Experience culture

Hello all,
It is friday and I am glad it is friday, although I am not as tired as I was last week. Last weekend I had the awesome experience to go hiking at one of the tourists attraction here in the south of South Korea. We went hiking, I can't remember the name as I am told many words in Korean and forget a couple minutes later. lol I will eventually remember more. The hike was a short hike, maybe six miles, but it was almost straight uphill. Very rocky and by the time I was less than a quarter mile aaway from the top we had to turn around and go back as we were losing daylight. The hike was very painful for me because my knees were swelling from the rocks. It was ok, but I had to go slower so that is the main reason why we didn't reaach the top. We will do it next time and I will put up pix.
Work is work, but there have been some improvements. I was frusterated with the curriculum and was afraid to talk to my employer about it. Eventually I was soooo frusterated I talked to him and he seemed to understand. I was so grateful because he tries to improve himself to serve his employees. We discussed changes that I can make that will enhance the curriculum. This was the first week that I had that freedom and it has been a little crazy. I think once I find that happy medium place I will be able to fly and enjoy the culture more. Please pray that I can come up with good lessons that will meet the students needs, also for patience. Some of my first classes are kindergarten and first grade. I like these students, except the language barrier is making it difficult to give instructions, so I seem to lose my patience more. Pray that I learn Korean quickly so that language barrier will be less. Yesterday was a perfect example, I lost my patience and it wasn't a pleasant class. I will keep working on it.
Culture is something here that is completely different than America, but close enough to Japan that I have not experienced culture shock. In fact I love the life style and enjoy the food. There is so much respect that I feel it every where, the only think I am not liking is all the staring. I know and understand that I am different from everyone and at first it was ok, but now I just want to hide. I am tired of people staring. I hope I get use to it.
Well that is it for now, next week being Christmas I am sure I may have to wait until the next Friday. Cheers all and love you Reha