Woken up by the classic humid warm weather in Daejeon ,followed-up with my morning routine I’ve developed since I’ve arrived. Who knew I would develop a routine this early?! This particular morning I was feeling homesick, exhausted from the time difference, and tired from not being able to get 8 hours of sleep a night yet. I pushed through the physical and mental exhaustion, did my skin care routine, and my make-up because we had a busy day ahead of us. There is something interesting about feeling homesick on this trip and that is; there is always someone else in this group who will support you, listen, and empathize with you because we are all in this journey together. When one person is down, the other person will be strong and be there for the other person, and that is: emotional gold. What’s beautiful about being on this study abroad trip together in South Korea? We get to experience everything together through different sets of lenses. Lately, our day has started with a strong cup of iced coffee from a local café because we will not let the jet lag win! Our group met at the Early Childhood Education building at 10am to prepare for one hour before we went on stage (metaphorically) with the kids at the preschool. Some groups got to practice more with the Korean students, and some couldn’t because of schedule conflicts; All in all, we all prepared to the best of our ability to deliver the SEL lesson to the Korean preschool children. Half of our study abroad group went to a local preschool that involved walking in 90-degree weather for 15-minutes and the other half went next door to the preschool attached to the Early Childhood Education building. Walking into the room for the first time with those little kids waiting for the San Francisco State student teachers and Korean student teachers was very exciting, but also nerve-wrecking because we just wanted to do our very best and make a good impression at Woosong University. We taught the lesson in 45-minutes which included English and Korean translation and the lessons that were taught today were about (1) Calming your emotions and (2) Recognizing Facial expressions/ body language and learning the correlation between the two. Afterwards, we all met back at the center to debrief on how teaching the kids went and how we can improve for the future. We attended an insightful and intellectual lecture presented by Dr. Ronquillo who was warm, delightful, and illuminating. Our educational day ended around 4:30pm and a lot of the students migrated to get something to eat for dinner because we were hungry! My group and I discovered an enchanting and charming modern Thai restaurant hidden under a café at Woosong University. I’m vegan and it has been somewhat hard to find something to eat, so when we found this place: I was intrigued! The waiter told the chef at the restaurant I was vegan, and the chef came over to our table to personally tell me he will make a new sauce from scratch for the pad Thai I ordered to make it vegan friendly. The chef found out we were San Francisco State students, we all exchanged Instagram handles, and he told me to message him before I come to the restaurant so that he can prepare me a vegan Thai meal from scratch; I did a little happy dance! The day ended as usual which included night showers, skin care, and hygiene routines. Well for me, it ended with this blog (: -Joanna
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