A couple days ago all the ETA's were assigned their schools. In two weeks I will be teaching in a small town called Gurye in the South Western province of Jeollanam (Chonnam for short). It's actually pretty difficult to find any information (in English) on the town so I had to resort to more desperate measures. According to wikipedia, it is about 33,000 people and very isolated due to the rough terrain that surrounds the town.
Gurye do tung hakyo (구 레 고등 학교) is the name of the high school (학교-hakyo means school in Korean). It is a pretty small school with a little less than four hundred students. If anyone is interested in learning more about the school, and can actually read Korean, then go to http://gurye.hs.kr for more information. I'll just have to wait until I get there for information. It will be interesting to see what life will be like in a rural area. At the very least it will be a good learning experience for everyone involved.
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hehe meanwhile i will teach you how to haggle in Korean. first. buy a calculator. don't worry about haggling over that, though you could technically. anyway, here's our example. you are the buyer; i am the seller. you want this cool t-shirt which is 25,000 won. you punch in 15,000 in the calculator, show me. i shake my head and say some stuff you don't understand. i take the calculator and type in 20,000. you shake your head or pause for x number of seconds. type in 19,000 and show me. i think about it a little, most likely agree and the shirt's yours. we both win and feel good about ourselves for a successful bargain session. don't worry about having to say a word in korean unless there are no prices on the items. "uhlmaeyo?" is "how much?" this works best probably in all the "~daemun markets" dongdaemun, namdaemun, etc.
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