1st post - where we live

Hello All,
In time we hope to detail some of our adventures here on this blog. We have now been in Korea for a little over 2 weeks and already have had many experiences we'd love to share. However, I thought that for this first post, I would just give a little description of where we live with some help from Google Earth.

First and Foremost, we are now in the Republic of Korea and (along with about 50 million other people) to call it home. For a year at least.

Here it is. South Korea:

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I have circled Incheon, Daejeon, and Busan. Our flight from San Francisco landed at Seoul-Incheon airport where we were met by the EPIK staff. They transported us by bus the Yousung Hotel in Daejeon, where our orientation program was held. After the orientation, we took another bus to Busan.
Busan is where we will be living and teaching for a year. Here it is:

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Busan has between 3.7 and 4 million people living in it, depending on who you ask. Between 3.700002 and 4.000002 now. The next picture is a closer view of the area in which we live and work:

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Here I marked our apartment building, my middle school, the area where Sarah's middle school is and I also circled the Seomyeon area of Busan. It takes us each about a half hour to get to school on the bus. We take the same bus from our apartment, I have to transfer once, while Sarah stays on the same bus. I'm not sure exactly where Sarah's apartment is, so I circled the general area based on what she told me. You can see my school - Jugam Middle School (in Korean) quite well. Seomyeon is a bustling downtown area where Lotte Department store ( over 10 floors of shopping!) is located, along with tons of street vendors, cafes, bars, shops etc. It takes about 10-15 minutes by bus to reach Seomyeon.
Finally, here is a closer view of where we live:

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Our apartment is right next to an expressway, which provides a pleasurable white noise to lull us to sleep each night. You might have noticed a lot trees around. It may be hard to tell from this picture, but there is a large mountain behind our apartment. Baekyang mountain, under which Baekyang tunnel can take you. There are many paths on the mountain that look great for walking - they are used frequently because people from the apartments have small garden plots terraced on the side of the mountain.

Well, now you know about where Sarah and I live. Unfortunately, we don't have an internet connection in our apartment, so I had to post this at school (hard at work!) However, we have been taking pictures and committing our stories to memory so that we can relay them here in the future.

Peace and Love to all,
-Warren