On monday I woke up at 6AM and Mr. Kim the manager at the school took me to the train station. When I got to Seoul I even got on the right subway... going in the wrong direction. Yea the blonde is coming out again. So I was a little bit late the first day but what can you expect really?
-----The beautiful view from the YBM building in Seoul.
For lunch I went out to eat with the other people at orientation. I actually got to know them a little bit and they are some really cool people. There's Jessica (a pretty blonde girl from Minnesota), Brendan (a really mellow, fun, nice guy who also happens to teach in Daegu with me, so I have a new friend in Daegu as well, yay), Adam (a really funny Canadian who got piss/vomit everywhere drunk on soju the first night we were there), James (a cute and really sarcastic brit who would totally get sooooo much ass if he went anywhere in the US), Jure (a big Croatian guy who is super nice and sweet but it's really funny cuz i feel like I'm 5 when i stand next to him), Sam (the funniest/sarcastic/overly verbal/wise-ass english major ever), Dominic (a really thin nice guy from Boston), Hunter (a gay fashion designer from Texas), Matt (a really quiet British guy), and Marnie (a girl from Canada who decided that people eat Guinea pigs in Cuba...ok random). So these were my orientation people.
----- Me with Sam (the funny Texan) and James (the Brit).
-----Me and Jure (the Croatian).
----- Me with Brendan, the other Daegu teacher (he made sure I didn't get lost in Seoul).
-----Brendan doing his happy dance cuz I actually told him he was right (those of you who know me, know how rare that is).The first night we all went out to eat and drink together. Mostly I drank beer. I swear I'm gonna be a beer drinker before I leave here because I tried Soju and it tastes like sweet ass water. YUCK! So beer it is. Then on the second night we all we all went out to eat again and it was actually pretty funny cuz we went to a place with no pictures and an all korean menu so we just pointet at stuff on the menu. We got something called "cajun chicken" yea it was definitely breaded fried chicken with honey mustard sauce on it on top of some salad???? I don't get it. Then after that I mostly hung out with Brendan, Jure and Adam. We went walking along this really pretty area that was this river that they had built over and then they dug it up again and made it all pretty. It was really nice. I just didn't end up going to sleep until late so...
-----Me sitting by the pretty river in Seoul.
-----They're so goofy. I think they were trying to be turtle??? (Adam, Brendan, and Jure)
-----Brendan... umm... yea. You gotta love it.
-----Me sitting by the pretty river in Seoul. -----They're so goofy. I think they were trying to be turtle??? (Adam, Brendan, and Jure) -----Brendan... umm... yea. You gotta love it.Wednesday I totally woke up late. The guy from the front desk didn't call me until 9:30 and then I realized I should have packed my stuff to check out. So I got to the class late. So we had some class presentations in the morning. And then after I got my stuff and I went to eat with everyone else at a traditional Korean place. It was pretty good. I had Bulgogi again, that seems to be my safe bet as far as food is concerned. My train went back to Daegu at 3:00. So Mr. Kim picked me up again. We went over to the school and he told me my stuff was already at the apartment so I waited for David and Nathan to show me to the apartment (since David still had some stuff there anyway).
I will now take the opportunity to say that David had painted me a grim picture of what the apartment was like. I pictured a horrible, bug infested, hell hole. I think he did it on purpose so that what I imagined would be so bad that the reality would not compare. The truth is that it was absolutely filthy, but that's the way every apartment that was formerly inhabited by a guy has been like in my experience. I immediately got to cleaning and moving around furniture (the flow of energy was horrible). I'm not like a feng shui expert or anything but if a room is set up wrong it can be really bad and it puts me in a bad mood. So I fixed it and it looks a whole lot better now. I swept everywhere, I even lifted up the mattress and the bed supports and swept under the bed which I don't think had been cleaned in years since it had food and socks and papers and all sorts of shit down there. Then when I moved the TV unit I discovered that there was a huge infestation of mold growing on the wall. It was really bad. So I got worried about how the hell I was going to explain mold in Korean but luckily in the morning Mr. Kim went by to introduce me to the landlady (who seems very nice and she kept saying how pretty I was) and when they saw it they immediately realized how bad it was. So they ripped out the wall paper on that part of the wall and tomorrow they are supposed to go in the morning to fix it. We'll see. But so far they're being very cooperative and Mr. Kim is also going to get me a new comforter and pillow. Now I need to get back to the apartment and try clean some more and do some lesson planning for tomorrow.
Random side note: So when I got to my school this morning there was a huge box waiting for me and what should it be but like 20 fruit roll ups boxes. I was sooooo excited. I've already eaten 4 but I need to make them last. Thank you Randy!!
I will now take the opportunity to say that David had painted me a grim picture of what the apartment was like. I pictured a horrible, bug infested, hell hole. I think he did it on purpose so that what I imagined would be so bad that the reality would not compare. The truth is that it was absolutely filthy, but that's the way every apartment that was formerly inhabited by a guy has been like in my experience. I immediately got to cleaning and moving around furniture (the flow of energy was horrible). I'm not like a feng shui expert or anything but if a room is set up wrong it can be really bad and it puts me in a bad mood. So I fixed it and it looks a whole lot better now. I swept everywhere, I even lifted up the mattress and the bed supports and swept under the bed which I don't think had been cleaned in years since it had food and socks and papers and all sorts of shit down there. Then when I moved the TV unit I discovered that there was a huge infestation of mold growing on the wall. It was really bad. So I got worried about how the hell I was going to explain mold in Korean but luckily in the morning Mr. Kim went by to introduce me to the landlady (who seems very nice and she kept saying how pretty I was) and when they saw it they immediately realized how bad it was. So they ripped out the wall paper on that part of the wall and tomorrow they are supposed to go in the morning to fix it. We'll see. But so far they're being very cooperative and Mr. Kim is also going to get me a new comforter and pillow. Now I need to get back to the apartment and try clean some more and do some lesson planning for tomorrow.
Random side note: So when I got to my school this morning there was a huge box waiting for me and what should it be but like 20 fruit roll ups boxes. I was sooooo excited. I've already eaten 4 but I need to make them last. Thank you Randy!!
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