Cheonan City Scape

I arrived in Korea yesterday. Professor Hong, who is the English professor here at UBE (that's her picture), met me with a smiling face at the Incheon international airport and we took a bus to Cheonan.

In Cheonan, I ordered my first meal in Korean (more like a snack--it was a bagel and iced coffee from Dunkin' Donuts). I will be more adventurous with food soon:). Actually, I was speaking English and the clerk was speaking Korean but I understood what she was saying (mostly:).

From Cheonan, we took a taxi to UBE (about half an hour). The road to the university was winding and surrounded by rolling hills. There are lots of seroka (this is the bird's name in Polish, I'm not sure what it is in English) and pine trees. At night, it was very quiet and the crickets and cicadas were singing. I slept very well on the heated floor in a room in the dormintory and felt refreshed in the morning.

The term will start next Saturday so there are mostly staff at the university. I will find out more today about the program, where I will be living, and where I will be working part-time.

I promise to post some pictures soon!