First impressions.

After a long but more or less uneventful flight, we finally arrived in Seoul.  We had a driver pick us up and take us to our temporary hotel accommodations, and they are so nice!  We are staying at Hotel S.R. in Seohyeon-dong, just about 20 minutes from our school.  Though it's a small room, we have a big bed, fridge, computer, jacuzzi tub and wet room (shower that just ), heated EVERYTHING (floors, bed, toilet...) with lots of free toiletries and an extremely friendly staff.  Needless to say, we are glad to get a chance to relax.

The director of the school, Andy, came by the hotel to meet us and go over our schedule.  He was very charismatic-- I think we're lucky to have such a nice director to work with!  He gave us our teaching manuals and showed us a little bit of the town around where our hotel is.

Tomorrow we will go to the school to meet and greet with the students, teachers, and parents.  Andy told us that the parents will likely be coming tomorrow just to look at us... so we are going to try hard to be presentable!  We will have 3 days of training-- just shadowing the head teachers and getting to know the kids.  Apparently I have a really great kindy class of 7-year-olds, whereas Ben got placed with the rowdy boys!  That should be interesting.  :)

We still need to go to the hospital to get our 80,000 Won physical, then we'll need to apply for our Alien Registration Card so we can open our bank account.

It's turning out to be a busy life already here in South Korea, but we are so happy to be here!

-Rebekah