Working to Travel...Travel to Work

I have survived my first month in Busan, South Korea! I have learned much in these first weeks and not simply different cultural customs and etiquette, though I embrace each and every trait with open arms...yet it is that I feel comfortable in my skin for the first time in a while. I feel content and although with each day there comes more to know and remember I feel that these challenges are endearing and inspiring. My first trip to the grocery store...or as it is better known in Korea as Home Plus, was probably one of the most entertaining events in my every day life here in South Korea...not for myself but for fellow customers in the store. You see when we are in our home town...or our native speaking country we don't have to think twice about going to purchase garbage bags...how to find them or how to ask a store clerk for them. This my friends is one thing I feel I may have taken for granted back in Canada. I found myself in the middle of the store being stared down by several other customers as I...the only blonde white girl in the store did my best attempt at miming to the sales lady what I was looking for. I was impressioning tying up a garbage bag...saying out loud "throw away" and jumping around with my arms flailing about. I know that someone in that Home Plus store that night left a happier person...laughing at the white girl dancing around. Crazy waegooks..as they call us foreigners. I am definitly enjoying the challenges I am put to every day...exploring new areas of the town with beautifully lined market stands along narrow streets...walking into restaurants and not being able to read the menu so just resorting to pointing at the most appealing meal in the picture. I am happy to finally be learning names of some meals and every day terms to get around...but I hope to soon get hangul down pat. I left out the fire incident at the school...also where I live...i will include that in my next post....to bed my waegook butt goes.