Hawaii Pictures and New Apartment

I got back a few days ago from an awesome vacation in Hawaii with my family! I already miss them but at least I’ve been busy since I got back. I got to the airport near Seoul around 5:30 Saturday afternoon~ Dave met me there and we went straight to my new apartment in Gwangju. My new mentor teacher, Cathy, met us at the Gwangju bus terminal at 11:00 at night and took us to the new place. She is super sweet and extremely helpful! The apartment is close to the same size as my old one but broken up into different rooms, which is nice. It was not nearly up to Marsh clean standards but it was too late to do anything about that so we just went in and passed out (on the floor… I’m working on getting a bed).

Sunday we woke up early and went to Mokpo to pack up my old apartment. Justina, my old co-teacher, and her father came all the way from Gwangju so I would have a car to move! Koreans might actually be the most helpful people I have ever met. Since Sunday I’ve been scrubbing every inch of the apartment and unpacking the numerous boxes of stuff that I have accumulated over the past 5 months. Honestly, I have no idea where it all came from.

Yesterday I also went to Hanjae Elementary to meet some of the faculty and kids. They took pictures of me fake-teaching 3^rd grade for either a yearbook or a school magazine…I didn’t quite catch what she was explaining. The school and everyone in it seems really nice, I even have an English classroom!!

As of about 20 minutes ago I think I have finally finished unpacking and cleaning everything, though I still can’t get some of the mold out of the bathroom.

Here are some pictures of my new place:

 Bathroom~ sink shower may be the one downfall of this apartment.

 Separate kitchen

 Full size closet

 Separate laundry room

And my temporary bed

And my many albums of Hawaii!! :

Hawaii~ Days 1 and 2

Hawaii~ Day 3

Hawaii~ Day 4

Hawaii~ Days 5 and 6

Enjoy!

xox