An Actual Update (of past events)

Ok sorry about the huge delay of over one month here. This post won't exactly get me to all the current events, but I hope it will get a good few things out of the way. In the next few posts, I'll be talking about my place, my coworkers, my students, my life, my new friend, and other things. I'll see how far I get in this post.

My apartment:
For jobs like this in Korea, a school provides its native English speaking teachers with a place to live. For most schools, this is an apartment that is nearby the school. In fact, when you fill out forms to apply to come here, one of the questions you get asked is whether you want them to find you an apartment near the school, a bus terminal, a subway station, etc. This school is a bit of a special case though as it has dormitories. They have special dorms for teachers that live here. For teachers that are married, they live off campus. For teachers like me who are single (or basically anything that is short of actually being married), they are provided housing in the school's dorm. It's not as great as an apartment, but it's more space than I need and it makes the commute really nice.

My first apartment was on the top floor of the dorm in the teacher's wing. The teacher that lived there before me was the only female teacher that year (we only have one this year as well) and she was super concerned about leaving a mess, so it was pretty clean. Unfortunately, the clean stopped at the point where it required dusting and wiping surfaces down. It took a number of blackened paper towels and I never mentioned it to her because she was so afraid of me thinking she was a slob. I did joke about it with the other teachers from last year though when they told me about it.

Now my apartment up there was okay, but it wasn't that great. The view was nice, but the shower kind of sucked (the hot water stayed good for 5 minutes) and the heat just randomly died and came on. After two days and halfway unpacking, I was informed that I was going to need to move because of some BS reason that the Vice Principal had. I forget what exactly it was, but I found out later my moving didn't solve anything because my new neighbor here didn't move. Either way though, the move was a very positive thing for me. I have a slightly larger space now and the bathroom is certainly bigger. My shower is excellent, even being on par with the one I have at home. Additionally, the heat here is actually pretty regular. As it's May, that's no longer a problem. When the winter comes though, it will come in handy. Also, it's on the second floor, so I don't need to use the elevator which was slower than all hell and had a tendency to be crowded at hours when I would usually be using it. With a few minor improvements, my apartment has become a home to me. I have three videos of the progress of remodeling it. I am saving the last one for when I have it exactly how I want it, so that will hopefully come around in about a month or two. There were some more expensive additions I needed to make after I started getting paid. Here are the videos:

March 2
March 12
April 6

Okay I was hoping to write more, but dinner just finished so I'm going to go eat. Until next time, peace out.