My First Day

So Monday morning we jumped right in. The bus picked us up at the apt. at 7 AM and we wondered the school a bit. Breakfast was served at 8...and it was good! All new faculty had arrived the day before so there were many introductions. The returning faculty were so pleased to see so many extra faces in the school. They were all smiles :)

We met in the black box theater and had a brief talk from Andy (Elementary principal) and Jorge (Head of school) and then did some cool "get to know you" activities. One was, each person had to say their full name and tell the story behind it. It was funny to learn that EVERYONES names had a story whether long, short, or funny! Helped a bit with identifying people but, No, I do not know everyones names. I still refer to a lot of people as "the greek kid" or "the one who wore the purple dress the first day" I'm getting there!

I finally met the other Ginger P. Yes, there is not only another Ginger here...there is another Ginger P. She is shorter than I am and has dark brown hair but the confusion is still there for many haha. I am currently going by Puff haha :)

I saw Karen again (she is Kinder teacher and visited Chadwick PV earlier in the year) and I met Mark the other kinder teacher. Karen is from Guam and has been with CI Songdo for a year now and Mark is from London but was most recently teaching in Lithuania (I think!).

We went on a tour of the school, the elementary was the morning tour, then lunch, then the middle and upper in the afternoon. Very Very cool facility. We got to play with the telepresence, see the amazing theatre, the pool, the 2 gyms, the fun library (I wanted to stay in this room all day!), the TV studio, the 2-D, 3-D, and 4-D art studios, and of course the classrooms. It was exciting to everyone.

That was enough for all of us tired people so they sent us back to our apt. and we organized a shopping trip. We took the train in to a store called e-mart (yes an equivalent to walmart) to purchase common household stuff we needed. Of course in the necessisties was a coffee maker :). Not to much in the way of decorations. I will get some pictures up of some of the more amusing things we found in e-mart. This was a 4 story mall type building and very overwhelming so we purchased our goods and cabbed it home.

We set up our new items (even though most of us are not even unpacked yet) and went to dinner. A long and tiring but fun first day!