After two months as nomads, we finally have our own place again.

We're starting to settle into our new apartment. It's bigger than our old one, and in Korea, that's saying something. We have three bedrooms, which gives us room for lots of visitors. I don't know if any friends from back home are going to visit and take us up on our offer of free accommodation, but we definitely have room for all the friends we made during orientation. I hope they come visit us at least. Even if they don't, the other teachers in Yeosu seem really cool and I'm looking forward to hanging out with them.

Our co-teacher is really really nice. She took us to Lotte Mart (or as the Koreans say it, 'Lottie Martuh') and helped us get groceries for our new place. She kept remarking at how all of my choices were 'low calorie' and for 'people who are trying to lose weight.' Eventually she looked me up and down and told me that I'm crazy for being so thin and eating so healthily.

An teenaged girl said 'hi' to me in a sultry way and then she and her gaggle of friends broke into giggles when I turned around. Being a celebrity is going to take a bit of getting used to. Supposedly, 53 elementary schools of children are going to visit our 'English Town' in the course of the next year, so we're going to be very well known in Yeosu, at least among the little children we'll be teaching. We get a different class to teach every morning and afternoon. I'll say more about it when I know more.

It looks like the two women here before were quite the partiers; there are nearly six bottles of half-drunk wine in the kitchen, and plenty of soju, beer, and vodka in the fridge. The other teacher at our school must miss them, from the sounds of things she really wants to hang out. I'd be happy to go out tonight, but she didn't answer her cell phone when I called. So I'm sitting her rambling.

We don't have to go to work until Thursday, when we'll be meeting the rest of the teaching staff. I'm not sure when we'll start teaching, but I think we should take advantage of these two days respite to see Yeosu and have some fun.