My birthday (ace)

I'll start by saying that my birthday was a very good one. After only spending 6 days in this country, I had about 14 people show up to my birthday party. There is a very large group of people who all work at our school, and a large number showed up for my birthday, which was really nice. We went out to a restaurant that serves a spicy, veggie-laden dish which was really good. Other than that, I pretty much worked earlier in the day and chilled out before that.

I have to say that I am really going to like Korean food so far. It is definitely very different from western food or even Thai food - the spices are completely different - but I think it has a very good flavor. Kim chi is also very much growing on me. Also, our schedules here are very different, but I think I'm getting used to that too. We work in the evenings and have the whole first half of the day completely free, which is pretty nice. So we usually end up being very productive during the first part of the day, then we work in the evenings. The only problem with this is that sometimes we are hungry after work - at about 10:30pm or so - which is a pretty bad time to eat. But that is something we are getting used to. I just like to cook up a nice lunch when I can, and I usually cook up more than we can eat so we can take it to work. Anyways, that's all for now, as we are about to hit up a bookstore that caters to English teachers; we are going to look around for some research about Korean learners and about teaching methods in general. We wish the best to all of you, and we'll update things as soon as we can!