Day 4 in Korea

The Mouse is finally starting to learn her way around and get accustomed to living in Korea. Her first few days went great, but were a bit hectic. 

Monday, The Mouse went shopping at E-Mart with Sung, to pick up some necessities for her apartment, and she met Jennifer, who went with her after work to eat dinner (more Korean BBQ!) and showed her to The Mess Table, which is a bar in Buldang (The Mouse's neighborhood) which sort of caters to all the expats (foreigners) here.

Yesterday, she got lost and, to make matters worse, it was raining and she slipped and fell, injuring her hand. JK was right, though, when he told The Mouse that Koreans are very kind and helpful. She asked someone on the street for directions to the academy but they did not know it, so he let her use his phone to call JK, and Cho (a co-worker) came and found The Mouse, and Jennifer took The Mouse to the pharmacy so we could get something to clean up her hand.

On the bright side, that is the worse thing that has happened to The Mouse since arriving in Korea. Everything else has gone very smoothly and she did not get lost on the way to the academy today, so she's finally learning direction here in Korea. It's easy to get mixed up because The Mouse doesn't understand very much Korean yet, so it is easy for her to get some landmarks confused, although JK taught her the word for "Police Station" (경찰서, gyeongchalseo) last night, because the academy is right around the corner from the police station in Ssangyong, so if she gets lost, people are more likely to know where that is, than the academy itself. 

The Mouse Fiance arrived in Korea last night, so that made her bad day much, MUCH better! JK borrowed Sung's car (since he was still teaching) and drove The Mouse to Cheonan Bus Terminal, so we could meet The Mouse Fiance there. The Mouse thinks that, in one day, The Mouse Fiance knows his way around Buldang (The Mouse neighborhood) and Ssangyong (The academy's neighborhood) better than The Mouse does, after four days.

The Mouse has taken a lot of photos and a few videos, and will post some of these on this blog whenever she uploads them to Photobucket and Youtube.