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Well, that was pretty fun. Yesterday I had an 11 hour flight to Korea, where I met 3 other people (one from ontario, one from toronto, one from nova scotia) who are going out there to TESL (Teach English as a Second Language) as well so they were good company in the lines before and after the plane. From the airport, Mike (the boss) picked me up, drove me about an hour here to Gwangmyeongg, and took me out for some dinner and we had a couple of beers and he taught me some korean words and some korean drinking edicate (apparently you have to hold the bottle with your left hand and hold your arm steady with your right arm while you are pouring to someone older than you, but if they are younger, you can pretty much just chuck the bottle at them, cause hey, they're younger). Not really, I'm sure whipping beer bottles at people is an international sign of disrespect, but you catch my drift.

So I've been in Korea for a about 12 hours now (most of which has been sleep)... and I am currently in my apartment watching kids walk to school through the soccer field outside my window. Pete (and everyone else) should be interested to know that theres a couple kids out there that couldn't be over 10 that have been juggling the ball for pretty much the entire time I've been writing without it hitting the ground. I've got a real busy day today, Mike is going to pick me up for my first korean breakfast (come on eggs!) and then we're going to do a little grocery shopping and open a bank account and then (dun dun dunnn) go to the school. This being my first day of actual teaching I am a little nervous, especially because I have no idea what I'm teaching yet, I have to see the curriculum and make 6 lesson plans for today before they show up at 1. It will probably work out fine, seeing as I do kind of have a little background knowledge in the material I'm teaching, but I'm still nervous nonetheless. Well, I'm a little jet lagged and all out of words right now, so I'll see you once I've got more things to say and better pictures to show.