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Published: December 17th 2009
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Daegu at night I am more than halfway through my second week of teaching English in Daegu, South Korea. I am exhausted, but I am having a blast!
I should probably fill in a few blanks. After we passed training, Parker, Alisha, and I were dropped off at the train station in Seoul with KTX tickets. We waited around (caffeinated and ate some Korean Micky D's)
for our train to Daegu. Some man came and bound up all of our luggage-- I guess we were in the way. When it was time to actually move it though, he never came back, so we dismantled the dolly he had set up, and I used my super German farm girl strength to bind our four largest suitcases together. Parker and Alisha took the other bags, and we made our way onto the train.
After such a stressful night prepping for the final mocks and test, and then hauling our luggage to the train, I pretty much zoned out with my iPod on for the 1 hour and 50 minute train ride to Daegu. Once at the station, we all headed up where we were picked up by our head instructors. Alisha met hers
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Parker (L) and Pat (R) walking around the streets of Daegu at night first-- and found out she'd be teaching in the same building as us (just two floors up). Then, Jin met Parker and I at the station.
Two people w/ a year's worth of luggage + Korean car (a KIA, I think) + three people = game of Tetris
We figured out how to cram all of our luggage in the car and made out way to our new officetel building. Unfortunately, Jin had some errand to run/friends to catch/paperwork to give to Jake (our branch manager) and pretty much dropped us on the doorstep of our building where we'd meet Pat.
Patrick is a cool kid from Boston who arrived about a week before us; he lives upstairs. Pat let us in and brought a set of keys. For Parker's room. It took a little while, but after chilling in the fourth floor stairwell (no worries, we *do* have an elevator -- moving all my stuff up was a breeze), eventually, the keys to my door were brought! Hurrah!
Pat stuck notes to our doors the next morning (or maybe even that night) with the entrance code to our building. My first order of business: getting
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I love Engrish a comforter. While Parker's apartment was set up with pots, pans, blankets, etc., mine was not. BUT I did get the new TV and the extra fridge... while he only got his a few days ago. Additionally, I needed a frying pan, and a few miscellaneous other things (hangers, an extra pillow, and a surge protector among them). That weekend, I got to explore the downtown area (I'm about a 15 minute walk from the bar district) and made my first trip to E-Mart.
What is E-Mart?
Glad you asked. E-Mart is a lot like Target meets Value City meets Service Merchandise meets Walmart. It's also four stories high. The ground floor is a grocery store w/ butcher and fresh seafood. The main level is clothing and accessories. the second floor is home goods, pets, electronics, office supplies/books, and toys. The third/top floor is outdoors, etc. E-Mart also has a few fast food joints and a Starbucks inside. Craziness. It pretty much has EVERYTHING. (The particular E-Mart I am referring to here is in Manchon-dong)
Anyway, with the help of E-Mart, I could finally live. I hung up a few pictures, my postcard collection (I still have
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It's skin. yet to locate where I can get postcards here, btw. I'm sure I'll find them soon enough), and I made ice.
It's safe to say I'm settling well.
Next entry will probz have more about my kiddies, Korean TV, and OMG FOOD.
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Lee Dae-Hyung
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Welcome to Dae-gu!
Welcome to Dae-gu! I hope you have a good journey in Dae-gu, South Korea.