U & I

It has nearly been a month since I arrived, exhausted, at Byeollae Station ( 별내역). I can confidently say that I am in a much different place than I was when I arrived. Teaching has its ups and downs but each week feels a little bit more like routine. Now that the craziness of Summer Intensives is over, the hagwon ( 학원) feels more peaceful. After Wednesday, I start teaching all new April (the pre-planned curriculum) classes as the new semester begins. It is time for my current classes to level up and I have no idea if I will have any of the same students or not! My Edge classes (the classes I have to plan myself), however, will mostly stay the same. I've been doing a lot of unit planning for those.  The directory wants there to be a better system in place for how to teach the different textbooks and how to organize each Cycle or Unit, so I have been planning and sorting etc. Sundays, I make my way into Seoul to attend Jubilee Church, an international, interdenominational church...

At last, the moment you've been anticipating: Hannah completes her second blog post from Korea! I'm currently sitting in a Tom N Tom's on a sunny Sunday morning, sipping a caramel macchiato and listening to the chill Western music they're playing. It feels like it should be a crisp September morning and not a steamy August one and I should have some glamorous job, like a fashion designer or an editor at some important publishing company. But I am quite content at the moment. I'm feeling quite adult, to be completely honest. But let me stop prosing and move on to what you really want to hear about: the past 2 weeks. Let's start with the airplane. Picture a large jet. It has 9 seats across each row in economy and who knows what lavish accommodations in first class. You find your seat and say hello to the single other companion in your section. But it turns out that the seats were double-booked so your single companion moves seats and two different women sit ins...