Good bye, America; 안녕하세요 한국 (Hello, Korea)

Picking up our passports was a breeze. We then took a bus to Santa Monica came back to the Hotel and played XBOX360 until the super shuttle came. When we finally boarded the plane, I was surprised that it was so BIG! I felt like I had to walk forever to get to the back where we were sitting. The actual plane ride was not bad, we left at midnight so they gave us a HOT MEAL (which was included) and every one went to sleep real quick. The plane was also equipped with TVs in the back of the head rests which showed movies and video games, also it had a sky map which showed where the airplane is and cameras that show what the pilot sees and another that points down. Also with the meals they gave FREE wine! Amazing! Any ways I slept  for 8 hours and so when I woke up I only had 5 hours left. They served another HOT MEAL (Korea Air does not mess around when it comes too food) and I watched some crazy Hong Kong action flick and then played some games and watched the sky map and we flew over Japan. I could see much of what ever city we flew over. When we landed at ICN I was thinking “that was a piece of cake!” --- I later decided the flight was so easy because they treat you so good. We then had to go through immigration which was weird. My first impression of the airport was that it was really, really clean. We got our bags and met a guy who works for our recruiting company. He drove DevilGirl and myself to Uijeongbu. First we went to DevilGirls place and then I was whisked off to my School to meet my teachers and principal. My co-teacher is very nice, her English name is Jane. She showed me around and when I met the principal he had a meeting with Jane, the vice-principal and another teacher -- all in Korean. I had no idea what they were saying but I was later told by the guy who drove us to Uijeongbu that the principal liked they way I looked because I am tall. I was told to go to my apartment and then my co-teacher would come get me in a few hours. I was dropped off at my apartment with a room number and some keys, after getting in to the building I was feeling lonely so I turned on the computer and found a open WIFI connection to leach off of, and Devil Girl was on so I went to here house. Luckily I had marked her location with my Garmin Dakota GPS so I was able to walk there which is about 1.7 miles. I got there and spent time with her and then went back to my place in time for my co-teacher to come get me and introduce me to some students who said that they loved my face and that I was handsome. LoL!
Saturday, Devil Girl and I went out to explore and found an underground mall, it was pretty sweet and the close are super cheep. Other than clothes they had lots and lots of cell phones, probably about 200-300 different kinds in probably 50-75 different shops. The most popular from what I can tell is the "lollipop 2" which has the Korean Pop Musicians "Big Bang" as their spokes persons. Another thing is it seems like all the store in this mall were just named random English names and phrases, like a mens clothing store name "Cheetos" and a womans clothing store named "bling bling" only  it sold very respectable looking outfits --- not "ghetto fabulous" in the least. After we found our way home from the mall using my GPS(comes in handy) we chilled out and then DevilGirl's co-worker showed us to Home Plus which is like 4 stories of shopping bliss. DevilGirl already talked about it in a previous post so I wont get into it too much. One thing I will say is the people there are like 400 times nicer then in the states. We got some shampoo off the shelf and then a worker came up to us and said "1+1". Apparently it was buy one, get one free and she wanted to make sure we got the deal. This happened a few other times and this blew my socks off because this would never happen in the US.
Sunday the two of us went with DevilGirls's Co-worker to meet the "Bu Crew" which was cool to talk to other English speakers. We left early because the "Bu Crew" likes to party till 4-6 in the morning and well DevilGirl and I are just not into that. We were a ways from home and having a hard time getting a taxi --- so a English Speaking Korean came up to us and told us he would help. He was very nice and seemed like he just wanted to practice his English --- which we was pretty good at. Any ways he got us a taxi and told the driver where to go. He was so nice and welcomed us to South Korea. We finally got back to my place and went straight to bed.
Sunday we just hung out at my place and rested, then it started raining so I walked DevilGirl home in the rain and got my feet wet on the way back. Blah. Went to bed at like 9 am --- Monday is my first day at work, which went very well. I got ready quickly and was cursing the rain when my shoes were not dry yet. Luckily Jane picked me up and drove me to school because it was still raining.
My students are too cute for words. They seem to be so excited to have a new teacher. One little girl gave me a sucker and told me happy white day. :)
I also had a physical today which cost me 62,000 won. crappy. I took the needle like a champ and afterwards Jane took me out for yummy Korean food which was a lot like sushi. yum. Excited for tomorrow!