On your mark, get set...

Having gone through 6 days in my homestay, 3 days at school, 2 days of teaching, and 10 different classes of crazy middle school girls, I can say with fair certainty that my new adventure has officially begun.  And already I'm a bit winded!  <--let's just hope that's because I'm sick :(

Teaching, I've decided, is a lot like running the 400m in track.  It's fast--you hear the whistle, you start running, and you really can't slow down.  But it isn't quite a full on sprint, either.  You must pace yourself lest you cramp up or tire out before the finish line.

Anyway, it really does feel like a race.  The days are flying by!  And maybe like a dream, too?  Everything is sort of familiar and sort of strange at the same time.  I have a home, a room, a job, a schedule, a phone (finally!), and a host mom who cooks for me and makes me drink tea and eat porridge and go to bed early when I'm sick...  But everything is in a foreign language, I don't ever fully understand what's going on around me, and I can only walk about a block in each direction before I get lost.  Life is at once vivid and blurred--very dreamlike indeed.

I've resorted to speaking like a 6-yr-old child: short, broken sentences that mostly consist of a verb and a noun (and usually not in the right order, either).  Food--eat!  Go--school?  

Maybe throw in a few other words for embellishment.  Medicine already have.  Now I sleep.  Yes, meal very tasty!

Impressive.  I know.

In any case, it's almost dinner time (thankfully--so hungry!)  Yaaaay for internet and blogging again!  Did I mention that there are 7 people living in this tiny apartment?  Host mom, host dad, 3 kids, grandma, and me!  But it's still somehow quite comfortable.  Or did I say that I have 700 students and that I literally am the sole person responsible for teaching them ALL English listening and speaking (they only get reading/writing/grammar in their other English classes)?  Well...I just did.

Ok that's all!  (for real this time)

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