Day 1

Clearly the photo's from my last post did not work. We'll try that again later...

We are in Korea!!! We had a fairly uneventful flight, besides it being so long and landed yesterday at around 4:30 local time. Which, in case you are wondering, felt like 3am to us. I only got about an hour of real sleep on the plane so by the time all our travelling was done I had been up for more than 24 hours. Very exciting! After de-boarding the plane we went and collected our luggage. The wonderful thing about that was that we didn't have to pay for the carts to haul our stuff around. They were FREE! Imagine that...

We got all our stuff and headed out to meet up with our person from the school who was going to pick us up. We found him without any difficulty and sat ourselves down to wait for the rest of the people arriving, and then head to the school. There were nine of us in total and we hopped on a bus for a couple hours to ride through Seoul. I think this was the most tiring part of the whole trip. I really just wanted to be there, and on a bus, you stop every two seconds, makes waiting that much harder. After transferring to another bus we did eventually make it to the SDA language institute. Hooray!

Needless to say we were exhausted and after making a couple phone calls and sending a few emails we were ready for bed. We are staying in a guest house on the campus at the SDA language institute. (I am not even sure if that is the official name... I'll get back to you on that) It is very nice. the beds are very firm, but after you pass out you really don't realize how hard your bed is! We don't have AC and it is fairly hot. But we do have a couple windows and a fan. So far, from what I have seen, Korea very closely resembles anywhere in the states. I think it is pretty close to Tennessee actually. But that was just first impression. I am sure that will change soon.

It is just about time to head to breakfast, just as all you folks at home are getting ready to supper. Big time difference. We have a very full schedule the next couple weeks, getting orientated to our new home for the next year. I will try to keep you all updated on whats going on.

Michelle