Wonju (원주)

We're in our new city of Wonju! We're taking in lots of info, in terms of our new schools, meeting important education people, and taking everything in. For starters, B is at a co-ed middle school. It's a brand new school, and for now it only has 1st grade students. Next year they will bring in 2nd grade and so on. He has another school on Wednesdays, but that's all he knows about that so far. His co-teacher lives 6 blocks from us, so he gets a ride to and from work everyday. Not a bad set up!
H ended up at an ALL boys' middle school. There are about 750 students, and one native teacher! I will only teach 1st and 2nd grade boys, and on Fridays I will go to a country school, reportedly with 90 students in the whole school. My co-teacher was an older man who is "uncomfortable" with having a female co-teacher, so I'm in the process of getting that straightened out.
Our apt is very nice. The building is 10 years old (old by Korean standards) but we're happy about it. It's in a nice location from what we've been told, and we're pretty excited about it. True to form, our hot water wasn't working the 1st day, so we took cold showers! Now that's fixed, so all we need is gas for the stove, internet, and perhaps a phone. We'll most likely get cell phones instead of house phones.
Our district coordinator Sonya lives in Wonju, and we're really lucky to have her in our city. She's quite helpful and very nice. She set up a big group dinner tonight for all the new and returning native teachers. It should be fun!
This weekend we're hoping to unpack our stuff and get things organized at our place. We're still trying to arrange for our things from Tongyeong to be sent to us. All in all we're doing well and are easing into our new adventure!Pics will follow as soon as we have internet at our place.