Sunday, March 14, 2010

Exhaustion, Excitement and a lot of Craziness

Without a doubt the craziest 72 hours of my life. I am wipppeedd. Fist thing first. Let me tell you how my director wanted to convert my religion. I think her main objective was to wear me down initially so that I would bend to her Christian ways. Yesterday- being the day I finally arrived I was picked up by my director and one of her employees i.e, my co-worker Carrie or Cathy, still not sure. My director, Ian (pronounced Yawn) speaks no English and I speak no Korean. Set stage for disaster. As we were driving in from the airport I was informed that I had no apartment and no furniture but both would be taken care of. I got to pick between two apartments which were exactly the same- no exaggeration but one was closer than the other so I did what my director should have done and picked the closest one. After that was sorted we went to buy apartment stuffs. I you'll see, everything I own in the apartment was purchased yesterday besides the content of my luggage. I did this on 4 hours of sleep completely jett-lagged. SO after all was said and done and my director was saying her goodbye to me - in really, really broken English she asked if I would like to go to mass on Sunday which was this morning and I agreed thinking I was being polite and it would be a 40 minute ordeal. Well, I was wrong. Four hours later I walked out enduring a Korean attempt at converting me, a English service with an overly enthusiastic christian rock band and a totally awkward goodbye. I vow to spend th rest of my Sundays hungover!
The rest of my day I spent in the mall. I got a new camera- amazing 120 bucks. Wall socket converter, some cable and some apples. When I got back I had dinner and a movie with some new friends and I am just getting back now. Here is a list of my first impression of Korea

poison mushrooms- story to come
head of tree- story to come
no differentiation between breakfast, lunch and dinner
U-turns everywhere
Mountains
need to find westerners
socks with open toed stilettos
road lanes are only a suggestion
red lights are only a suggestion
no such thing as a pedestrian
And there is so much more to tell but that is all I can muster up right now. It is 10 3opm local time and I am effing tired. Shit. Tomorrow will be my first work day so I can definitely let you all know how that goes!

Below I have included my thoughts from when I was on my flight!
PLH

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