You know you're in for a long flight when....

Hi again! I received my travel information yesterday from a travel agent in LA. I'll be flying on United Airlines to Seoul, through Tokyo. I'm leaving on the 4th of July (sadly, no fireworks for me). Upon receiving the flight info, I went to united.com to try to find out some information about the perks of my flight. Well, you know you're in for a long flight when they are planning on showing 7 movies!!! Actually, I don't think all 7 are going to be shown in a row, but the thought of that makes me groan. The first leg of the flight (New York-Tokyo) is 13 hours and 40 mins. Then, I'm in Tokyo for roughly 2 hours before boarding the flight to Seoul. 2 hours and 40 minutes later, I will have arrived at my final destination for the year.

I'm getting really excited! I dropped off my passport and visa application to the Korean consulate today. I feel a bit vulnerable, as I don't have my passport in my possession tonight (there's a 24 hour turn-around for visas to be entered into passports). So, hopefully there won't be an immediate need for me to escape the country tonight!

The rest of the week, I will be making final preparations to go! I need to stock up on certain items: deodorant, italian spices, tortillas, salsa! I'm also going to get some small food (like granola bars). I have one plaguing thought: I'm going to be getting into my apartment around 10pm, I will be hungry the next morning and have no idea where to go to get breakfast! Yikes!

I recently went to the school's website. I found out there are 2 other teachers that will be starting somewhere around the same time as me. That should be nice - we can experience the culture shock together!

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