Building Walls: feels like home already~

It's amazing how fast one gets used to things. It's day 4 and already I feel familiar with the schedule. Yesterday, I even bought a 5,000won watch to keep myself in check for promptness. Some things that I've gotten used to:

1. Sleeping on hard tile floors.

2. Eating rice 3x a day.

3. Manuevering around zooming motorcycles and the occasional cars that travel in the same space as pedestrians.(all legal in korea)

So far the kids seem to be very open to us being here. Not a lot of resistance... perhaps from the older boys but we don't get to interact with them much since they live in a different building than where we are housed. They love to be hugged and want to have your full attention. If you turn your head to listen to another kid, they will immediately call you back and with more urgency in their voice, ask you to watch them/read to them/ etc. Basically they seem to be like any children in a stable home. There have, however, been moments when I am taken aback by somethings that don't seem typical for children their age.

For one, the kids are brutally honest.

Did you clean your room? No.

Who told you to eat that? She did (pointing to the culprit).

Why didn't you come straight from school? I met my friend.

I mean usually kids will try to get away with things and fib a little. But these kids, they look at you and tell you what they did wrong, even the smallest things, things that the teacher would have no idea. But it makes sense because whether the teachers are there or not, they are under constant surveillance from the other kids. If you don't tell with your own lips then they will. So why get in trouble twice, one for doing wrong and another for not telling? So the kids here are all very honest, if you can put it that way.