Anyong ha sae yo

I guess I should infrom that the subject line simply means hello, I don't know why they coulnd't just say 'hello', but I guess i'm not going to be able to change the culture in just one year so I might as well learn it:)Well so far everything has been absolutely wonderful. The flight from San Fran was very nice. For thirteen hours the stewardesses were up and down the aisles, the longest break they took was maybe 10 minutes, I don't know how they did it. The back of the seats in front of us had tv screens with a controller, so there was about fify movies to choose from, music, tv shows, there was a learn a language thing so I learned three words and can count to 20, that was my big victory:)The hotel they have us in is very sufficient. Has a washer, but no dryer which is the custom from what i've been told. I have a roomate as I said who's a nice guy, we get on pretty well so thats nice, but can't wait to get to Pohang and get all set up. Orientation starts today, so we'll see how the first day goes.The highlight so far has been meeting, which is a cliche from people travelling overseas, but its just the way it is. Went yesterday morning to Ed Sloans hotel, and then we walked to the house where meeting is. It was in an apartment place that was not the nicest, but the woman of the place is awesome, she translated for Ed and I that morning and through gospel meeting with whisper mikes. It was quite overwhelming to think of the whole situation about being in Seoul, South Korea, in sunday morning meeting, and everythings the same, except that we took our shoes off before meeting:) It was great.I've had only one scare so far. Last night I took the subway from Ed's hotel to where my hotel is, which went fine. The subway's are pretty easy, but its about a five minute walk from the subway entrance to the hotel, and you guessed it, i should have got a compass. Seoul looks completely different from night to day. During the day its decently quiet, but after night the lights get turned on. I've never seen so many flourescent signs in my life. So of course I got hopelessly turned around. I ended up wandering around for about 2 and a half hours. It should'nt have been so hard because are hotel gave us cards that have our hotel, address, and phone number in Korean and english so we can give that to Taxi drivers, but that was at home so all i had was the key to the room, and noone could read it, or had heard of the place, so thankfully after the time mentioned I ran into an information place that was able to give me the number and I got home safe, but itwas quite frustrating. The one thing though is that I never felt in danger, or scared of anything. Probably because its just hard to be scared of a korean:)
Well this is the first of many I suppose

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