New Residence: Seoul, South Korea

I’m finally here. After 19 straight hours of travelling, I made it here at 2:50pm on August 22 (12:50am on August 22 Central Time). The plane ride wasn’t so bad; I got to watch Kung Fu Panda, Made of Honor, House M.D., and House of Payne.
When I got off the plane I went to baggage claim to pick up my luggage to find out that my body wash spilled over some of my belongings. Luckily, nothing was permanently damaged. Mr. Ru (sp?) and Ronda Everson was right outside the baggage claim holding a sign that said, “Marshall Wade,” so it wasn’t hard to find them. The clouds outside were a dark grey and it was drizzling constantly all day, not a good impression of the city. It took us about an hour to get to the school where Mr. Ru got a student to show me where my dorm was. When I got there I made a claim never to talk about OC housing again. My dorm was smaller than my private dorm I had as a freshmen at OC. And to make matters even worse, it had three beds in it! One of my roommates were already there, his name was Husun (sp?). I asked was another person coming and nobody was for sure, but most of them thought somebody else was on their way sometime over the weekend. So I dropped my bags and we all went to eat. By this time, Ronda’s two children, Samuel, 19, Winter, 14, and Don Kinder, a teacher at KCU had made it. We walked to this restaurant that was down the street from the school. I had a pork cutlet, curry, and rice. And of course, like every other meal here, it had Kim chi. Dinner was pretty good. As we walked back in the rain, I realized that I was going to need an umbrella. When I asked Don where I could get one, he just simply gave me his when we made it back to the dorm. When I arrived at my dorm John, the student president, was there to welcome me. Afterwards I headed to my dorm and unpacked. I think that was when it hit me that this was not a weeklong vacation. Once I was done I immediately made my bed and went to sleep. Due to jet lag, I woke up around 2a.m. Don warned me of that. After about an hour, I fell asleep again to wake up at 6a.m. That time I decided to get up and go watch some T.V. in the lounge area. Surprisingly, they had a couple of channels that aired movies in English. I decided to watch Forrest Gump. This is turning out to be a wonderful place. I think I can make it here for four months.