The Arrival

So I have officially been in Korea for 1 week and it has been a very longggg one. The week started off rough, the flight was actually not as bad as I thought. Watched movies during the flight and ate, couldn't sleep, cause I realized even with a neck pillow, sleeping on a plane will never EVER be comfortable. I officially respect those that fly as part of their living... LOL (<3 Nisha) and really funny experience with two Filipino ladies flying home and our synced peeing schedule during the flight... let your imagination run with that one =P
 Saw Patrick Chan on the flight (in first class) which was pretty cool, he was better looking in person because dressed down he looked more down to earth and realistic LOL stalled him for a bit when exiting customs because my customs officer didn't give me any paper to leave with lol but he was very friendly and didn't mind until I finished determining that the officer definitely did not give me any paper and the officer scoffed and told me to keep exiting?!?!? I don't understand the point of security that stands down when faced with a little mix up, if that was the case why enforce it to begin with?

Lifting the my two huge check bags and 3 carry-on items seemed daunting when I was packing and hence my down grade of 3 checked bags to two... and I was willingly forced to by my sis in law who is inarguably the best "filter" to my packing process :) Anyways I managed, with sore shoulders and a half pulled thigh muscle I got everything on a cart smoothly, then realized pushing the cart was much worse than putting them on. Uneven grounds results in triceps/bicep work out for free, especially since my bus stop was on the other side of the terminal.

The bus ride to Gwangju, Jeollanam-Do was 4 hours and I slept more than I did on my 13 and 1/2 hour flight! Was picked up by my Director and Nama (his daughter) had a really nice first impression of his family, this was probably the moment where I knew I had picked a "good one".  This is in reference to hagwons (private schools) in Korea, where apparently for every 1 decent one there are 20 horrible ones to compare with. I guarantee I got lucky because JC is a bad franchise overall and has a shit reputation but what most don't realize is that there are gazillion branches in South Korea and each branch is run by a different director, so Yang San Dong's JC was my "good" one. Of course we can compare Korea  with Western labor laws but that's like comparing "apples" who have rights and "oranges" who need money LOL