한국에서 인사말 Greetings from Korea!!! 한국에서 인사말

한국에서 인사말 Greetings from Korea!!! 한국에서 인사말

Hello family and friends,

I am glad to report that I made it in safely to South Korea! After three plane rides, a total duration of sixteen hours, and an hour bus ride to Seoul we made it to Yongsun army base where we spent the night with other Camp Adventure girls. The plane rides were long and bumpy. We were delayed on our first flight from Cedar Rapids to Chicago at six a.m. till seven thirty due to EXTREME lightning. Then we sat on the run way in Chicago for an hour waiting to fly to Tokyo. On the 12 hour flight to Tokyo I watched How to Train your Dragon, Alice in Wonderland, and Leap-year. We arrived in Tokyo, I was with Jesa, Devin, and James three people that I will be working with this summer, all from Iowa. Our last group member is Kristin from California and we met with her later that night. We went through security in Tokyo and after passing through Jesa realized her passport was missing. We had to watch the security tapes to figure out where it was and who took it and after an hour of panicked worrying a Korean man turned it in saying he accidently picked it up...stressful! So we arrived in Korea and were picked up by our two army men in charge who drove us for an hour to the base. Korea is awesome! I heard more honking in the streets getting to base than I have in my whole life. Seoul has a population of 20 million people and it’s the biggest city in South Korea. We got to base and passed out. The next morning we were suppose to leave at eight am to make the four hour drive to Taegu. We are still struggling with the jet lag though so everyone was awake by six a.m. The five of us going to Taegu met at seven to eat some breakfast at the five star hotel on base before we left. After breakfast we headed back to pack up our bags, and ran into some problems. The cleaning lady closed my door when we were gone and the key wouldn’t open it back up. We had to call a locksmith and weren’t able to leave for about an hour and a half. We sat on the floor and played Egyptian rat screw. So finally we were on the road with our little Korean driver who wore white gloves. It was pouring down rain when we left, we are about to go into monsoon season, so it was kind of cloudy and tough to see the city. Eventually the clouds passed and I got to spend four hours driving through Korea, driving through country, mountains, and city. It was absolutely beautiful. About halfway through our drive our driver pulled into a glorified rest area to eat his lunch. We enjoyed a twenty minute break exploring real Korea for the first time. The food was crazy look and fairly cheap, 2000 wan for everything or 2 bucks. There were a few stands so we looked around at the stuff and enjoyed the hip hopping blaring Korean music! Piling back in the van we continued to play games and look at scenery and hold our breath through the twenty-two tunnels we drove through, our driver couldn’t figure out what we were up to. We arrived in Taegu, or Daegu, the third largest city in South Korea with a population of 5 million people! We drove through an amazing down town that is right outside of our base, Camp Walker. We got on and were signed on by our bosses for the summer. They took us to the hotel we would be staying at and everyone was blown away. We are staying in a hotel for the summer with free continental breakfast every morning and many other fancy accommodations. I am sharing a room with Jesa, we both have our own queen size bed, a television with DVD/VCR player, a bathroom, microwave, minifridge and coffee maker. We have an adjoining room with Kristin who has a bed, fridge, microwave, bathroom, and little table. The boys are down the hall and they each have their own room. We have internet in our rooms and we are able to steal the ladies wireless from downstairs for like a week. So needless to say I will be taken care of for the summer. Our base has a taco bell, subway, and burger king. We also have a track, workout facility, two pools, and a library! Plus we have the standard commissary (grocery store) shopette (small store) and PX (clothing/anything you could want store) we weren’t able to get our base passes yet because of paper work issues so we are getting them today, then we will be allowed to shop in all the above mentioned places and use the facilities. Last night we all got back from training stuff at like five and unpacked and showered. The boys came over at like seven and we played loaded questions and catch phrase till nine, as late as we could stay up until we all crashed. Jesa and I were up early this morning at six and have been playing on the computer, talking the family, eating breakfast, and reading till we have to meet for more training at nine. I’m super excited for the summer. The five of us seem to click really well and we are super spoiled! I have a feeling these ten weeks are going to fly! Enjoy the rest of your night and I’ll catch you up more later this week hopefully!

Love,
Elizabeth!