I am going to get my ARC card tomorrow and to get a cell phone. Sorry I haven't been able to speak with you but I have been staying at Brendan's house half of the time and he doesn't have internet yet.

I guess they had to submit my work schedule to the SMOE office for approval and the school got a call from the office saying that I needed overtime for any after school classes. There fore i'm getting 4 or 5 hours of overtime per week. Also, i'm actually not teaching at a public school. I'm teaching at a private girls highschool. Don't really know how this works. I'm the first native english speaking teacher that they have had here in 10 years so I am supposed to make up the curriculum, I am teaching 13 classes with the 10th grade, the same class 13 times. I have 5 conversation "workshops" with the english teachers where we just sit around and talk for an hour. Every Monday afternoon I spenda period consulting with the English newspaper on campus and editing their stories. 3 periods a week I conduct practice interviews with the 12th graders in english, and lastly i have 4 hours of after school classes where i can pretty much do whatever I want. (One teacher at another school plays football with the kids every day and calls passes in English.) The after school classes are overtime pay. It sounds like alot, but it's only 26 hours of teaching time over 5 days. I come into work at 9:40 am and leave at 5:40 pm Tuesday-Thursday and at 4:50 pm Monday and Friday. That's less than 40 hours and i'm getting overtime for 4 of those hours. I have 3 co-teachers, all of whom are very nice and speak practically perfect english. One of them is helping me with alot of stuff.

My school is 4 subway stops from my apartment. But i have to change llines 2 or 3 times so it takes over a half hour to get there from my apartment. It took me an hour this morning from Brendan's front door to my office at the school. It's taken us both over an hour to get from my apartment to his apartment.

I am currently writing you from the laptop that my school has given me. Unfortunately all of the programs are written in Korean...awesome. At least I figured out how to convert the keyboard from Korea to English.

I've been kind of overwhelmed recently trying to figure out the subway and my school, traveling back and forth to Brendan's apartment, buying groceries and supplies, etc. I am planning to take pictures of the both apartments so that everyone can see what they look like. His has a REALLY nice shower the the rainfall head and a massaging head also. But, it is decorated like girl lived there before him. All pink and purple.
My nieghboorhood is like a cross between Bourbon Street, times square and tokyo. Its very bright, with tall buildings and advertisements everywhere. It's apparentyl where young people go to hang out. My street is a little quieter then the main road though. Brendan's place has a bit more a nieghboorhoody feel, like Brooklyn or something. There are at least 3 or 4 other English teachers living in my building so thats nice. Brendan has 1 living in his but he doesnt like her.

Thats about it for now!