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Snowkr · Joined: 03 Jun 2005

For those of you attending GEPIK orientation next week...

how are you all getting there? Just curious. It seems that I'm kind of on my own to get to the station where the bus is supposed to pick us up, 10:30am, is it?
My map is in Korean. Guess it's good practice.. I've been trying to learn to read Korean.

In any case, is it unreasonable for me to ask my school to arrange transportation for me?

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

Not at all. My school was going to drive me there and pick me up. If I had gone.

mts07 · Joined: 01 Jul 2007

have you been given information on the place and time you have to be there?

So far, I havent been given any information in the slightest.

I dont know where it is, how to get there, what time I have to be there, what to bring etc etc.

bish · Joined: 09 Jun 2007

heard nothing about this. when i try to contact gepik there is out of office replies. where does the bus go from?

Snowkr · Joined: 03 Jun 2005

To my knowledge there is a bus picking up all the teachers at a station in Suwon outside the second gate. This bus supposedly will be there at 10:30am to transport teachers to the resort for check-in. I don't know of anything that we are supposed to bring. I don't even have my passport at the moment. It's still in the immigration office where my alien card is being processed.

I really think the school should be required to see that you get there safely and on time, but it seems as if not all schools are doing this.

icicle · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Location: Gyeonggi do Korea

The minimum that I would expect to happen would be the school making sure that you know exactly how to get to the Hotel. And not expecting you to work that out for yourself - especially when it is not somewhere that you have been before - or you are new in your area.

That is what mine has been doing today - I do know one way to get from where I am to Suwon which is by bus to the subway and then subway - which takes about 20 min on bus and then 104 minutes on the subway - but it is less if you do it by road - so they think that there is a bus which would be faster (and it is true that one or even two buses would be better than travelling on 4 different subway lines) - But I am much more familiar with planning trips using the subway than with the bus - other than the bus I catch to get to Moran or Jamsil. I think there is at least a part of me which thinks that the subway would not be too bad - because I am familiar with it and changing lines so that I know that I will get there safetly - and catching a bus where I need to recognise the place to get off when I have never been there before and where announcements are all in Korean - is a little more daunting .... So I will see how I feel after I know the options ... (I think some of my hesitation with the bus is linked to the fact that I had a bad experience in getting lost in my first month here ... ) ... If I can find out more about the bus option and where it actually leaves from I may well take that option ... especially as it could potentially cut a lot of time (more than half I think from the one time I have driven to Suwon) from the trip.

I don't mind my school expecting me to get there myself ... We don't have to be there early so there is time to travel ... But then I do also know that I am closer to Suwon than many of you are ... Even though it is over 2 hours by the bus/subway option it is only around an hour by road ... thanks to some expressways ... But then I have also been in Korea for almost 6 months now ... as one of the people who were cancelled from the last orientation with numbers ... and for the last orientation my school and another school had got together because they both had new teachers and the vice-principal of the other school was going to drive us to the Hotel ...

Icicle

Snowkr · Joined: 03 Jun 2005

I think my school expects me to find my way there using a map and the public transport just like everyone else. They told me what stations to get on and off at. It doesn't seem too difficult. I don't have to change lines... just the blue line all the way to Suwon.

Then after that, I have to make sure I find the station and go out of the correct gate to find this bus that is supposed to be waiting there at 10:30

I guess I just feel like my school should cover the cost of all this traveling. It will cost quite a lot to get a taxi from my home to the subway station. Oh well...
I guess it's still good experience for me. I need to learn how to get around on my own.

Anyone else getting on the blue line at Sok-gye? It's the beginning of the blue line? If so, I'd love to meet up with you! Please PM me!

Binch Lover · Joined: 25 Jul 2005

Waaa Waaa Waaa Mummy, Mummy hold my hand!!!!!!!

Snowkr · Joined: 03 Jun 2005

OMG

Grow up, already...

icicle · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Location: Gyeonggi do Korea

Lonewolf · Joined: 02 Feb 2003

http://www.smrt.co.kr/english_smrt/cyberstation_smrt/cyberstation.jsp

The suwon station is on the blue line number 1 But the stop is ByeongJeom exit 1. Suwon University exit the Lavied'or bus is suppose to be there.

wylies99 · Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: I'm one cool cat!

RedRob · Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Location: Narnia

Binch, they are going to an ORIENTATION.
This means they are fresh off the plane.
Cut 'em some slack.

icicle · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Location: Gyeonggi do Korea

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand