On the Ground, Safe and Sound

Annyong Haseyo !!!

It's been a long time coming, but we finally have managed some time to update our loyal friends and family in Canada! Needless to say, its been a long week and we are too exhausted to attempt a clever, or even structured way to start this blog, so let's just dive in!!

We arrived at the Seoul airport at about 3:30am.  Flight was pretty good.  Really cool "free stuff" like slippers and a tooth brush.  The in-flight entertainment was sweet too; we got to catch up on some missed movies from home like The King's Speech, Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Never Let Me Go. Also, the remote for the TV flipped over and turned into a video game controller and Joe played Tetris! But anyways, enough about flight... so 3:30am at airport, exhausted.  We had someone meet us which was nice because we did not have to worry about the next step.  So this man (we don't know who he was really, we assume the school hired him) got us our bus tickets and waited for us to get on our bus. Bus left at 6:00am so... more waiting!! Our directer met us at the bus stop and drove us to our apartment with all our luggage so that helped out HUGE.  Apartment is very nice.  It is of course small, but for Korean standards, and compared to other Korean apartments we have seen, its safe to say we lucked out in that department.  Only downside was the lack of furniture, which we are still waiting to get.  So far we have one cabinet, one small table with shelves, and one bed.  We will post photos of the apartment soon, which will give a much better visual than our words. After a short cat nap Sunday during the day, our director picked us up at 5 for dinner and a little run down of things at the school.  She also took us on the bus to show us all the stops we needed, etc.  We were so glad to get some time at the school to get schedules and more preparation for teaching since we started the NEXT DAY.

So next we'll move on to teaching, because the arrival day is somewhat of a blur with jet lag, new sounds, new sights, and way too much squiggly lines to "read" on all of the buildings.

Cheers,

Nicole