We were met at the airport by the director of the board of Education for Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. From the airport we took a bus to the Suwon board office where we waited for our name to be called. I met my co-teacher and she is so beautiful! Her name is Seung-Hyun. We went to Yonmu middle school where I met the teaching staff. There is school on Saturdays sometimes!
I am lucky to be living with a Korean family for the next couple of weeks until my apartment is ready. Their apartment is big and very nice, it is in a good neighbourhood and is only a 15 minute walk to the school I will be teaching at.
I wonder what the other teachers are doing right now in their own apartments- I imagine them frantically ironing out their clothes, trying out their wet rooms, missing their family.
The two meals I've eaten since I've been in Suwon have been fabulous, I had lunch with my teaching partener at a restaurant and enjoyed dinner with my host familly's sister. Both meals consisted of bean & onion soup (tasting similar to miso soup), sardines, cucumbers, beans, a whole bunch more vegetables, rice and seaweed- Korean food is very healthy food with an incredible variety at every meal! I just feel bad for whoever has to do the dishes.
Need a reason to celebrate? My ankles are no longer swollen.
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I think I love that bathroom/janitor closet sign(wha, can't it be both?)! Glad to see you're safe and happy and given a Korean person to smoothen stuff out- just keep feeding them seaweed and sardines and they'll live!
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