Saturday prep

So I listened to the first 20 minutes of the Korean language CD twice and I can say and understand "Excuse me" "can you speak English?" "I can speak English." "I can't speak Korean" "I know a little Korean." "yes" "no" "hello" "goodbye." I also spent some time looking at flights again I'm thinking it may be smarter to do one way tickets because I have no idea what may happen over there but then again for passport and imigration purposes it may be a better idea to have a flight coming home..... aloso studied more of the workbook since I was all excited this morning. Jobs look like they may be easier to find than I thought but we'll see. The woman I have been trying to contact about finding a house over there still hasn't sent me a message yet so I'm still waiting for that....

Tickets

So I spent some time looking for tickets today looks like if we stop in Hawaii and Japan its the cheapest.... It would be a 27 hour trip over there but about $2,000 cheaper is okay with me. Also looked at the Korean news paper online found some ads for teachers but the one I found was only 1 day a week for an hour.. which probably isn't what I am looking for... It was cool to look at the website though because I knew what some of the symbols were. Not that I am reading Korean by any means, but that I recognized some of them!

More prep

So I read more of my guide book today and picked up a CD of Korean language lessons at the library and listened to the first 15 minutes twice!

So I read the first 30 pages of my guide book today and worked on the workbook for about an hour. I am really enthusiastic at this point because after doing some of the lessons I really feel like I know some Korean. I can say T.V. and door and other simple household words! I also learned about the alphabet, not that I remember all of it but I am hopeful!

Getting ready for my trip to Korea

Today I met with Helena and talked about the steps I need to take to travel to Korea in the fall. I bought 2 books from Barnes and Nobel one being a travel guild called Lonely Planet Korea and the other a Korean workbook. I then ventured to the library where I set up a blog account and checked out some books on tape for learning Korean. I also talked with my mom about travel insurance, checked online for roundtrip tickets to Korea, and e-mailed 2 professors involved with the teaching English as a Second Language Program to see if I could apply for that certification so I could teach kindergarten over there. I am very excited and a little scared but mostly excited!! Now I am off to work so I can make some money for this trip!