Well ladies and gentlemen, I am finally here! This experience has already been unforgettable! I apologize for such a delay in postings, but I do not have a reliable source of internet and will not have my own internet connection until the end of the month. I will start from the beginning of my adventure and try to catch up to this point!
The trip started out on a very sad note. I had to say goodbye to my parents at the airport. Walking away from them was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. My mom tried to bribe me to stay by offering to pay for Grad School. Thanks Mom! That information would have probably worked a month or a week before I left. Not an hour before :) I cried on the entire plane ride from Grand Rapids to Chicago. Poor woman sitting next to me! She started humming to drown out my sobbing! When I landed in Chicago and was waiting to board the plane to LA, it truly hit me that this was actually happening. I began crying again in O'Hare and cried off and on from Chicago to LAX. When I arrived in LA, I met an American from South Carolina who was on all of my previous flights and she was going to Korea to teach too! She helped calm me down because this was her second time teaching in Korea. She just loved it so much! She also told me the horror stories of how she got stranded at the airport and had to find a hotel by herself in Seoul. I was so nervous about that, but I'll get to that in a minute. The flight from LAX to Incheon Airport was so long! I would fall asleep, wake up, think 3 hours had past and then find out it was only 20 minutes! I did that over and over so the flight felt like 2days, not 12 hours. The good news is, despite my new friends horror stories, I got my bags with no problem, went through customs with no problem, and found my director who was picking me up with no problem. I could not have asked for a better transition to Korea!
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