First Week!

Well, the first week was a little crazy to say the least... starting off with practically no sleep and even less of an idea of what's going on at work. We're feeling much better now that it's the weekend and we're feeling fully adjusted to the 17 hour time difference. It's actually a little hard to believe that we've been here for a whole week, but a lot has happened in the last few days.

On Friday morning, we met an English girl who was just hired at our school. We met her at the subway to show her the way. She's been teaching in Korea for 2 and a half years but spent some time in Africa recently. She's a little quirky but nice enough and lives in the building next to us.

Saturday, we slept in with no alarm clock, which was WONDERFUL! and then began putting our apartment together. Later we did a little exporing in the surrounding neighborhood while in search for an ATM that would accept foreign debit cards. After finding one, we grabbed some inexpensive Korean pizza, took it home, and enjoyed it with a movie. In the elevator, we also met our new friend from Wisconsin. He and his wife live two floors above us and also teach at a nearby school along with another couple from Australia. They've been here only 3 weeks or so. It's nice to meet another couple our age that hasn't been here for very long that we can relate to, and it will be nice having some friends so close. They invited us over to their apartment this evening where me met the Australian couple, who are also very nice and live one building over.

Tomorrow we plan to do a little more exploring, and I'm sure we'll take a few pictures to share while we're at it.

This is the bridge over a river running through Bundang.

It snowed our second day here!

Our school, Grace Private School, is on the second floor of this sky-rise.

Seohyun Station... a shopping area a few subway stops from our apartment.

The door to our apartment.

A small section of Bundang, aka, the "suburbs" of Seoul.