Tonight I went downtown with my new friend Nina to hang out with another new friend, Kristin. The three of us enjoyed a delicious fully-loaded baked potato dinner, a bottle of wine, and the classic, hilarious 1969 film Batman. That film is so cheesy, but that just makes it all the better. It was terrific fun mocking all the pathetic dialogue and "special effects", and of course, rooting for the bad guys. As much as I love Koreans, it was great to hang out with a British girl and another American and be able to speak in complete sentences sans charades.
Today officially marks the end of my third week in Korea. In this short amount of time I've been introduced to dozens of new dishes (most of them delicious), learned to decipher Korean nutrition information on packaged foods, learned to communicate with people in grocery stores, made several new friends, discovered that I really like teaching, and even learned to use Korean appliances. I have yet to humiliate myself in a public place, and I have not committed any cultural offences. On top of all that, my boss likes me, and I her. I'd say I'm off to a simply smashing start!
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