Monday, July 28, 2008
I am sitting at the computer right now listening to my favourite radio station, QX 104.1 Country from Winnipeg, waiting for Matt to get here. He just got here! Literally, as soon as I wrote that there was a knock on the door.
So, on Sunday we went into Incheon to go and get Matthew. It was a long trip into the airport, but when we got on the bus we met a fellow Canadian. He is from Winnipeg, so we felt a connection right there seeing as we went to school in the general vicinity of Winnipeg. We told him which school we went to and he was in shock. We were confused until he said, "I went to St. Boniface and we hate you Provies from sports!" We laughed. It was really funny. The world felt even smaller when he told me where his girlfriend is from, she is from Langenburg (for those who don't know, that is about 20-30 minutes from my parents in Esterhazy, SK) and when he called her to let her know, I spoke with her and she is friends with some of the same people as me and we are going to hang out sometime soon. Who knows, we might even know each other from home. Very small world. And then, he told us he was headed back home to Canada to go visit people and to go to a wedding in NFLD. I laughed again, he was weirded out, but I told him my family is from NFLD and are there right now, so it really felt like a small world and we chatted with him most of the way in. We are going to get together (both couples) when he gets back from Canada in a month.
We finally got Matt when his plane landed and we were all smiles when he walked out of the security doors towards us. It is sooooo unbelievably good to see a familiar face and even more so that it is one of our closest friend's face. It is so good to have him here. He was taken back by the humidity when we walked out of the airport and he bought some weird "green tea" drink, or so he thought, and it smelled like burnt deep fryer grease. Ew. He wanted us to try it, but we have learned if things in Korea smell funky, don't try it, the smell is not deceiving, it will taste bad as well. I was shocked that he forced himself to drink it. We caught the 5:10pm bus back into Wonju and then went to Matt's place to drop off his luggage and he came back here for the first night.
He slept here, we fed him breakfast and I brought him to work with me yesterday so he could meet the staff and students and observe me teaching for the day to make his first day less nerve-wracking. He keeps waking up at 5am which sounds very familiar because we did the same when we first got here. He is all settled into his apartment now, so he should start to feel a little more at home now. Yesterday teaching went well. It was a long day since I am doing intensives right now. I worked from 1-8:30pm. The first full work day I have done in 3 months. It felt so strange. I have no idea how I am going to handle it when we get back home. I guess we will have to wait and see how it goes!!
I know there is more I have to say right now (like Happy birthday Dad!! I have a video made for you I just need to post it), but I am going to go since Matt seems to be falling asleep in our livingroom. I will make sure to talk about homesickness and frustrations and our upcoming weekend when I write again. Probably later today. I am on vacation now, so I have all the time in the world to write. I will try and take some more pictures too to post. Some of Matt too!!
Miss you all so much.
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