I was very lucky and the principal of the school, Alexia, picked me up and drove me in her car my first day of work, especially after a long flight and long drive from the airport the night before, and a night of off and on again sleep. While very lucky, it also distorted my perception of how far I am from the school and how long it would take me to get to and from my apartment and school.
I’ll describe more about the school and my experience observing and teaching in another entry but I spent my first week (Tues-Fri) observing classes and trying to pick up on everything I could about what I would be doing. Talk about information overload!
Anyway, I got to meet Nicole, the other foreign teacher. And at the end of the day, she was to help me get home because she had been to the apartment at least once – as it was the last teacher’s same apartment that I replaced. Haha well…Nicole wasn’t completely sure and I was NO help! Trying to find my way in a neighborhood where all the signs seem to look like the artwork of a three-year old (aka Korean letters that I don’t understand at ALL at this point) We wandered around for about 2 hours before FINALLY finding the place and once we did – it was HEAVEN! I changed out of my heels that I’d been walking around in for 3 hours and we went for a delicious meal of galbi. On the way, I took pictures of various landmarks so that I could find my way to a point where Nicole would then meet me and show me the rest of the way to school. These are what you see below.
The road home - apartment just ahead on right.
I used the school just ahead to know that I would turn the street just before. Schools are a good landmark in general because people know where schools are - schools and churches.
The dry cleaners - the next landmark on my journey to school.
A green fence - which is actually the common fencing used I've noticed but not in my neighborhood so much - thank GOD!
A church - again another good landmark. Dad, does that steeple remind you of anything? Gswend maybe?
A small ally intersection - watch out for cars but more importantly motorcycles and kids on bicycles - they are more dangerous and will take you OUT!
A SIGN IN ENGLISH!!! YAY!!!! This is what I turn at to go off the main road
Looking across the main road where I have to wait to cross 10 lanes of traffic to finish the walk to school. AHHHhhh the joys of city life
2 comments:
thats how i learned how to get to school in ireland too...execpt my signs were in english if there were signs...hopefully soon you will be able to find different ways to school...
gaaah, this thing is being mean to me. Won't let me post a comment or anything...grrr.
Anyway, what I said before was about those signs - I'd say they were done by a very good three year old. I mean, talk about talent!
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