Jeonju University

Wow... It's been almost 3 months since I last wrote. Things were really hectic in Vancouver, what with moving out of my apartment, back to my parents' home, then getting ready to move to Korea. We managed to find a direct flight to Incheon, but we paid $1043 ($957 + tax) for each ticket on Air Canada Tango Plus. What made me mad was the fact that a week later, they offered not only cheaper tickets for Tango, but the Tango Plus tickets had dropped around $150! We should have just waited.
However, the time came when we had to leave for Korea. Two days prior, Aaron and I were still scrambling around to find everything we would need to bring and didn't pack until the last day pretty much. The flight was extremely long and uneventful, which is definitely a good thing. I never sleep well in planes, so I spent the 11 hours watching Sunshine Cleaning, Monsoon Wedding, and a Korean movie called Too Much Blue. I rarely slept, but napped fitfully on Aaron a little bit at a time. Once landed, our temperatures were each taken and we proceeded to the commuter train, which would take us to customs. Customs took the longest as we had foreign passports. I think Aaron and I were the last people at Customs as we were in the middle of the lineup, and people behind us were moved to other faster lineups. We finally moved through, retrieved our luggage and after a 4 hour bus ride, arrived at Jeonju University where we would spend the next 9 days in orientation.
The orientation consists of lectures from 9:00-5:30p (with lunch in between). The lectures are supposed to help supplement your knowledge of teaching English in Korea. I have never actually taken a TOEIC course of any kind, but the lectures albeit a bit boring sometimes, do help to give me ideas for lesson plans. We had a welcoming presentation where we watched a Pansori, a fan dance, and a Korean drum dance. We were then given a lecture by Kevin Price regarding Korean culture such as chemyun and noonchi. The lecture was enjoyable, but I found that I already knew about such customs as they are similar to the way I was brought up. That is one thing I have realized about Korea. How similiar it is to Chinese and Japanese culture, but at the same time is different in its own way.