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- Today's Thursday morning, from South Korea.
I've been on vacation for about five or six days,
teaching right now in Yeosu, South Korea,
but on the east coast of Korea doing a bicycle trip.
Once I wake up I'll start my bicycle ride to Busan,
but first, I'll show you the hotel room from last night.
So for $40 a night, a bed,
and some free ramen and a beer.
(birds chirping) (cicada chirping)
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(bird calling)
So it's about 10:30 in the morning, and I already hit Busan.
But it's almost like 90 degrees.
So I don't really want to be riding my bike midday.
I want to go to Haeundae Beach,
but I don't have time, gotta hit the bus station
and get over to my next destination.
So stay tuned to see where that is.
(passersby chatting indistinctly)
(speaking in foreign language)
I'm in my old city, Jinhae.
Haven't been here in about a year.
I've taught English for two years and a couple months.
So one year in Jinhae, one year in Yeosu,
and I'm doing another year in Yeosu now.
So if you have any questions at all,
feel free to message me on journeyskorea,
that's my Instagram account.
But right now, I'll show you a couple pictures
from the last week of my bike trip.
(wind blowing)
Staying at my friend's place in Jinhae,
gonna keep it pretty low-key tonight,
going to meet up with one of my old co-teachers,
when I lived in Jinhae two years ago.
Yeah, so, probably give you some shots of that.
So obviously this is my vacation.
My contract is public school in the JLP, Jeollanam-do.
I think they have the best contracts.
If you wanna talk about specific things
about my contract, you can message me
So why is it the best?
Low teaching hours compared to Hagwon,
much more vacation time than Hagwon,
and I think the most vacation time
versus all other public school.
Two downsides to public school.
Number one, class size.
Usually they're a lot larger than Hagwon,
and number two, you cannot pick
your exact location or exact school.
I was actually able to pick my exact school.
If you're interested, message me.
So my normal week, pretty much nine to five
with 21 or 22 class hours.
But I am at school for about 40 hours a week.
And when you say 22 or 21 class hours,
the classes are actually 40 or 45 minutes,
but it counts as an hour,
and also a lot of cancellations happen,
and obviously exams and stuff like that,
so it's really not that much.
Just showed you a day that I was traveling,
or on my week vacation,
but I don't think your primary motivation
for teaching English in South Korea should be travel.
I think it should be other things.
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