My first days in Korea

(This was written and posted on Facebook on December 12th but I thought I would post it on here as I know lots of people don't have Facebook)

Hi Everybody!

I hope your all doing fantastic!! I miss you all already! I'm doing really good, I arrived last Sunday night in Seoul, South Korea and then took a bus to Gwangju. It's about 4hrs south of Seoul. The school director picked me up at the bus station and took me to my apartment. It's super cute! It's actually pretty big considering what people had told me....The the next morning she picked me up and brought me to school...after a really short tour of the school I was put into one of the kindergarten rooms and was told to sing songs and make them talk english....let's just say that in about 5 minutes I was singing 'I'm a little tea pot' yup...picture me in front of 6 or 7 Korean kids singing the only song that came to my head...they thought it was entertaining....So now I've finished my first week and everything is really good (I'm hoping the novelty doesn't wear off).

Everybody has been super nice to me, I didn't have to go to the grocery store until about the 4th day because people kept giving me food (weird stuff like pickled cabbage called Kimchie and black beans) I also got a lesson on how to make rice a couple nights ago! It's so easy because everybody has rice cookers (even I do in my apartment). At the grocery store I had three little girls following me around trying to ask me questions in english...they actually guessed that I was from Canada. As well last week I went on a field trip to a theatre play. For those of you who know me well know how much I love the movie Little Orphan Annie, well it took me the entire play to figure out that the show was the Korean version of the movie!!! I died laughing in my head once I figured it out.

I had my first night out in Korea on Friday. The downtown is pretty funny! They have lights and writing everywhere...and you can pretty much get any kind of deep fried food on the street that you would want! (the sweet potato is amazing) I went out to this foreigners bar where most of the people spoke english...

So, so far so good! I think that I will be able to save lots of money here and see some cool stuff!I have an address and a phone number for those of you who want to call or write...it takes about a month for me to get something though....(wink, wink, nudge, nudge) Send me a message and I'll send it your way!
Love all of you! Keep smiling!!!Angie (big hugs!) PS. I got served ocotpus soup for lunch today!!!!!! (yup you guessed it I didn't eat it!)