Dong Jak-ing it

Wow.... it's been a crazy few days.

I left the SMOE training yesterday and met Mr. Song, the head of the English Department at Kyungmoon High School in DongJak Gu where i will be teaching for the next year. After meeting the vice principal, and a few of my co-teachers i quickly grabbed my apartment and some furnishings...

Since then I've spent some time walking around the school, having a few meals with the english teachers at Kyungmoon, and even going for a few drinks with them. As it turns out, these guys love to drink and apparently my 'In' at this school will be the fact that i look like i can drink them all under the table (It's probably kind of true)

In Korea everyone drinks soju... its kind of like watered down vodka and even though Koreans love to drink, their tolerance isn't very high apparently. Being able to go toe to toe with a middle aged korean man is apparently a great way to make friends... sorry ma, if i come home an alcoholic its because i needed to advance my career ;)

Anyways,

What i really wanted to talk about in this post is my place... I live in this crazy little back alley apartment building in Dong Jak (a district in Seoul) which is pretty central and close to all the good major areas (which i haven't seen yet)

The room is.... tiny, the place is called a one room, which isn't really an exageration. I guess technically its 2 rooms, one bed/living/kitchen/laundryroom. and one bathroom/shower. When i got here i didnt have anything in it so my coteachers brought me to furnish it (courtesy of the school). As you can see, for the first night i didnt have a bed (i do now). And no, neither SMOE nor Kyungmoon supplied the adorable Yoshi Slippers...

The pics are of my room, bathroom, and entrance to the alley which leads to the alley which is my street