Our Korea Adventure Begins

This log is a little out of order, sorry.

Our flight over was rather normal. We had a connecting flight in Washington. I ate the biggest burrito ever at the airport! It was so big that I had to use a fork at times. But, in true champion style, I finished it. Then we were off again with Korean Air. The outfits that the flight attendants wore were really cute. Were they comfortable? I doubt it but it was ok because I was wearing sweat pants. He He. The food on the plane was Korean with the option, for the five or so non Koreans, western food. WE went for the Korean. It was good!

So, we arrive at the airport and it seems like we were at Pearson but with a whole lot of similar looking people. I was really the odd one out. At first I was worried at how people would react to seeing me. Of course there were the few odd stares but nothing out of the ordinary. I was really surprised. I think that they were staring at us because of the astronomical size of my bags. I must mention this because 80% of the bags were mine and they were filled to the rim. Ok, maybe I over packed but when you are moving somewhere there really isn’t a thing of over packing. I don’t think so! We jumped on a shuttle bus to the city and an hour and a half through rush hour and we were there. Once we got out of the bus, it was a whole different story.

We were told that we had a ten minute walk or a quick taxi ride. Well, we hailed a taxi that took us to the front of the dormitory, where we were staying for 5 days, during our orientation to our teaching program. Ok, so we get out and realize that we had to walk a good 5 minutes through the university to get to our rooms. OMG! That was a nightmare with the oversized bags. I cannot tell you but I thought Mykie was going to throw me under a bus because I brought so much luggage. After an agonizing 30 minute walk we finally get there, exhausted and sweaty.

We stayed in same sex rooms. I had a roomie from New York who complained the entire time we were there. She complained about everything. My new friends told me at the end that it was a little much. Well yeah, imagine how I felt. She talked so much about herself. She was nice but…

Mykie lucked out and got a wicked roomie from Australia who was going with his girlfriend to the same place as us. We spent a lot of time with them. Basically, everyone at the orientation spent the majority of their time with the people going to the same city as them. We have a group of 27 teachers that all went to our city, Gwangju. And now, we arrive.

This bus took us to Gwangju from Seoul. It was about 4 hours but this was the most comfortable bus I have ever been on. The seats reclined so far and I actually fell asleep. So PIMPING!!!