Christian School, which is incredibly conservative, but for the most part, the people are great. some of them took me out to dinner last night (asian fusion and the outback steakhouse of all things for dessert) and showed me the town. don (dallas), steve (uk), sunny (new york/chicago/las vegas), and dustin (oklahoma) are all great, interesting, and very diverse and i'm excited to get to know them and everyone else (they are a lot of foreign teachers as well as korean teachers). a few were excited to hear that i go to mars hill, as they have heard a lot about mark driscoll and the church.

imagine my surprise when i was introduced to everyone as the new GEOGRAPHY and AMERICAN GOVERNMENT high school teacher!! i almost laughed out loud, knowing that i will be learning right along with these students, a few chapters ahead if anything. it turns out that most foreign teachers here weren't placed in their element. i even had to teach a few classes yesterday. the lady in charge told me i was to be "introduced" to the class, then she handed me a book, showed me where she left off (she was filling in for me since their school actually started two weeks ago), and left the room. wow. this should be interesting.

this is turning out fairly long, but i need to get over to the school and to run a few errands. oh, and about the doctor? not too painful, although i have a huge bruise in my elbow-pit where the doctor jabbed a needle in to draw my blood...