well, i haven't started packing yet, and my flight leaves on monday morning from detroit. somewhere along the adventure of booking a flight, and inbetweenand the numerous discussions with my travel agent (who, i might add, is a native South Korean, and knows english only as a second language) her interpretation of me saying "I need to be there on February 21st" turned into my travel agent calling me back three days later, proclaiming "congratulations, we found you a flight that leaves on the day you wanted to - the 21st". somewhere near the end of her saying that sentence, there was this dead space in the conversation, where, i'm assuming i was supposed to congratulate her for finding EXACTLY what i asked her for. i'm sure that when my school got their receipt in the mail for my flight - somewhere in the range of 800US for a one-way fare, they decided that the afternoon of the 22nd was just fine....either way, this language thing is going to be more difficult than i thought.....i should remind myself (for who knows how many times..) that i'm teaching esl, and listening skills are going to be the difference in me making a good time in South Korea, and checking off the days until i can teach esl in another country. lets hope that there isn't anything else lost in translation when i arrive in South Korea. i'm hoping that in a city of 10 million inhabitants, and an average of 17,500 people per square kilometer, i'll be able to find someone who speaks good english who lives close to me. i'm thinking that the odds are in my favour.....