how things roll

so, in a little bit i'll be heading to day 2 of work. work this week pretty much entails me hanging out and watching other teachers teach, reviewing materials, etc. the hours are nice, only 7-10p. and if my schedule stays the same i'll only have 3 classes each day, for about 5 hours of teaching, two of prep. not a bad schedule.

out of the three classes i've met so far, two are pretty decent. the third one is a bit younger, so i think i'll struggle some at first as i figure out how to best get information across. but nothing feels like it'll be completely out of my hands so far.

every day follows the same rough schedule, which i haven't exactly figured out yet, but i don't think it'll be too troublesome. the other staff i've hung out with so far seems like a cool bunch, there seems to be a decent foreigner community where they house us all. so that'll be reassuring. the weird thing though is at my school, all of the teacher except for me and one other will be moving on within the next three or so months. that should be an interesting transition.

today i should ideally be heading to the hospital to get my checkup for my alien registration card (lets me get internet, phone, bank account). gotta get some passport photos before that. so i should probably head out soon, haha. tried to go yesterday but someone was blocking in like three cars in the building's garage, including the one we needed.

looks like i'll be moving into my permanent place on saturday, as the previous teacher is leaving early then. living in a hotel has benefits, don't need to clean, free juice, good tv, but i want to actually settle in somewhere. apparently it's decent because at least one other teacher was jealous that he wasn't able to take it, haha.

so yeah, things are finally getting going now that i've met some other teachers. i was getting a little bored all by myself, so hopefully this is a good precedent for what's to come.