First Few Days of School. Can I get a "Mamma Mia?"

First Day of School!

So on the first day of school we were given a shadowing schedule from 10-7 and we followed around different teachers. Kindergarten here is around 7-8 years old so it wasn’t at all what I was expecting. The kids were already reading sentences and printing and speaking in English. Kindergarten goes until 2:10 and they serve lunch to them. I had no idea what I was eating but I tried everything anyway. I know I had tofu soup, kimchi , sticky rice and fish but I have no idea what any of the other stuff was. It was good but holy shit is it spicy! Back at home I literally die a little bit eating like… Mr. Noodle. I guess I will have to just suck it up (that’s what she said)

After 2:10 when the kindergarten kids go home the elementary kids come in (9-12). I shadowed a few of the classes and the kids all gasped when I took my hair out of a ponytail. Here they call blonde hair gold or yellow. Little do they know how much I paid to have yellow hair. Bahaha.

After all that Jasmine (the girl I landed with) and me went to mcdonalds and a big mac tastes the exact same except less expensive. I bought a hair straightener just like my chi but for $22!!!!! What the hell was I doing buying a 200 dolla hair straightener?

Second Day of School:

Today we had kindergarten graduation rehearsal. It is so fricking cute. They learn western songs and have to perform them with a song and a dance. One of the groups did “mamma mia.” I think I’m going to film it and put it in facebook because it is so damn cute. Here they also have “song festival” once a month where each kindergarten class learns a western song and performs it in front of the other kids like a recital. Not western as in like.. HEE HAWWW but western as in, Justin bieber.

We went for “galby” which is kind of like fondue except instead of broth they give us a mini grill. We all had to take our shoes off and sit on the floor on little cushions and for 11 dollars we got a HUGE serving plate of raw beef we got to cook ourselves, rice, 2 kinds of soup, 2 kinds of salad, and a whole table of other stuff. Its interesting how they eat it. They give you big pieces of dark lettuce and you put the meat and whatever else you want in the lettuce leaf and then wrap it up into a little lettuce present and shove it in your mouth. After that they took us to “home plus” which is basically walmart! they have all the same kind of stuff just in different packaging, like the bottle for febreeze LOOKS the exact same but the words are just in Korean. I literally was in heaven. Home plus is awesome and legit 10 seconds from my apartment.

They’re giving free Korean classes so I might take a few so I know what the hell im eating. My apartment building also has a hot yoga studio in it and “norebang” which basically means get drunk and sing karaoke.

Tomorrow the school is going to rehearse graduation at the theatre, we’re going to take a bus there and “supervise,” then shadow some more and then jasmine and I are going to go out with one of the teachers, tiffany for her boyfriends birthday. Booze is $1.40 cents here (cheaper than water) it tastes like nail polish remover mixed with tequila. Its cheaper than my vex!

I just keep writing these emails in the morning before I leave for school but I cant send them until I go to a mcdonalds or coffee place. Coffee is expensive here, good thing I don’t drink it. Mcdonalds is cheaper but tastes the same, they have some weird items like “bulgogi burger” which I have no idea what that is and rice and stuff but otherwise even the toys are the same!!! They also have a baskin robbins down the street! Everyone is superrr fashionable but its not hard to be fashionable because things are so cheap here, it really feels like Toronto sometimes!

I haven’t taken the subway yet but I do have a “tmoney” card which you just load with money, its 1 dolla a ride! The subway map is a little bit terrifying (SEEEE ATTTACHED)

So much to dooo! Miss everyone so much!