A Blog a Day Keeps the Parents at Bay: March 2013

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

From Dollars to Won

Here are a few pictures of some Korean money called Won or 원 in Korean. I've included the conversions from Won to dollars today.

10W=$.01, 100W=$.09, 500W=$.45

backsides of the coins..

1000W=$.90

backside of 1000

backside of 10000

10000W=$8.96

50000W=$44.82

backside of 50000

Sunday, March 3, 2013

More photos I just discovered! Apartment and school.

Just found a bunch of photos that I had taken but couldn't upload! yay! So the first batch has a photos of the odd things in my apartment, things that are a bit different than home.


Thermostat

This is the thermostat. It has a temperature dial and a bunch of other switches. The switch in the top left says if I'm heating just my water or the floor as well. Not sure what the other switches do...

Outlet!

This is one of the outlets in my apartment. It's totally different than American ones but I have all the adapters I need so that's good.

Microwave

Okay so green means stop and red means go...I guess. If I press the green button the food is good to go, if I press the red button it needs more time...seems a little backwards to me and I keep forgetting how to do it...

Light switches

These are light switches. The top one is for the dining room, the bottom one is for the kitchen and I can't figure out what the middle one does...nothing, I guess?

washer

This big box is the washer. Thankfully someone left instructions on what all the buttons do so I can do my laundry. :) yay for clean clothes!

Teacher's room!

Teacher's room or lounge! This is where I spend most of my time. Unfortunately, there is no door to the room so all the students can see in whenever and they always come in to distract us, oh well.

My desk! ^^

My desk is where all the planning and other things occur. The kids don't really know me all too well yet so they don't bother me as much. I have the biggest desk, a computer on my desk, a nice chair and a window next to me. I feel so lucky. The only slight downside is the door is directly to the left of my desk which means kids can see me from the main enterance without coming into the teacher's room.

Me at my desk!

Another shot of the teacher's room. This is the view from my desk.

Main entrance and welcoming area. Aka where the kids hang out during breaks.

Library!

The library is sort of like a multipurpose room. There are meetings, study groups, counselling sessions, make up tests and all kinds of other activities that go on here.

One of the classrooms

HI!!!!!

Lazy Sunday=Lazy Dinner

I didn't feel like making anything tonight and I definitely did not want to dress up to go to a restaurant so, I bought some microwave food from the little family-owned store a block away. Turned out a lot better than I thought it would and it cost less than going out for dinner. ^_^