Tuesday and Wednesday

Yesterday went well. I only had 3 classes, so it was kind of an easy day. I've been trying to get some planning for next week's Korea Around the World culture topic. It's kind of vague, but I think I'm going to talk about Kpop coming to the US, Koreatowns, and Korean movies in the US. I believe that is what the topic wants me to cover, but it's a bit hard to tell. I made a presentation on the website prezi, and it looks pretty good. Lots of videos, but I probably won't show them all.

I got my ARC card yesterday! YAY! That means I finally get to have a real cell phone. Korvia was great in providing us with a prepaid phone as soon as we got to the airport, and it's been really handy, but it's NOT my iphone! So after school I went and spent about an hour and half getting my phone sorted out. I went to Olleh, which seemed to only have two plan options, and I didn't want to choose between only 2, so I went to SK instead. These are both the big cell phone carriers in Korea. I was deciding between two options: one plan was for 1GB of data and 130 minutes of cell phone use and calls between SK phones is free, the other was unlimited data and calls between SK phones is not free. I ended up going with the 1GB that was slightly cheaper, but I think I'm going to change that because this afternoon, we figured a few more things out. My coteacher brought me to the bank to give them my new phone number and my ARC card. Last night, the cell phone people couldn't set up automatic payment of my bill through my bank account because the records at the bank didn't match. I got that all set up now. After setting up the banking, we went to the cell phone store this afternoon. They got automatic payment set up, and they told me a little bit more about my plan and the other one I was debating between. I tried so hard last night, and so did the person who was helping me at SK. She was really great, and we tried our best despite the language barrier. Anyway, my plan is 1GB and 130 minutes, unlimited texting, the other plan is unlimited data and 300 calling minutes. What the heck! The unlimited is obviously the better option, and it's only 7,000 won more! I have to wait 1 month to change it now though, so I'll get that figured out next month. For the time being, at least I have a phone number.

Gianni was already at my apartment by the time I was done with the bank, and he made some really good pasta. He mixed some veggies into the ready-made pasta sauce, and we had that for dinner. It was really good. We went out for bing su (shaved ice) again last night too. It's delicious. We got dutch coffee, so it had coffee in the shaved ice and some chocolate bits around it. Gianni made a video that I'll post later.

Today is listening test day at school, so I had one class cancelled because of that. I have two more classes, and then it's my first teacher class tonight. I am going to be doing a conversation class with the non-English teachers in the building. I'm excited, but also nervous. I'm not totally sure what is expected of me. I think the topic is going to be something along the lines of the differences between Daegu and Boston and South Korea and the USA. Hopefully it goes over well. After school, we are having another staff dinner. This time it is a welcoming one for the new teachers and vice principal. I'm not sure yet where we are going, but hopefully, I can make it to quiz night at Traveler's again too.