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[lithium]

Why are you new teaches-to-be so excited about coming to Korea? I can't say that I was particularly excited, it was just a career move.

[frankly speaking]

New culture, new language, new experiences. I think most people are excited and maybe a little nervous with every big change in their life. For many I suspect it is their first time living abroad.

When I first came over, I actually changed my sleeping habbits so that I would adjust to the time zone better. I was quite excited and looking forward to many new things.

I do think that your post sounds quite arrogant. "YOU NEW TEACHERS" you were new once too and probably not that long ago.

[nourozi]

Hes a crusty old man. Look at his profile pic. If you can't get excited about living in an extremely foreign land for the first time then what do you get excited about?

[Bucky]

I'm scared to death, quite frankly.

The only things I'm excited about:
-being in tech geek heaven
-DMZ tour

That's about it.

[Darkray16]

actually almost everything here is more expensive than back home.

Xbox 360s, PS3s, computer hardware(netbooks, ram, graphics cards, monitors), NDS, digital cameras, are all much cheaper back in the States. I don't mean in the retail stores where they charge idiots huge premiums, I mean places like newegg.com, craigslist.com, or various sources.

The closest they got here is gmarket, and the shit on there is still noticeably more expensive than back home.

One thing great here about tech is that k models at the tech exhibits holding the hardware are way hotter... that's about it.

[Mr. BlackCat]

Get off my lawn!!!

For those of us under 80, I can totally recall how I felt coming over here. I moved between different lingual environments (and cities) in North America before living in Europe, and then coming over here and I was still excitied.

I was excited because it was totally a foreign land, nothing I've experienced. I expected Mars and I got...well, Korea. It's still Earth, people are the same everywhere. Take care of your family, eat good food, have fun. What those things mean might be slightly differently from what you're used to. That's all.

Plus starting a new job. I still get that weird feeling going into a new job, regardless of where it is. If you've never taught before - I had but I didn't have my 'own' class as it were- it could be very exciting.

Jesus, if it's not exciting then why did you come here? Career move? Really? Moving to a different continent to do a job you never did (even if you were a teacher back home) was really just like going next door to the next company? Or are you being facetious? So hard to tell these days.

[gartonator]

I try to make a living editing and producing tv/film, but sometimes I try to make documentaries that put me deep in debt. That was the reason I first came to Korea for 1 year in 2006.

Now another doc failed last fall, and 2009 has sucked azz, so I'm probably going to be back again soon.

What am I excited about? I love the food ever since I took Tae Kwon Do classes when I was 10, and no matter how much Korean food you think you know before visiting, there is so much food that is near impossible to find outside korea (or at least asia). I play starcraft, so this is like a golf player visiting scotland or something. I like to drink, get stupid and try to get laid sometimes, plenty of that with all the recent college grads in the bigger cities. I like that when I usually fail at getting laid, I can always stumble into a favorite massage parlor at 9am.

I want to explore the korean media/tv/film market this time... strangely I'd probably have my best shot as a 'white actor' but have hopes of getting into video dj type stuff in the seoul/busan underground (does busan have an underground?) we'll see

The foreign experience is pretty exciting, too... my hagwon owner would beat some kids 100 times a day! Try going to a supermarket at 9pm on friday. Seasons are intense, yellow dust in the spring, sweat in the summer, wind in the winter, fall is beautiful

[alphakennyone]

I wish I were excited. Unfortunately this will be the third time I will be landing in Korea with a new contract in hand. It's old hat. Too bad I couldn't land the job I wanted in China.

[AgentM]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[typo]

[JasperTeach]

I'm excited to find financial freedom, fifty new friends and fifty new bars

[Bucky]

[AgentM]

[Bucky]