Flight & First Night

So...the flight from Chicago to Seoul was one of the best flights i'd ever been on...and it was 14 hours, mind you. If you have to fly to Korea, fly Asiana Airlines. They were amazing.

The food was delicious. I had plenty of leg room (and I'm not a short person either). The flight was smooth, except for a few pockets of turbulence. I forgot I was on a plane a couple times. It was glorious.


So far today I've met up with a few other teachers here for training. All of us are going to separate schools, which is neat/sad all at the same time. In the little time I've gotten to know them, I quite like them. The ones I've gotten to meet thus far are fun to be around. Lunch was a blast. We went to a little underground place in downtown Seoul (I think it was downtown Seoul? not to quite sure...idk my way around yet lol) For starters, I was the only girl in a group of 4 guys & they were all over 6ft tall. We were like a walking group of giants. Hilarious. Lunch was like a miso soup/meats mixture - one soup was miso & seafood, the other was miso & meat. The lady told us to mix them, so we did, happily :) It was pretty delicious, I must say. We each got a beer as well, which was happily welcomed by us. There's nothing quite like having a beer with new friends in the middle of a foreign city where you don't speak the language :)

ALSO! I found out that because I'm going to be teaching for April English, I'll be working with younger children, which is what I think I secretly wanted to do all along. So for that, I'm super excited :)

for now, that is all...the jet lag has been creeping up on me & I had to stop studying for the night because I fell asleep on my notes. whoops. I'll have to finish going over the material in the morning - tomorrow we have knowledge tests over the material they gave us to study in preparation for training. tomorrow marks the start of training - and so it begins!!