Hey everyone, So I have done two weeks of teaching now. It's still a steep learning curve but 1 of my middle school lessons on Friday worked very well. YAY! Last Saturday I visited the Seoknamsa (or is it Seongnamsa?) temple and the Bodeoksa temple. They were only a short bus ride away but were in the mountains in very beautiful natural surroundings. They are Buddhist temples where nun's are living. The temple is also next to the main entrance of a hiking trail...

Hey everyone, So I have just finished my first week of teaching and I'm feeling a lot less nervous than I was at the start of the week. I have to teach in two schools here. They are out in the middle of the countryside and about a 20 minute bus ride from my house. The first is an elementary school and the other one is a middle school. Unlike the UK, Korea splits its education system into three schools - elementary school for 4 years (primary school), middle sch...

Hey everyone, Sorry its been a week since I posted but the last seven days have been full on. We had a medical check up on Saturday and thankfully I didn't faint when they took blood - in fact it didn't hurt much at all which surprised me. After that we began 13 one and a half hour lectures over four days, plus three lots of beginner Korean lessons too. The lecturers were really good and I got lots and lots of new ideas to implement in teaching. We learned eve...

Hey everyone, Just a quick update on how things are going here in Korea since the last blog. The evening I arrived at the hotel, I didn't sleep at all that night until 8am in the morning (and then got up at 8.30am) because my body clock was out of sync. I was then tired! We went to get Kimbap (a Korean version of sushi) for breakfast and then got taken to the airport again where we registered with EPIK and took their bus down to Daejeon, making another friend ca...

Annyeong haseyo. I have arrived in Korea! It was a long long journey. I left Brixham at 9am GMT on Tuesday and arrived at my hotel near Seoul Incheon Airport at 10.30pm local time. A journey of approximately 30 hours. So here's the story of the journey. First we drove to Gatwick but as we used the A303, we managed to stop for lunch at StoneHenge. It costs a lot to go in so didnt do that, but I did get to see some example bronze age huts and read a few informat...