We leave tomorrow for Korea!
This is a picture from our going away party at Candlelight in Simi Valley last week. Thanks to everyone who came...we had a blast! To update everyone, we leave Friday, Oct. 20th at 12:55 pm. We fly to Narita, Japan and connect on a flight to Pusan from there. We arrive Korea at 9pm on Saturday. Korea is 17 hours ahead of Pacific time. It's the middle of Typhoon season now and Pusan, the city we're moving to, is the most Typhoon stricken city in Korea. Niether of us have ever been in a typhoon so we're excited to try something new. It's also an interesting political time to be moving to Korea with North Korea's nuclear weapons testing and Kim Jong-il's egotistical threats. (more on N. Korea's nuclear testing to come).
Just to let everyone know, we are actually moving to Korea 10 days before we start work so we can explore the city and get our bearings. The school we are teaching for however thinks it's perfectly fine for us to move into our apartment the day we start work. Since we have no place to live we're going to ruff it for 10 days in a youth hostel before moving to our apartments, which by the way are 10 pyongs big. (We're scared to find out how small a pyong really is!) We'll keep you posted.
-Heather and Jennifer