Hi Korea, I'm Here!

Hi everyone!! I'm finally here :) So to give a detailed account of my flight here and what I've been doing for the past few days!!

I took a flight on Korean Air from ATL -> Seoul ICN airport. The flight was about 15 hours and was pretty good! I've been a little stressed recently and when I'm stressed multiple things happen including loss of appetite XD Not that I don't get hungry at all, just I don't get hungry often and can't eat much. So I finished lunch for the sake of finishing it but didn't finish dinner. I noticed that Koreans eat something like pickles too.. I dislike them :[ there were quite a few in my meal lol.. The lunch overall was good but the dinner was a choice between Salmon pasta and Chicken pasta. I went for the Chicken pasta but just like everywhere else in Asia, pasta sucks and it ain't pasta! I got maybe 3 hours of sleep before the flight.. and 3 hours of sleep during the flight. I don't like missing the food even if I'm full so I like staying up :p I ended up watching 4 movies - Sex in the City, 10 Items or Less, My Mighty Princess (funny Korean movie!), umm there's another one but I can't remember what it was that I watched....



After arriving at the airport it took about an hour and a half to get through immigration, get baggage, and exchange money. Ashley-- make sure you exchange money at the Korean bank all the way at the end (near baggage claim 1) right before you exit the doors to the general public area. There Mr. Kim picked me up (they put up signs in 2 places in case you don't see one of them :p). He only works at the airport so him and his coworker took me to the bus I needed. I got on the Jamsil bus heading for Sheraton Hotel. His coworker was cool-- his English was better AND he was fluent in Chinese!! Anyway, I hopped on the bus and when it got to Sheraton, the
bus driver kindly notified me :) An English teacher from my school and the school manager were there waiting to pick me up :D Teacher Jang (the English teacher) is super nice and very fluent in English. It's like that type that sounds as if she came to America for exchange at some point-- less of an accent. The school manager's English isn't as good but is still ok with hand motions XD He drove us to my apartment afterwards and carried my heavy 50 lb bags up 5 flights of stairs to my apartment!! Crazy man..




















My apartment is absolutely gigantic. After the first night, I asked them whether they could find something smaller closer to the school but after they cleaned out the previous guy's belongings and I cleaned up the place after they left, it seems alright! It's located in the Guri market area right by the metro so it's a very convenient location. The school is about a 5 min bus ride from there. I have a large living room, 2 bedrooms, and 1 bedroom/closet. It also has a bathroom (no sink??), kitchen, and balcony/laundry area. They spent a good portion of yesterday cleaning it out.. today we're going to go buy the things I still need.. like sheets that fit the bed, a pillow, cleaning stuff, etc.

Yesterday I also got to meet the principal and a few other teachers. We went out to eat lunch with the principal and the teacher manager. The restaurant was a really nice Korean restaurant situated on a hill. Omg the appetizers were enough to fill me!! The appetizers filled the entire table.. after giving us maybe 10 mins to eat that, they came out with another table full of food >< I'll just be observing them teach all next week. Apparently I have 700 students.. They have 1500 students here and I'll be teaching grades 4-6. Craziness!! Ok I need to go buy stuff, I'll post the rest tomorrow!