Orientation Part 2

I had 8 days of a fairly intense orientation for EPIK. We arrived in Daejeon (대전) on Feb. 20 and finished on the 28th. I made some great friends both Western and Korean. I almost cried when we all had to say goodbye. The pictures I'm posting are from in the classroom and from our field trip day to a traditional farm village.

Andy from England and Stephanie from Wisconsin. Stephanie and I actually live in the same city now, just on opposite sides.

This was my desk partner and final project partner Darren from Austrailia.

This is Son from San Diego. He's pretty comical.

Our fantastic, fantastic class teacher Jay.

This is our class on the field trip.

Peter from Canada and Chris from England.

Andy and Beth (Canada) eating bibimbap 비빔밥 at the village's cafeteria.

Looking down the table at our whole class eating.

Grace from New Zealand and I eating our 비빔밥.

 This is a traditional Korean game which is basically a seesaw, and you work together to get some height.

If you get the timing down right, the two people can actually get really high in the air.

We made cell phone accessories. This is Tyler from Florida. He is now living and teaching on Jeju Island.

This is Daniel. He was our assistant teacher, and he was super helpful and kind.

Jay and Daniel working together to make a cell phone accessory. They were super cute, like older sister and younger brother.

This is Charles. He is another EPIK staff member. He is really funny.

This is Courtney from New York. He are posing in front of our scarves that we dyed ourselves.

This is a Korean tractor. We all got to take a ride on the back.

Everyone was super excited to have a turn on the tractor.

The mountains everywhere are really beautiful. I think that everything will be even more beautiful once the trees start blooming.

This is our class learning how to make tofu!

This is our tofu!