Welcome to Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, S.Korea!

Initially I did not want to begin a blog being that I don't want to spend a good portion of my trip sitting on my computer....BUT blogging is the easiest way to answer every one's questions. So here we go!!!

I arrived in South Korea (please do not ask me if I'm in North Korea. Americans CANNOT go into N.Korea.) Saturday April 17th. It was a short 1 hour car ride from Incheon International Airport to Ansan where I am teaching. Ansan is in the Gyeonggi-do province and roughly about an hour from Seoul. The school, SLP, arranged for me and my bestie, Stephanie, to be picked up from the airport and taken to our places. Little did we know that after sitting on a 12 hour flight, going through immigration, & customs...we would still have to be dragged around for quite some time. This is a quick run down of our first couple of hours in Korea:

Airport to the school, SLP, to pick up our supervisor. Then to our individual apartments. After seeing the apartments and Mr. Kim realized we were missing some essentials. He then took us shopping & let me tell you, this man's driving is ridiculous!! It wasn't really that he drove "crazy", but we went in circles and circles, up some small streets, under bridges, then to simply bust a u-turn to end up a block from our where we started. I seriously had thought that we had left the city....but I was 5 minutes from my place. haha. I had to chuckle to myself for a second. After, we were dropped off at the school once again and had dinner with the Supervisor Luke. No we did not have Korean food- we had Italian. Very delicious by the way. Thin crusted garlic and mushroom pizza with garlic bread. Once we finished dinner, we walked back to our places. I'm very glad that I am a short 5 minutes from the school. It will be a life saver when I start getting off close to 9 pm and still have to walk my behind home. I was expecting myself to be tired, exhausted, something...but no. I was wide awake! Thank you jet lag!!! So I was unpacked and semi-settled by 10pm on my first day.

This is where I live...Reminds me like something from Ikea. Definitely not what I was picturing in my head.