Welcome To KOREA!!!!!!
So, I arrived in Korea on the 21st of April after a 14 hour flight, (which by luck ended up being quite comfortable with no one in between me and another American guy) a 3 hour bus ride to my city where I was met by the director of my school and brought to my 'hotel'. I was unaware that it was a "Love Hotel"...It is actually situated in a nice part of the city, close to many shops and convenient stores and restaurants, and pretty close to my school.
Well...I crashed as soon as I got to my room, because I needed to be at school at 10am the next (friday) morning, for observation. I followed teachers around and observed their classes to get an idea of how I should or would be teaching them. I was so friggin tired that I was barely coherent. I met my other foreign teachers...with me, it makes 6, while there are also 6 Korean teachers. I ended up going to dinner with 2 of my foreign co-workers, which was really nice. The restaurant was right across, basically, from my hotel, so it was easy to just go back and do nothing. I got a massive plate of garlic fried rice and some other stuff for 4 dollars. It was really good (I would end up going there for lunch on Saturday because I was afraid to go to a restaurant by myself.) and I was lucky to have a little help ordering and whatnot because I was with friends.
That weekend I just kinda vegged. No responsibilities, nothing to do....went to the mini shop (E-mart) that is pretty much like a mix between a Walgreens and a gas station/711. It's really really "convenient"...kinda like a convenience store, I suppose :D
Monday, I walked to work by myself. Well, actually I got lost by myself. I made it there 15-20 minutes after I was supposed to be there, and actually they were going to send someone out to find me. Leave it to me. I wouldnt be ME if I didn't get lost. Yay for my horrible sense of direction. HOWEVER....during the day---it's one way..at night, OH MY GOSH...totally different. It is so lit up and crazy, it's difficult to recognize things you see everyday. I'll eventually get used to the city...I hope. :)
So, yeah...that's Daejeon for now. I've had some pretty good food. Some co-workers took me to dinner as a "welcome"..we had a bunch of different stuff...I can't even tell you the names, because I don't know..but it was delicious.
Interesting fact about Korea: There aren't garbage cans ANYWHERE...
Aww sounds fun! So are you just in the hotel temporarily before they set you up with an apartment? :) Love hotel...lol
ReplyDeletehi erin! i miss you and i probably could just talk to you on facebook...but that's boring! so yeah i think that you should come back because if there are no garbage cans that's not fun........and you got lost. but you wouldn't get lost at home...in new york. no i'm totally kidding, i hope you have a lot of fun with your non-garbage cans and koreans!!! <3 oh p.s you since you happen to get lost a lot....the bathroom's over there. if you don't want me to comment on your spiffy blog anymore just tell me! but i think it's really cool that you want to help all of thses koreans! miss you! love your amazing cousin!!!!!!! lexi <3
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