http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/jeren3/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from jeren3 en-us Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:00:17 +0000 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:00:17 +0000 Almost FridayIt is 530 PM here and I just finished up. Jen has another 2 hours to go. I have a headache The kids were wild today. Like the gym there is no sense of personal space. We are poked and prodded all day long. Little girls cling to our legs as we try to walk. But they are sweet. Usually.....At any rate the temple yesterday was amazing. It was truly a place of peace and beauty. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6751.html Hi allIt is 1025 here in St. Pete and Jen is doing her final packing for the big trip. We created this web log to chronicle our upcoming adventure in Busan South Korea and our adventure together in life. For those who don't know is this is Jeremy writing. I am 30 years old a Tennessee native and a college instructor. Jen is 25 a St. Pete girl and just recently graduated from the Universit http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Tampa/blog-6742.html And like that she's gone. Tampa Bay is a little less beautiful today but South Korea is about to be enriched beyond measure. Have a safe trip princess. I will try to sleep now and dream of you. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Tampa/blog-6743.html Well I have finally arrived in South Korea and have settled in for the most part. First impressions are that I'm going to have a wonderful experience here. The school I joined is nice and the other teachers are all very friendly and laid back. Of course teaching is a new experience for me and there will be a leaning curve.I'm teaching all ages from kindergarten up to fifth grade. I forgot how ene http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6744.html So much to say and so little time to say it Once we get settled we will try to be more diligent in writing but the past two weeks have been a whirlwind I have been finishing my job as an instructor and advisor at USF finishing my school work in my master's program finishing writing USF's SACS report don't ask packing my apartment up without a job searching for a job and missing Jen every http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Florida/Tampa/blog-6745.html Well we finally got Jeremy a job. He will work at the same school and arrives this Thursday night late. I am so excited. I miss everyone so much and can't wait to be with him again. The next three days will feel like a lifetime but once he gets here it will all be worth it.I am so excited to do our apartment together and to explore the city together. This will all be quite the experience I'm su http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6746.html Jeremy writing.....My day did not begin well on Wednesday morning. On what was supposed to be such a great day of departure my alarm failed to go off at 430 and I snapped awake at 646 AM. My flight was to leave at 759 AM and I live 30 minutes away from the airport. To boot my car was not loaded up. I called my friend Lisa who was supposed to take me to the airport to tell her what happened. I http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6747.html Well Jeremy has already spoken about of first day back together. It was fun working together and the kids already love him. Tonight all the foreign teachers at the school and our directors are going to have a welcome dinner for him. It will be his first time trying Korean food. I'm really hoping to someday have him off of the Checkers Sonic Long John Silver's ugghhh pizza diet he has done http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6748.html eremy writing....Well it is the end of my second full day and I am tired These kids are wild but I feel like a bit of a rock star. Today I got on the kindy bus and the kids screamed my name like I was one of the Beatles in their prime. They mobbed me and grabbed my hands. Everywhere Jen goes people ask her if she is a movie star. And for the record even though I feel like a rock star I realize http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6750.html Busy is the word so far. We are busy each second of each day but once our laptop comes Thanks Mom and Dad we will be able to post from home. Quick update though This weekend was spent lounging around for the most part. On Saturday we went to a bar on a local beach with a couple of new Canadian friends. The weather wasn't great but the company was We then went to a bookstore and got some boo http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6752.html So the Japan trip. After almost missing my flight to Busan I got a bit of paranoia in me and didn't sleep very well. I was awake well before the alarm went off and finally rolled out of bed at 445. I took a shower put my bag over my shoulder gave Jen a kiss then headed out into the dark. There is nothing worse than getting up when it is still dark outside. I caught a cab to the Marriott a b http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6753.html Well Jeremy has touched on most everything that's happened in our lives. The personal space thing is definitely taking some getting used to. Every where I go I get touched. Especially at school. My kindergarten is out of control. They poke me everywhere and when I inquired about it to the staff they told me that is a compliment and they like me. Thanks for the help Teachers day was really ni http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6754.html WebsiteWell I finally finished our website. This is where we'll be posting pictures. I hope you enjoyhttpwww.jeren.worldbreak.comThe Daily RutWell Jeremy is right. Our day to day lives aren't exactly the most exciting. I guess it all plays out the same every place in the world. My schedule is a bit more relaxed than his. I go into work every day at 1245pm. First I have my kindergarten clas http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6755.html Jen writing This week really flew by. Now that I've gotten to know my students better and I have a better grasp of their abilities time is flying by. I'm really enjoying teaching and I really like my kids. Now that we've had six weeks to get to know each other classes are a lot more fun. When we have behavior problems we're told to stick the children out in the hallway and have them stand up http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6756.html Alright my turn. First let me say that it finally happened. I was waiting for a bus and a high school kid approached me and said hello. I said hello back and that is as far as it usually goes but then he asked if he could take a picture with me. I laughed and nodded but had to ask why. He spewed some excuse about having homework requiring him to talk to a foreigner and needing photographic evi http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6757.html Jeremy writingFirst a quick story that relates to cultural observations. The people here as mentioned think we are quite the novelty. They openly stare and talk about us although we have no idea what they are saying. I tend to think they are saying What a handsome couple. Perhaps they are movie stars shooting a new Hollywood film. At any rate another thing they are always amazed by is o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6758.html Jen writing Well I've had quite a bit of fun scaring innocent Korean people. I did it again at school last week. I was headed to class and my students will usually come get me if I'm not there exactly when class starts. I was at the head of the stairs and could hear them running to the stairwell to come down and get me. I stopped at the corner and jumped out toward them to find that it was one http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6759.html Jen writing Well as many of you have noticed and commented on we have not updated our journal in quite some time. The reason for this was actually not pure laziness. We have not been able to access the site from overseas for about a month and a half. We had to wait until I was in the U.S. in order to switch it over. The new site is httpjeren.blogspot.comWe hope to be updating this one quit http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6760.html Jen writinghellip Well it has been a very long time since wersquove been able to login and update this journal. I assure you it was not because wersquore lacking stories to talk about. There have been a bunch of hysterical things that have happened to us over the last two months so we will try our best to recollect them now.The BeachWe have spent a good portion of our weekends at the bea http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-6761.html Our trip to Jeju July 31August 4 We were unable to access our live journal for so long there is some more catching up to do. Our school was generous enough to allot three entire days of summer vacation from August 24 so we decided to use that bountiful block of time to take some sort of trip. Our wise employers rightly decided to only give us about a month head start on planningthey were righ http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/blog-6762.html