Today is Sunday, February 13th at about 5pm. My partner Jim and I are sitting in a PC bang (or public computer room) in Suji-gu, South Korea as I write this. We arrived on February 9th at about 6:00am. The flight was 14 hours long and we were so tired when we arrived. Our first job was to find the driver who was picking us up and head directly to the school we are going to teach for. The school is called Dayelin Langcon English. We successfully found our driver and we were there before everyone else. The school's driver, Mr. Kim, walked us over to a place called Paris Baguette (delicious!!) for breakfast. We sat and waited for the foriegn teachers to arrive but met the Korean teachers while we waited. Everyone is so fabulous! The foreign teachers are from Canada, the UK, Ireland, and MN! We were suprised to meet a fellow teacher from Rochester, but I guess there are tons of teachers from MN in Korea. Who knew.
We arrived earlier than most new teachers because our first school's contract fell through so more new teachers will arrive shortly. We'll also get a new apartment once two current teachers leave. We don't begin teaching until March 2nd. In the mean time we'll explore Korea and observe classes at the school. We are also here early so we can get our alien registration card. We won't have internet in our apartments and we won't have a phone until then. So in the meantime, it's PC bang for us!We have already traveled around Suji, where we live, and to Itaewon and Seoul. All of these places are great! We stopped at Myeondong in Seoul but only to window shop (no paycheck yet!). Myeondong is a huge shopping area like an outdoor mall. The street food there smelled so good. This was also our opportunity to see the subway, although we haven't ridden on it yet. We took the bus everywhere so far which is cheap and easy to use. There's a lot of walking involved here too, but it's so good for us! We've eaten galbi (grill-it-yourself) and kimchi and lots of other stuff. The food is amazing!
More later!
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| Incheon Airport |
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Incheon Airport |
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| Our apt. window |
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| Jim and Dennis waiting for the 5500 bus to Itaewon |
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| Street food in Myeondong market |
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| Myeondong market |
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| Seoul Station |
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| Kristen, me and Jim at Seoul Station |
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| Jim, me and Dennis at Seoul Station |
I love the fruit cakes at Paris Baguette! This makes me wanna come teach too when I'm done with school! It's so true about the walking, Koreans walk a lot.
ReplyDeleteYes they do walk a lot! My legs are still getting used to it :)
ReplyDeleteFantastic idea on the blog! Miss you guys already!
ReplyDeleteHmmm. My profile name is "e" apparently. This is Helgi ;-)
ReplyDeleteHey Jennifer :)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear that everything is going so well. Hopefully I'll see you soon.
this is so awesome and exciting! anxious to read more and more! hope all is well <3
ReplyDelete@e/Helgi - we miss you too!
ReplyDelete@Mala - I hope to see you soon too! It's great out here.
@Kari - Thanks Kari! I hope all is well with you too.
Jennie...how was your Valentine's Day? ;)
ReplyDeleteHi Mom! We didn't do anything romantic on Valentines Day, but neither of us cared to. We did go to a nore bang (karaoke) to sing with two other couples (see pictures above). Plus we don't have any money yet due to the delay/change in schools. Oh well!
ReplyDeleteI mean - see pics in the other post "School Days".
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