Cory And Katy

Ok, so I know we haven’t posted anything in a while. We have had some pretty exciting things happen to us, but we have also been busy and….maybe a little lazy So two weekends ago we went to Mudfest, which is exactly as it sounds. A festival with lots of mud that you can play in and lather all over your body. There were loads of foreigners there, a lot more than Koreans. Katy and I had really been looking forward to this festival as it’s supposed to be the best one to attend. It was pretty good, but it did begin to rain as the evening progressed into night. Which made it hard to find a dry place to hang out and have a few drinks. Katy and I did watch a beautiful firework display that was done on the beach, and got drenched doing so. It was worth it though. So onto the latest news.

I was supposed to start my public school job on July 1st, but that fell through. So, I waited patiently and ending up getting a summer position working for an elementary school in Dongnae, which is about an hour and 15 minute commute away. This isn’t so bad because it’s only temporary, and the people at my school are really cool. I will be teaching an English Summer camp of 5th and 6th graders, and will be building my own lesson plans for the short time I’m there. Then I was promised to be transferred to a closer location in Jangsan (about 25 min away). Jangsan is eventually where we want to end up after Katy finishes her year contract. I just signed a one year contract, so we will at least be here until next August/September.

So, today was my 2nd day at Geohak School and my first time seeing a Solar Eclipse. Currently I’m doing lesson planning while the kids are on their summer break. Today while I was taking a break from lesson planning a saw a news article about the Solar Eclipse that was supposed to happen today. It was the first I had heard of it, and was starting to think that I had completely missed it by a few hours from the way the article was sounding. So I did some more research and found that it was happening somewhere around 10:00am for South Korea and the clock currently read just after 10am. So I grabbed a few sheets of paper, poked a hole in it and ran outside. I looked up through my tiny hole, and sure as heck part of the sun was covered! I bolted back inside and with some hand gestures and broken Korean I had coaxed the Vice Principal outside to look through my makeshift solar eclipse viewer.
After a few minutes we had most of the staff in front of the school looking into the sky to see what could be seen.
So after seeing the Solar Eclipse, I ended up having to leave early to pick up my Medical Check and going to submit my application for my E-2 (English Instructor) Visa.