hello anna teacher!!

so today was my first (mostly) full day at work. i wasn't actually teaching at all, which is good, considering the fact that i was not fully functional. i'm still in the observation stages, but i do get to start teaching on monday, which i am totally pumped about. i'm completely smitten with all of my kids, even the older douchier ones. i'm sure they'll seem less magical later on when they won't stop speaking korean and won't listen to me and all i have to do is get through a lesson but right now they're the greatest thing ever. i'm still a novelty at school so all the kids get really excited when they see me in the hallway and want to say my name, which about two thirds of them say wrong anyway. also, because of korean word order which apparently cannot be ignored despite the fact that the school is supposed to be entirely english, they call us all by our first names followed by the word "teacher." how could "anna teacher" possibly ever not be adorable?

one of my coworkers took me out last night so i could see some of yongin at night/try delicious korean things. we had korean bbq, which was delicious and i am really excited that the entire school is going out for more tomorrow night. i was also introduced to a magnificent plum wine, which has a very nice cherry liquid dimetapp sort of tang to it. we met some korean university students who spoke varying degrees of english, from limited to none. they all thought we were the shit and were really impressed with my vast korean vocabulary of four words. i also taught them how to say "fuck yeah!" and i'm pretty sure one of them was trying to profess his love for me in korean but i couldn't understand. :( i got one of their numbers, one who spoke pretty much no englishes, and he proceeded to txt me in korean and then call fifteen minutes after we parted ways to ask if i remembered him. yes, hyun, i remember you. please let me nap before work.

i promise to take pictures of my kids soon so you can see how great they are. i just feel weird whipping out a camera while there's another teacher observing me, so clearly it's significantly less creepy to wait until i'm alone with the children to photograph them.