Korean hAirlines

Along with a healthy dose of anxiety, my plane ticket fare included some covetable bonus features. Yes! You should be jealous, I received free socks! along with a toothbrush and toothpaste, new friends (not really though because they think I am a weirdo), free food and funny-looking diet coke and your choice of head, ear or tummy ache.

I left Pearson International around midnight, full of wonder and ready for take off.
I sat near the back of the 747 beside the window with two friendly Korean men who were on their way home from Toronto.
The movies were pretty random, it took me until the ending credits to figure out that we had been watching "The Last Mimzy" (in Korean of course), there was also some other trendy Korean movie with Chinese subtitles (not particularly helpful or interesting). The rest of the time they projected Korean News, Car advertisements disguised as a show, a strange sequence of snowboarding and my personal favourite- A poorly computer-animated "Animal vs. Human Winter Olympics" (where fish and reptiles earned no medals and the polar bears kicked some serious ass in Hockey).

Tried to sleep but it was difficult
I found the food on the plane much more comforting than the seats which were clausterphobia-provoking. (I know how Shizaaaam feels in his cage now).

We had the choice of Bibimbap or some sort of chicken for supper- went with the Bibimbap (which includes seaweed soup, beef and vegetables on rice with chili paste and sesame oil.) My Bibimbap meal provided entertainment for the guys I was sitting with who laughed at me because I was eating it wrong.

We took a very direct flight route: From Toronto we went North up past Moosenee, we went over the Northwest Terretories, passed Hudson's Bay and Baffin Island, we came close to the Arctic, flew over Siberia, then through China to South Korea! I was very allergic to Siberia and unforgiving snot began to pour from my nose from this point on- must be those Siberian Huskies or something... I'm actually sneezing right now just writing about it!

Customs in both nations were an absolute breeze, no problems at all!
I found my luggage very quickly- due to it's brightness. Fellow teachers laughed at me and said that they could find me in a snowstorm.

I managed my luggage surprisingly well, I also managed to make some friends, some of which I will see again at Orientation. There is quite a mix of students here teaching for different reasons, there are a few couples, a few pairs of BFF and some loners like me...I wonder how many of them will last the year. I wonder if I will... What do you think?