Greetings from the FUTUREEEE (Cue X-Files music?)
After two Flights, 15 hours, and five, FFFFFIVE full-length movies (disney and sandra bullock) here I am in SOUTH KOREA! Its noon back home and 3:00am here, and I can’t sleep because at this time I would be watching Randy’s hilarious commentary on Say Yes to the Dress. I guess I’m also Jetlagged as shit.
And so, for whenever I find Internet I will have my very first blog post ready to go! Written with care in a Seoul hotel room (aka love motel where frisky people get frisky) at 3:00am. I’ve never been on such a huge plane in my entire life. There were first class seats in PODS. I don’t know what a girls gotta do to get into one of them pods but I think it would be totally worth it just to feel like a Sex and the City girl. We flew over Siberia and Northern Canada and I took all these pictures out the window. I felt awkward because literally everyone’s window was closed and here I am going paparazzi watching the fricking mountains covered in snow. The lady beside me didn’t mind, she was super nice (mother teresa nice for dealing with me!) and gave me her phone number at the end of the flight if I ever needed anything. We had an empty seat between us so my area looked just like my room at home. ESSSPLOSION!
I’ve already met lots of people at the airport, everyone is really wicked and we’ve all helped each other out with each others bags and customs and where to go. God knows I wouldn’t have been able to lift my heavy ass bags off the merry-go-round by myself. I also got fingerprinted and a photo taken, i don't know where that photo is going but it is certainly naaat a glamour shot.
Once I landed I waited for one of my co-teachers on a later flight to arrive. As I was just standing there in my dopey hat and heavily baby-powdered hair an old (I mean old) guy from Texas tried to talk to me and then kissed my hand goodbye. Even he was wicked helpful albeit slightly creepy. This airport had a big play going on, and lanterns and trees covered in Christmas lights and a KFC and MCDONALLLLLDS! Finally I was introduced to my awesome co-teacher, Jasmine and within the first 5 minutes it was teamwork trying to use the Korean ATM. Then we were in a taxi en route to the hotel (again, love motel for friskies) we’re staying at until Tuesday, when the teachers we’re taking over for fly back home.
So we’re driven through what looks like car wash flaps but really we’re just at a hotel. Hotel in North America is a little different than this hotel. There’s space patterned carpet and colour changing lights on the hallway ceiling, and it kind of reminds me of residence. It legit looks like they took the carpet from laser quest and put it on the ceiling. I feel very safe! J There’s also the biggest flat screen I’ve ever seen for the smallest room I've ever seen. There’s also no shower door! Its so cool, all the water just drains in the middle and the shower head is just attached to a wall with all these intense blasting jets running down the middle. I was like, "what the hell do I do with this knob" and all of a sudden BAM blasting jets.
After our director made sure we had everything and the teachers we’re replacing gave us a welcome bag with magazines and guides and food (woohoo!) it was explore time.
At first it felt like Toronto, just with different signs, but then you realize there’s these little alleyways with a whole other world in them. People selling all sorts of stuff in this narrow alley market with all these fruits and vegetables and fish I had only seen on Chopped. It was fricking so cool! We also got lost for our first time but people have been so nice here, they took out their phones and walked us in the right way, even if they don’t know English its not all that hard to communicate at all. Plus getting lost when you’re with someone is fun, getting lost by yourself is a little more petrifying.
There is a 4 floor Wal-Mart style store across the street from the hotel. It only sells electronics and you get escorted up the elevators from boys wearing sashes. I will be buying a straightener ASAP or else I will start looking like Albert Einstein.
Thats all for now but I'll have lots to say later! :)
Miss you all so much!
<3mawii
