i made it!

Chronology of the last 4 days of my life:

-Pack.
-Unpack.
-Repack.
-Unpack.
-Re-repack.
-Drive to Chicago.
-2 hr orientation to "EVERYTHING-you-will-need-to-know-to-survive-&-teach-in-Korea-for- 1 year"
-sleep.........ish
-4am wakeup call to say a final goodbye to Ben's mom (yes, tears were shed)
-airport
-last goodbye to my mom ("I don't cry in public places", my ass....)
-airport
-airport
-13 hour plane ride
-Last hug to Ben for a few days :'(
-Greeted by my co-teachers Monica and Suwon
-taken to my apartment in Siheung City
*Siheung is about 1/2 hr. SW of Seoul; fairly small; nice, though- really reminds me of
being in Japan
*i am told my apartment is probably the biggest of the English teachers, I was very
pleased with it; i have a bed a tv, a balcony area to dry clothes, a kitchen, bathroom,
and some kind of sitting-room; the furnishings aren't the best, but thats fine; i do
not, however, have a rice cooker, as i was promised..... this i am very sad about
I will put up pictures as soon as i can!
-co-teachers showed me how to use all of my appliances, as the buttons are all in Korean...
-taken to various little shops to buy groceries for the next few days
-i am on my own until next Tuesday or Wednesday :/

Next Mission= find Ben!

Placements

We finally found out our placement information late last night:

1) Ben Carrier- Neung Gok High school in Siheung city

2) Christine Lynch- Ham Hyeon High school in Siheung city

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Ben and I are going to be living in the same city again!!

After we met last fall interning in Washington, D.C. I moved back to Madison, WI to finish a semester of school and Ben moved back to Maple Grove, MN (Twin Cities area) to work a spring/summer job at TruGreen.

Now, after doing the long-distance thing for about 8 months, we will FINALLY be living 5 min. (rather than 5 hours) apart!!!

We will be heading down to Chicago on Wednesday, August 19 (2 weeks!), and flying out of Chicago O'Hare on the 20th, to arrive in Korea on the 21st.

SO excited!