So it turns out that I need to keep a journal due to my online class at Mizzou, and seeing as I'm in Korea, I feel that this would be a perfect opportunity to get this done. Here's to resurrecting my old blog that I created 3 years ago on my previous visit to the motherland.

LET'S BEGIN. Today is November 4th, 2012.

Putting things in a chronological perspective, I've been in Korea for exactly 3 months, and this first entry will entail the first month. August (from the 4th through 28th) entailed an orientation which my friends and I learned nothing from except for one statement: If you die in Canada, you die in real life. Keep in mind that this orientation was to prepare us for living and teaching in Korea for the next six months at the least. But I digress. It was great meeting new people, and touring around Korea was a blast. The TaLK program failed to teach me about how to turn on my heater for the winters, how to deal with the bus system, any true teaching techniques besides games, and to tell you to avoid tap water like the plague. Thankfully, I was informed by my parents with the intel to never drink Korean tap water, but a few of my friends fell "typhoidically" ill thanks to the failure to debrief the students. Other things they failed to include: how to throw out trash (as it is almost all recycling), how incessantly annoying mosquitos are, and premonitions of Korean schoolchildren and how they -will- attempt to hit you south of the belt if you are a male. The TaLK program, however, correctly emphasized the general cultural differences, highlighting the drinking culture and the importance of age in society. Overall, the orientation itself was largely uninformative, but the orientation experience was one that I'll never forget. It's truly fantastic to see how many cool people you can meet from just the simple common interest of wanting to teach in a country abroad.

Anyways, stay tuned for the next month. Where I actually start teaching!

PS: Please do not pay attention to the previous posts from the past. They're practically irrelevant. I was also a huge idiot.