Never a dull moment

Let me tell you about the adventure I had to get here- Hotel ON in Uiwang, South Korea.

First- Dad and I miss calculated how much time we need to get to the airport. So I got to the Orlando airport 45 mins before my flight left. Security was OUTRAGOUS. I thought I was screwed. But being a pilot’s kid has some perks- like using the employee line at security. So we skipped the huge line and when we walked up to the gate we started boarding. PTL- I made it. Saying goodbye to my dad was hard, and I think at that moment I had saved all my tears from all the goodbyes I had to say over the past weeks- so that was not so pretty. It was the moment where it finally hit that I would be gone for a whole year. I had a 3hr flight to Chicago to think about that.

After walking a thousand miles (with a 40lb backpack) all over the Chicago airport I got to the international terminal. I meet about 20 kids my age that were all going over to teach English before getting on the plane- and I sat next to 2 of them. Awesome. It was so fun chatting with them and we were all getting excited about teaching. The flight from Chicago to Seoul was 14hrs but it went by rather fast.

After arriving and passing through customs I was told someone would meet me and take me to a bus. After a lot of confusion I got on a bus. After the bus started pulling away I pulled out my papers to check where I had to get off. A Korean man sitting next to me asked me where I was going and he told me that I was on the WRONG BUS- awesome. So he called the director of my program and arranged for a driver to meet me at the station where the bus was going- thank you Jesus for that man- seriously- there are some VERY kind people in this country.

I meet my driver at the bus station and she took me to my hotel- which is a whole blog post in it’s self- so I’ll save that for later =) That night 2 American teachers from my school meet me at the hotel and showed me around the school and neighborhood. I’ll take pictures this weekend and post them. The city I am in is smaller- but VERY urban and very asian- it’s hard to describe- look out for pictures.

Needless to say I PASSED out once I got home. I had not really slept in about 30hrs, so sleep felt good.

This morning I went out to find my breakfast- that ended up being a doughnut-ish thing from 7-11. I found a little park and ate there. This city has mountains on all sides- and there are some awesome views. I REALLY love mountains- so I am very happy.

I was at school from 11:30- 7:30 today observing teachers. It made me really excited to teach. Everyone is really nice and the kids are so funny. I won’t start teaching for another week- I’ll just train and observe this next week.

I’m off to go pick up Jamie from the metro station- she lives about 25 mins away. I’m REALLY excited to see her. She is going to stay with me at my swanky hotel this weekend and I’m sure we will find fun things to do.