Aaaaaah...crazy!

The Koreans love their festivals

Aaaah :-)

Some of the people that we are spending time with

Eating Potato pancakes

Eating Potato pancakes

Eating Potato pancakes

Ian in Korean Folk Village

Korean Folk Village

Just finished a banquet supper with all sorts of wierd & wonderful food.

Shelagh learnt how to say "delicious!" - "mashi-soyo!"

Great locals here!

The view from our temporary apartment fro orientation week. Around 0 degrees and battling to type this... :-)

First few photo's - travelling & arrival!

Our special nieces helping us close our fat bags - 52kg's together before the hand luggage!

Arrival!

Arrival - Thurs 5pm SA time (midnite here)!

We are sitting at a fast, free Inet service at the University where we'll be 'orientating' over the next week. Outside it is 0 degrees and snowing. Over past 2 days in transit (during which we have met loads of other people doing the same thing, especially fellow SAfricans), we flew CT-JHB, JHB- DOHA (Qatar), DOHA-OSAKA (Japan) and finally OSAKA-SEOUL. We then had a 2.5 hour bus ride through the snowy night to get to where we are now. We arrived to:

1. very enthusiastic welcomes
2. snackpacks
3. free towels, slippers, travelmugs (you know how we love free stuff)
4. a cool new hoodie
5. a cosy apartment on the 6th floor of the women's res (students graduate tomorrow)
6. the promise of a big medical examination, XRays, injections, etc tomorrow 9am - woohoo!

Both feeling so grateful that this adventure is actually unfolding, both very excited for what that's going to look like, feel like, taste like (!) over the next year...

Over and out for now. Time to hit that strange looking but very magnetic bed...