After hours and hours of flights, layovers, and stomach-churning taxi rides, I have finally arrived in my new home in Korea.  From the airport, I was taken to meet the head director of the school I will be teaching with, fed massive amounts of food and beer… Then I was taken to teach my first class.  One thing I did not read about when researching how to teach english overseas was the prospect of stepping off an airplane and walking directly to the front of a classroom with eight Korean children peering curiously at me.  Luckily, the class was quite short and the kids were well-mannered enough to tolerate my jet-lagged and drowsy repeated reading of the words “hop,” “top” and “mop.”  Bewildered and slightly overwhelmed, I stumbled back to my apartment (which is quite nice by my standards!) and immediately collapsed in an exhausted heap.  It’s hard to believe so much has happened all in one day.  I’m nervously excited to see what the upcoming year will have in store for me, but assuming there will be lots of kimchi involved, I think I will like it here.