the plane has landed
We're here ... whew. At the Village finally, and the first round of kids come Monday. In the meantime, another set of Korean machines and panels to learn, another round of faces to meet, another room to unpack. Our time here has been like three jobs, three homes, so it's nice to finally be able to live out of furniture instead of a suitcase and really be getting on with the job we were hired for.
The past week has been a flurry of moving and shaking hands - Tuesday was the big opening ceremony, and all the local politicians were there plus UCCS and Yeungjin representation and a slew of reporters. (Sidenote: The mayor of Daegu speaks great English and even in Korean proved that charisma is a major political selling point worldwide; also, Korean journalists are quite snappy dressers, contrary to their American counterparts.) The thing was broadcast on all three national news networks and it was quite the affair. And everyone was appropriately wowed by the grandiose architecture including the major selling point - a retired jetliner suspended 20 feet in the air, used to simulate the flight experience for students - so it appears to be a promising start. Now comes our part ... wish me luck! :)
Oh and belated happy Halloween, everyone. Hope y'all enjoyed my favorite holiday back there for me - they don't celebrate it on this side of the world, and what with everything else happening, our crew didn't do anything to mark it, either.
4 comments:
Your kids didn't ask you for candy on "Halloween Day"? At our school in Bundang, our principal said the kids couldn't dress up because of his Christian(?) beliefs (but apparently, they'd dressed up in previous years). Good luck in your new digs -- you'll do great. You're always such a calming, collected presence!
I've been so busy that I didn't do the kids krossing thing this year. in fact i didn't do anything on halloween except trivia
Trivia is important, too! Don't forget, we were within a point of winning.
I didn't have any little demons visit before I left for trivia, so I put Reese's peanut butter cups on the doorsteps of my neighbors in the fourplex. Turns out, somebody swiped them.
Anyway . . . Happy Belated Halloween, Kristin!
You are going to do so great! Everyone will flock to YOUR section of the glass classroom walls :-)
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