South Korea here I am

Trip Start Aug 13, 2005
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Trip End Jan 03, 2006


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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

In December of 2005 I was chatting on the phone to an old friend and mentioned that perhaps my next overseas experience would be in Korea, who would have thought that 19 months later I would board a plane and actually head to Korea!  I left my family's house in Peterborough at 3:30a.m. the morning of July 13 and a car ride, two plane trips (Toronto to San Fransisco and San Fran to Incheon, Korea), and a bus later I arrived at 9:30p.m. on Saturday July 14 in Daejeon, South Korea. 
I met several other ESL teachers on the plane and buses along the way who are now stationed throughout Korea.
The entire plane ride and weeks leading up to the trip, I kept asking myself "why am I doing this"?  I've never been particularily interested in Asian culture.  I mean, Ghana made sense, I was studing development issues and Ghana is a developing country, but Korea??  The best answer that I could derive is "where else will they pay for me to fly across the world, rent an apartment for me, and give me a full-time salary".  So here I am.
The past two weeks have been difficult. I feel like I should tell everyone that I'm having an amazing time, and that I'm loving it here, but to be honest, I'm bored out of my mind! Perhaps I'll meet some other English speakers soon, school will get busy and I'll start a little life here.  For now...I'll keep harassing Chris to spend every waking non-work moment talking to me via web cam. 
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