Mission.... Possible?

I have successfully completed my first day of teaching in Korea. However, the day did not start off smooth. Walked in this morning and sat down at my computer to finish up last minute lesson planning before my classes, pushed the power button and .... nothing. As in, nothing. The computer wouldn't turn on. At all. So after the teacher next to me trying the power button as well, to no avail, I waited patiently for Mr. Lee to come in and then told him. (Poor Mr. Lee...) He came over and messed with all the wires, double checked that everything was plugged in and the rest of it. Still nothing. So he tells me that he can't fix it, and it needs to be repaired. So luckily I saved everything on my USB Friday afternoon, just had a feeling it'd be a good idea... So I got on another teacher's computer and checked to make sure I had everything ready for my first two teacher classes and my first student class which were all back to back. Spent the rest of the time making notes on stuff I had printed out. Then headed up to my first teacher class. It went well. I definitely need to have more stuff prepared, which I knew I would, but figured the first week I could just kind of wing it :/ It went okay. Then had my second teacher class, which is lower, and that went well for the first 10 minutes until the laptop I was using for my presentation died. Yeah.... I wasn't even near it. I was writing words on the board on the other side of the room and then I turned around and it was just off. So I checked the cords, the power was plugged in, everything was still connected, nothing had changed except the computer just turned off and quit working...retarded. So one of the teachers in the class went out and came back with Mr. Lee (POOR MR. LEE) - my school is never going to let me touch computers again :/ - so he checks all the cords, etc, and eventually discovers that the outlet that the power cord is plugged into has apparently died... :/ so he changes it and the computer powers right up. I killed an outlet..... I was just glad I didn't kill another computer.... so we finished class, the rest went quite well. Oeja told me after that all the teachers really enjoyed the class and everyone was very impressed. Surprise to me, I felt like a blubbering idiot most of the time. So then I had my first student class with Mr. Ha, it was 1-1 (1st grade 1st class, so 10th grade, 1st class). It went really well. Just had one student that thought she was too cool for school but that'll be taken care of next week if it continues. The class was a little slow to warm up, but that was expected and after a little persuasion they did really well. Especially when I made a little competition. :D So overall really good classes. Then we had lunch, always an adventure. Had some sort of carmalized seafood shell medley today... not really sure because I didn't eat it... :/
So then I had 2 hours of planning during which the computer repair guy came, brought a brand new power supply with him - I assume they told him what the computer was doing, or wasn't doing rather.... So he plugged it in, nothing, messed with it a bit, nothing, took out some circuit boards, tried a few other things, everything resulting in nothing... So then he unplugs everything, picks up the whole tower, says some stuff in Korean to Mr. Lee and walks out the door.... Mr. Lee tells me that the guy couldn't fix it here and the computer needs to be repaired... :/ But really, they're never gonna let me touch a computer again. So hopefully the guy brings it back working tomorrow. It's really hard to plan and find/steal materials from waygook without a computer and internet. I was contemplating bringing my laptop tomorrow but it won't work with their internet so I'll just buy a notebook on the way to school tomorrow, I need to buy one for lesson planning anyway, and do it by hand.
So my last lesson of the day was English teachers' class. Which went really well. I think mostly we'll just have conversations about random stuff, maybe focused around a topic for day, and that will be our 50 minute class. Because these are people who studied English for 9 years in regular school, plus 4 more intense years in a University. I can teach them nothing except fluency and what we actually say. They've got me on the grammar front and they know all about textbook English, now it's just making it flow. So yeah. That went well. Then I walked home. Decided I was going to take a walk down to the stadium to walk the track for a bit, and then headed back home. Got a little lost on the way home but found my way which is good. They actually recommend doing it the first week just to explore and such but I think I'll just do it in small bits like I did tonight. Easier to actually get a map in my head that way. Anyway, it's almost midnight so off to bed for me. Early morning to review lesson plans before school and figure out what the heck I'm doing in my two teacher classes tomorrow!! Ahh!
Night!
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PS - I will get my camera tomorrow so ready yourselves for a plethora of photos!! :] (Though I make no promises because I don't know how my day will go tomorrow. Hopefully as well as or better than today!)