Orientation - Classes

 There were at least 4 lectures each day that we had to attend. They covered all sorts of topics revolving around teaching in Korea, and some about living in Korea, too.

Some lectures were involved little to no movement or thought as we just sat in our chairs and listened or silently scribbled down some notes.

Other lecturers chose to get us participating in the kinds of activities we would soon be encouraging our own students to do. These were by far the most fun classes.

Other classes had activities for us as teachers, to still get us up, moving and active the way and teacher might do to keep their students interested and paying attention.

 Finally, other lectures had us doing group projects or presentations to practice some of the situations we might encounter in our classroom in the months to come.

 Regardless, orientation was an overall BLAST and felt like several months of building friendships rather than one short week of days planned hour to hour.

 The orientation had about 500-600 teachers present, and we were split up into classes largely decided by our placements. I was in Class 1, which was actually full of all the teachers going to Seoul except for 4 others and I going to Ulsan.

 There were 6 classes in total, and each class was split into a A group and a B group to make things more manageable. Then, each group had one Korean team leader which went to all our classes with us and was there for anything we might need or have questions about. This is my group 1-B! Our group leader, Jun (or June-bug as we like to call him), was taking the picture, but you'll see him in pictures later on.

This was our class 1 beginner Korean class (a mixture of As and Bs), which was taught by June-bug!