People In Every Direction-No Words Exchanged

I'm in South Korea!!! The flight was horrible, but getting to my current location has been so easy!

On my flight to Tokyo, I sat by a man about my dad's age named Mike. Mike gave me the most strange compliment I have ever received. About 7 hours into our flight, he turned to me like he had something serious to say but said, "you have one the best BLADDERS in the world". haha...I replied with "thank you?". If you know me well, you know I would muster up something more ridiculous to reciprocate latter on. Well it happened, I had a Samantha moment. As we were descending in to Tokyo, I looked out the window and yelped "Ew! there's snow!" Mike, said no way, I highly doubt there is snow...as I looked harder I said "Yeah, you're right, what looked like snow is definitely waves crashing into the shore!" idiot

When I arrived in Korea, a man picked me up to take me to the hotel. This is where the universal language of gestures begins to come in to play. I really needed a shower when I got to the hotel and didn't want to go through all my bags to find my shower stuff, and the hotel had 3 family size pump bottles in the bathroom...so why not just use those. To all of my students who complain about never using what they learn in the classroom in real life situations, here you go, scientific method application! I obviously cant read Korean. The 3 bottles became mystery bottles. The palm of my hand became my mini lab. I observed the consistency and smell of the contents of each of those bottles to determine which to use on my hair, in which order, and which to use on my body. I think my test was a success! Silky smooth hair today! I still hadn't eaten since the airplane and when the man came to pick up this morning I really needed coffee. Coffee is my drug, not afraid to admit it. I could not figure out how to get this very important need across to my driver. How do I explain that if I don't get my go-juice asap, I would spontaneously transform into a crazy lady. I finally got a cup before catching the 3 hour bus to Seosan. I was happy again with my coffee, but still hungry. Considering eating my hand.

I'm not in Kansas anymore. I've never even been to Kansas, but you get the analogy. This is going to be way more difficult than living in and backpacking through Africa. No worries, no hurries has become GO! GO! GO! I think I will learn to love it here despite that!

Tonight, I am staying in another, much nicer hotel actually in Seosan. So, I have made it to my city just not my apartment. I will move in tomorrow. I am getting ready to go to lunch with the principal from my school, then tonight a group of us are going out to dinner and getting drinks. Meeting people might not be as difficult as expected...lets just hope they are normal and decent!

Thank you for all the encouraging messages! Love you all, you will get me through this potential uneasy start to this journey!