I am 12 days into my life in Korea: still amazing! Last week classes were a little hectic as I was still pretty confused on what I was teaching and confused about how things run at the university. That confussion still remains, but I have a better handle overall on classes and the functioning of the university. One of my classes is a conversation class that meets 4 days a week; I'm pretty excited about it as there are "only" about 20 students so I can get to know them better and have more fun in the class. One class has over 70 students so that could be interesting.
My time outside of class has also been pretty fun. Justin and I hung out with President Kim and his wife again all day Sunday. He told us that the best way to learn Korean was to get a Korean girlfriend; I told him that I didn't think Jenni would like that too much. For some reason he found this pretty humorous and started making jokes about my classes shrinking and Justin's overflowing; he also went ahead and told the pastor of the second church that we visited about his hypothesis. That wasn't really a big deal except for when the pastor introduced us during the service and went ahead and told the congregation about it; this resulted in much laughter and many young ladies giggling and staring at us. It was pretty hilarious! President Kim wants Justin to marry a Korean girl and stay at Kosin so I think I'm going to spread the word that Justin is single and wants to learn Korean. :)
Besides hanging out with the president, I played basketball yesterday with some students in my dress clothes, tie and all. It was really fun, it had been a while. Justin and I also went to one of the main shopping areas last night. I had a list of 3 things to get with brown shoes being the priority; however, Koreans, in general, don't have feet that require size 12's. After asking at about 10 stores and being disaoppointed 10 times I gave up my search for the night. I'm not really sure what the solution to that problem is, hopefully I can find a 'Big and Tall' store or something like that.
Anyway, life in Korea is good. It has been a great experience so far and I anticipate it to only imporve as we explore the city more and become more comfortable in our classes.
Here are some pictures of life so far.

Deciphering the root of the main verb in the Japanese phrase.



First day of class (we didn't know if we were teaching or not that day) as we are leaving the hotel.



Shopping in Nampo-Dung