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On underwear and other things we’ve learned, thus far.

A countdown of the strangest (to our foreign eyes) things we’ve discovered about Korea:

  1. Trash bags are extremely difficult to find here in Korea. Greg and I looked up and down every aisle at Lotte Mart and Sing Sing Mart. Nothing. Finally (one whole week later) Greg got the brilliant beyond brilliant idea to ask one of the TAs at school and she was kind enough to write something in Korean on a sheet of paper. The rough translation of this message read: Read on

One week down

So, we’ve officially been in Korea for over a week now and are starting to get settled in some ways, and are far from settled in others. After spending most of the weekend unpacking, shopping, cleaning, and organizing, our apartment is definitely feeling much more like a home. All we need now are chairs (seriously, we have none of any kind), air conditioning, and real utilities (like internet). There’s a new teacher at KoC who started just today without any training whatsoever, so we’re glad we’ve got that week under our belt before jumping off the deep end at school.

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Nori Bang

So Greg and I haven’t yet recovered from jet lag and according to some of the other teachers, it will take a few weeks to completely shake off the effects of crossing the dateline. But this is our first weekend in Suji and we plan on taking full advantage of it to get our bearings.  

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A beautiful day in the neighborhood

We haven’t gotten a chance to travel very far (read: more than 3 blocks between home and work), but we’ve taken a few shots of the streets around our apartment as well as some photos of the outside of our school. We live in an area of Yongin called Suji and we’re sure it has everything we could ever want from a decent size city…if only we could read the signs.  See for yourself: Read on