Thursday, March 1, 2007

I'm here....

Wow! Talk about cutting it close. I was up till about 3:30am yesterday morning on the internet. My recruiter was trying to find out why my flight info had not been forwarded to me yet. Well, I was getting tired. I just assumed it would be in another day or two. So I went to bed. Less than an hour later, my recruiter was on the phone asking me if I could be at D/FW Airport by 5:30am with all my luggage ready to go. Well, I went into my parent's bedroom in a loud voice shouting, "Get up, Get up, I've got to go to Korea!" Well my dad, God Bless Him, got up in a rush and helped me get ready. We were at United Airlines terminal by 5:20am. I was on my flight to Chicago and landed at 9:55am. I had a two hour layover and then got on Korean Air en route to Incheon. Well, we were stuck on the tarmaq for about an hour and a half before we actually took off. The seats on United Airlines were alright. I didn't have a passenger next to me, so I had some room to move around. You know, a fat man needs a little breathing room. Well, on Korean Air, I had to wedge my wide posterior into the seat. Next to me was a young Vietnamese mother with her 21 month old daughter. The little girl was adorable, but she loved to kick and scream. Needless to say, I didn't get my sleep on the plane. Well, upon my arrival to Incheon, my ride from the school I'll be working at immediately walked up to me and introduced himself. I then realized that he new me because I'm one of the few large, bald, white men at a Korean airport. Anyway, he was a good dude. Real nice. He immediately grabbed my bags and we got on a bus. We rode the bus for a little over an hour before we got to our stop. We got the bags of the bus and walked another 5 minutes before arriving at the school I'll be teaching at. I was immediately introduced to the whole teaching crew. They seem like good people too. I hung out with them for a couple of hours in the teacher's workroom and my new boss dropped me off at a hotel. My apartment won't be ready till tomorrow. So the view from my hotel room is bright! Bright like Las Vegas, bright! I'll take pics. So, I haven't slept in about 48 hours and now I'm jetlagged to boot. But I'm happy to have that flight out of the way. Stay tuned! I'll have more for you later.

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