TaLK Orientation Classes, etc,.

The weekend has finally arrived.  The week has turned from a bunch of activities into classes and I mean long days of classes.  We start at 8:40am and go all the way until dinner or if there is a mandatory meeting afterwards, until 8:30pm.  The past couple of days of classes ranged from Korean culture to learning different activities to do with our elementary school classes.  Most have been enjoyable, with interesting enthusiastic speakers, but there was one that I almost was sleeping through.  The speaker titled it task based learning, but his task of getting his point across was lacking.

Also, another notable thing I did a few days ago was to jam out with a few fellow TaLK scholars after classes.  There is a girl in my group who said she could sing, so we decided to find the piano room to jam.  To our surprise there was already a few people down there playing guitar.  We joined and started to work on a few songs.  To make a long story short, another singer, a few guitarists, and a piano player joined in.  We ended up jamming over a few chords, improvising lyrics and doing some solos.  The talent in the room was really amazing and we gelled really well with each other.  There is a talent show coming up at the end of orientation and we might perform there.  I'll try to record our next session.

Today we just have a medical check, then we are free to do what we want.  I'm thinking about traveling to Seoul with a few friends and to meet up with a few people already in Seoul.  Many pictures to follow.