We are here!

Well ...I guess I can say that it finally feels real. We are actually here. After a very long flight (which, I'm not going to lie - I actually enjoyed for the most part ...I will never argue with being 'forced' to watch 6 back to back movies and an episode of Friends ...Heaven, thanks to Bob & Nancy for my neck rest!) we were picked up from the airport by our recruiter. He was an hour and a half late, but we won't dwell on that.

As you will notice on my map (located on the right side of screen with a handly little star that says 'We Are Here' that I put in purely for your viewing enjoyment) we are in Incheon and that is where thier major airport is, very convenient:) Except that Incheon is huge - over 3 million people! And our little 'suberb' of Incheon, called Namdong (not pronounced 'dong' as Wayne keeps reminding me, but 'd-own') took about an hour to drive to with traffic, but I am assured that it's not typically that bad for those that are coming to visit! I promise to pick you up at the airport and we will have figured out how things work by then.

We were taken directly to the school to meet the director who seems really, really nice and to see where we will be teaching! Got me pretty excited, because it's super, super cute (will post pics once we get the internet in our apartment) and has a library and a bunch of little mini classrooms ...and our very own desks!

Then they took us to our apartment, which is HUGE ...if by huge you mean ridiculously small, with no closets and no dressers at this point. But hey, I can deal with that, it's not like I'm an organized person who likes to unpack the second I get there and make myself at home:) Nope, the new me loves living with things everywhere and is super relaxed about having nothing at this point! Haha ...Wayne wishes.

But I will say this - I honestly have no idea how I brought so much stuff. I think it has something to do with the fact that I kinda packed over the course of a month and the longer I waited the more stuff I just kinda ended up 'throwing' in ...and I somewhat forgot about what was already in there. Yah, you may or may not be shocked that I ended up bringing - 10 pairs of shoes. Not at all sure how that happened.

But if Wayne can bring his hockey equipment, I can bring the things that make me happy ...shoes:)

Hmmm, where was I? Oh yes, after the tour of our apartment, which took all of about 30 seconds, our director took us out for dinner. Amazing food. We had beef on a little grill in the middle of our table, that we cooked ...loved it so much that Wayne & I went out and had it again ourselves last night. As long as I do my best to avoid the spicey, I think I can definitely survive, so far I have loved everything that I have eaten and avoided everything that scared me. Like the little fishheads that I was telling Andrew about that they served us at lunch yesterday as an add on ...yum. They had little eyes and everything!

And that concluded our first night - we were both asleep by 10pm, after having been up for 30 hours. And I honestly thought that we completely avoided jet lag,until yesterday afternoon when we decided to take a little nap (not really even tired, just kinda relaxing) and ended up waking up 4 1/2 hours later! Oops. Guess our bodies were slightly confused.

Anyways, we don't start teaching until Thursday so we are using our time to explore, doing a lot of walking and just enjoying the experience and each other and having fun. We don't have internet yet at our apartment, but as soon as we do - I will give everyone a visual 'tour' of our apartment and our town!

Until then, xoxo

ps. Did I mention that we haven't been able to unpack yet?