I made
it to Korea and the orientation is finally over! Wow, at first, those nine days
seemed to drag on for all of eternity. Maybe the jet lag made it seem like
forever, but once we crossed the midway point, the days just seemed to fly.
Every day was jam-packed with activities and lectures, something to help us get
acclimated and totally exhausted. For me, everything was such a whirlwind. I
guess I didn’t realize how much I had grown used to my daily routine back home.
Since I knew I would be stuck in my hometown for a while, the only thing I
could do to keep from going crazy was to adapt and train myself to like it.
After almost two years, I had come to accept my daily life; get up, go to work,
come home, and go to bed. I had no social life to speak of except for my one
very close (and oldest) friend in town whom I would hang with and vent. I
appreciate those times a lot.
So once
my last few weeks in town came and went, my situation really didn’t sink in. I
would be going to another country, to live and work, barely knowing the
language and not knowing a single person there. The idea was incredibly
exciting but also very scary. It had been a long time since any real changes
happened in my life, and this was about to be a major one. So here we go on the
grand adventure. I’d like to start off with some pics of the orientation site
and a fieldtrip to a village we went to midweek.
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| Orientation site in Daejeon |
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| The village |
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| You can't go into the cafeteria with shoes on. |
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| Bibimbap |
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| Dyeing scarves |
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| Workin hard for the money |
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| Traditional Hambeok |
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