I spent most of my birthday, July 6, 2009 traveling around the world with the final destination being Daegu, South Korea. I started in Miami, then Detroit, then Tokyo and last airport stop was Pusan, South Korea (South side of the country). An employee of the company I was going to work for picked me up and drove me 1 hour away to my temporary housing in Daegu. I began training the following day and for the first 4 days, I got an average of 3-4hrs of sleep. Thankfully, work doesn’t start until 4pm and ends at 11pm but my body just couldn’t adjust.
My first weekend in SoKo, should have been spent relaxing but you all know me better, I decided to join a group of 45 folks from my school to Korea’s biggest mud festival. It generally attracts over 1 million visitors and I was eager to begin making new friends. All photos are on facebook and as you can see I not only had a great time but made some cool a$$ f’ing friends.
My first week teaching was awesome. I was still struggling with the culture change, my body was still not use to the hours but one thing was not giving me any stress and that was the work I was getting paid to do. Teaching is extremely easy and lesson plans are laid out for me every week. I just have to execute them and that folks is what I call a 180 degree change from what I use to do. Not that I hate consulting or that I see myself teaching forever, but after 9 years of consulting, I am going to enjoying not stressing about my job. Especially enjoying the fact that work only begins until 4pm and completely ends at 10:20pm! No taking work home, blackberry, etc. J
My second week was uneventful until I unexpectedly received my ALIEN RESIDENT CARD. I thought it would take longer, but as soon as I got it, we went str8 to the bank and opened my account. And now I’m writing on my 3-week anniversary and today I got my cell phone! Yahoo! Little by little, I am settling into this very comfy situation and am looking forward to I begin traveling throughout Korea and the rest of Asia!
My apartment is in a great quiet street and considerably large and I have a washing machine inside! God I miss this, never had it in NYC.
As far as a special someone is concerned, that is just not going to happen here. Apparently, the gay life just exists in Seoul (2hrs from here) and while theres one or 2 spots in Daegu, most gay anything is repressed here. I am not sad (not happy) about this because I think a year of self reflection will do me some good. But I am also not dismissing any opportunities that present themselves. Stay tuned…
As far as nightlife is concerned, I am very happy to report that I have had many nights that ended at 4am and 10am on weekends. There is just always something to do in this town and the expat community is large and connected. Unfortunately all straight, but heck it can’t all be perfect ey? As long as good music is around, I will remain a happy camper!
That’s all for now folks. Just wanted to report in and say that I finally got to Korea and have made some progress in settling down (at least for the next year (or 2, who knows).
My first weekend in SoKo, should have been spent relaxing but you all know me better, I decided to join a group of 45 folks from my school to Korea’s biggest mud festival. It generally attracts over 1 million visitors and I was eager to begin making new friends. All photos are on facebook and as you can see I not only had a great time but made some cool a$$ f’ing friends.
My first week teaching was awesome. I was still struggling with the culture change, my body was still not use to the hours but one thing was not giving me any stress and that was the work I was getting paid to do. Teaching is extremely easy and lesson plans are laid out for me every week. I just have to execute them and that folks is what I call a 180 degree change from what I use to do. Not that I hate consulting or that I see myself teaching forever, but after 9 years of consulting, I am going to enjoying not stressing about my job. Especially enjoying the fact that work only begins until 4pm and completely ends at 10:20pm! No taking work home, blackberry, etc. J
My second week was uneventful until I unexpectedly received my ALIEN RESIDENT CARD. I thought it would take longer, but as soon as I got it, we went str8 to the bank and opened my account. And now I’m writing on my 3-week anniversary and today I got my cell phone! Yahoo! Little by little, I am settling into this very comfy situation and am looking forward to I begin traveling throughout Korea and the rest of Asia!
My apartment is in a great quiet street and considerably large and I have a washing machine inside! God I miss this, never had it in NYC.
As far as a special someone is concerned, that is just not going to happen here. Apparently, the gay life just exists in Seoul (2hrs from here) and while theres one or 2 spots in Daegu, most gay anything is repressed here. I am not sad (not happy) about this because I think a year of self reflection will do me some good. But I am also not dismissing any opportunities that present themselves. Stay tuned…
As far as nightlife is concerned, I am very happy to report that I have had many nights that ended at 4am and 10am on weekends. There is just always something to do in this town and the expat community is large and connected. Unfortunately all straight, but heck it can’t all be perfect ey? As long as good music is around, I will remain a happy camper!
That’s all for now folks. Just wanted to report in and say that I finally got to Korea and have made some progress in settling down (at least for the next year (or 2, who knows).
