From Korea to Mozambique

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Where I was before Mozambique:

Gyeseong Girls 

High School

Myongdong, Seoul, South Korea

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I have found a few interesting Korean cultural points that I didn't know were such a part of my before I got here and realized how Korean I had become:

1. I keep bowing to people...no joke.

2. I expect to be introduced to my neighbors and colleagues by other people. Here, I am expected to take the initiative and do it myself. I have to push myself out there and re-learn that it is fine to be direct.

3. One Korean word for yes is pronounced like "neigh". I think it is hilarious how I keep saying it here. Just today I had many students come by my office by mistake thinking it was still ocupied by the previous professor. I told them in perfect Portuguese that he moved to the next set of offices down the hall. They thanked me, and then I said "neigh!" I wonder what they thought I said?

I wonder what other Korean things will pop up? I am looking for Kimchi in the foreign supermarket. :)