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| Chocolate Pocky Sticks, Maxim coffee, & Korean style chewy Choc-Chip Cookies |
Orientation is the first five days of the trip. We stay in the hotel and attend lectures from 9am - 9pm. For the most part they are helpful and informative. Others...let's just say I need some Korean snacks to get me through them...
They feed us breakfast - lunch - and dinner. The first day was pretty good. Since then it has been downhill. Koreans love a lot of seafood which is not my fave. Most dishes come with a seafood soup or some sort of seafood on the plate. Spaghetti sauce? shrimps in it. Salad dressing? mussels are on the side, sweet and sour pork? served with filet fish...Food is deinitely going to be a challenge here. I am trying to have an open mind, but there are just some things that I cannot do.
****************Slowly, reality is starting to hit...as things become more apparently different and I have to adjust my normalcy. I need an adaptor for everything...and I mean everything.
Living out of bags is the worst, so I cannot wait to get my apartment.
It was not until Friday February 23rd, that I woke up and was like..."Cam, your in frickin' Korea"...I looked out the window for the first time and took it in...I have to admit, Im pretty excited.
Some quick Korean for you....
Hello/How are you? - Pronunciation - "Ahn-nyung-ha-say-yo"
Nice to meet you. - Pronunciation - "Bahn-ghap-seum-ni-da"
Thank-you - Pronunciation - "Kahm-sam-ni-da"
That "Bibimbap" looks delicious!... Minus the raw egg part of course. By the sounds of it you may have to break out of your shell and try the sea food thing. Who knows, you may end up loving it! They probably make it better over there than they do over here.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see pictures of your apartment once you're in, the suitcase life is never pleasant. The reality of you being gone still hasn't made its way over to Ajax, Ontario, and I am not mad at that. I got tests and stuff coming up, I am not even trying to have a breakdown *uninterested face*.
However, by the things that you have posted so far I am feeling more at ease in terms of your safety.
But keep the posts coming girl, you're introducing us all to a whole new world.
P.S.- I just wanna say the hair looks like its adapting well to the Korean air, so bouncy and luxurious, yes. I see you girl. Shake it like a Polaroid picture! *Andre 3 voice*