The biggest challenge since arriving in Korea has not been the food, or the language, or even the horribly hot and humid weather - it's been the lack of Internet access.
As I mentioned previously, at our training location near Gwangju there was no in-room access, only as computer lab shared by 50+ of we teachers. That made it difficult to spend much time online, to update this blog or my photo page, or to email family and friends. On Tuesday, we spent most of the day in travel mode, first taking a bus to Nuan, near the port city of Mokpo, to meet with the governor of the Jeollanamdo province, and then to travel on to the four English camps. We arrived late in the evening at the Damyang camp and although we were delighted to find that each teacher had been assigned their own room and that there were LAN connections, there was no Internet. After two days, that's changed and I now have online access in my room! Hallelujah!
There is still one small problem: finding time to spend online. Our teaching day goes from 7:40 am (breakfast) through 9:00 pm each day. And that's with no extended breaks. Pretty exhausting for those of us used to 8-hour work days and two days off a week. We'll be teaching at the elementary camp until the final day, August 1.
As I mentioned previously, at our training location near Gwangju there was no in-room access, only as computer lab shared by 50+ of we teachers. That made it difficult to spend much time online, to update this blog or my photo page, or to email family and friends. On Tuesday, we spent most of the day in travel mode, first taking a bus to Nuan, near the port city of Mokpo, to meet with the governor of the Jeollanamdo province, and then to travel on to the four English camps. We arrived late in the evening at the Damyang camp and although we were delighted to find that each teacher had been assigned their own room and that there were LAN connections, there was no Internet. After two days, that's changed and I now have online access in my room! Hallelujah!
There is still one small problem: finding time to spend online. Our teaching day goes from 7:40 am (breakfast) through 9:00 pm each day. And that's with no extended breaks. Pretty exhausting for those of us used to 8-hour work days and two days off a week. We'll be teaching at the elementary camp until the final day, August 1.
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