Hour 36

I have now been in Korea for 36 hours. It is 4:30 am, and I have not been able to sleep for the past two hours. Much has gone down in this first day and a half. Here is the rundown....

Sunday/First day in South Korea!

4:30 pm- I arrived at Incheon International Airport after a 13 hour flight that was not all that bad...until the last four hours when I suffered from cabin fever. The entertainment I enjoyed on board included Michael Jackson: This Is It, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, An Education, Snow White, and episodes of Two and Half Men and Friends, a documentary of Korean Food, and Scorecese on Scorecese...No, I did not get very much sleep.

5:30/6ish- I arrived at my apartment and was given a little tutorial on how to work things and then given a quick tour of the surrounding area. Pictures coming soon.

9:30 pm- I did some unpacking then went to meet Mr. Sandman, who was dying to see me.

Monday/First day at ICEV!

9 am- Andre, from Human Resources, took me to get a health check and open a bank account. I felt like a foreign specimen during the health check, which I suppose I truly am. Within about a half hour I was sent to 6 different nurses, physicians, x-ray technicians to be measured, pee in a cup, be pricked with a needle, have blood drawn, have probes placed upon my chest, undergo a quick oral exam, and receive a mammogram (at least that's what I think that was...). The bank was a bank. Not super exciting.

10ish- I arrived at Incheon English Village. As we pulled up to the school and started to walk towards the building, the song "I Like to MOVE IT, MOVE IT" was blaring from the school. At this moment, I knew that I belonged here.

10ish-6- My first day consisted of meeting TONS of new coworkers, shadowing a fellow teacher (whose Shakespeare class, it appears, I am taking over soon), and a little bit of orientation/slide shows with one of the assistant directors. I started the day P-U-M-P-E-D but then jet lag seemed to hit me around 2 pm or so.

6:40ish pm- After the bus ride home (ICEV provides shuttles for all the teachers at the beginning and end of the day), I went up to my apartment, recollected myself, and ran to the Home Plus across the street. Home Plus is like a hybrid of a department store and Wal-Mart. The first floor is like the clothing/accessory portion of Carson's. There are lots of clothes. I hope my American body will fit into them because I do not think that I packed enough clothing. Next floor up is groceries, which I didn't walk through. Next floor is more like Wal-Mart or Target, where they have everything you may humanly need. I was there for a plug adapter. Fun side note: To get to each level, Home Plus has not a moving sidewalk, not an escalator, but a combination of the two. I guess it is an inclined moving sidewalk. I like to refer to it as the Stairway to Heaven. Definitely a highlight thus far.

End of Home Plus adventure-10 pm- I did some organizing and then went to sleep.

2 am- I can't fall back alseep.

3 am- I mean, I really can't fall back alseep. I guess I will facebook, try to skype my Auntie Carol, Mama, or Gay-Gay, and blog.

5:05 am- Time to stop blogging and time to attempt to fall back asleep for an hour and a half before I have to wake up for work.

Goodnight and Good luck (to mySELF).