Other Foreign Teachers Made the Experience

I had never taught before and had a hard my first month at Avalon. Luckily the campus I worked at (Pyeongchon) was a big one with about 15 other foreign teachers. It was a tight community that had a lot of fun together. A lot of the Korean teachers were fun too. The Avalon facilities were nearly new and pretty well maintained (for 5th grade classrooms at least). I had my own desk and my own computer to use to prep for my lessons, or keep in touch with home while at work. The apartment Avalon provided was very close to work (about a ten minute walk from work). There were also some other teachers in my building which made for a fun, dorm-like atmosphere. My only complaints about Avalon were with the campus manager and the head teachers. There was poor communication and oftentimes we would be asked to do something at the last minute which didn't have much explanation. It was also obviously a commercial operation and sometimes the bottom line came before the students. Financially I was able to save up a lot of money which I used to travel with for months afterwards. Try not and spend your paycheck on going out the first couple months, its easy to do.