First Day in South Korea!

Wow. I'm finally here in South Korea. It is kind of surreal - it hasn't yet hit me that I am in this country half way around the world from my home town and that I won't be returning home for 12 months. I am so excited, so nervous, and so tired!

There are 400 English teachers here at Orientation. We are staying at Konkuk University in Seoul for the next week and a bit to learn teaching methods and such. It is so beautiful here! The campus is amazing - waterfalls, a lake, lots of green - I plan on taking some pictures tomorrow :).

Today I had my first Korean breakfast, and it was AMAZING. We had options of kimchi, rice, beef and potato soup, somewhat-spicy vegetables, eggs, greens...some mixture of like mushrooms and octopus...(I know, doesn't sound like breakfast, right?) and a few other dishes that I can't recall - more Western in nature though - but I just hit up the ones mentioned above - and I was a HUGE fan. The octopus was kind of intense, especially since one piece was like chewy and bony and I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be bony, but I ate most of what I had anyway. (Octopus might take a little getting used to but I am definitely up for it). And with the silverware (spoons and forks...I think there were forks? Maybe not...), there were also metal chopsticks (for recyclable reasons), which I was all over (my hand is going to cramp up withint the next few days I'm sure because I definitely don't think I am doing it right...). Basically, it was a incredible breakfast experience.

I also found out today that I will be teaching in two separate locations, which I am very excited about (and it also includes a bit of extra pay incentive), because if things are rocky at one school then I can have the other place to hold up my spirits. But since I love multitasking and having my mind on more than one thing at a time, this is a perfect situation for me. I will find out exactly where in Busan I will be teaching in a few days. I'm so excited!

Well, I am so incredibly exhausted so I will forego telling more about the past few days until I am in a more comprehensive state. :)