Aloha from Hawaii

Well, I survived day one of my trip to Korea.  All went very smoothly, but it has been a very long day and now I am exhausted.  All of my luggage made it and I was able to find the storage people and get a shuttle to my hostel.  I am writing this post from Waikiki where I have spent the past few hours lying on the beach, exploring the city, and watching the surfers.  It was a great afternoon, but I definitely need to come back here sometime.  Hawaii is so beautiful and I'm really glad I had a chance to stop and see it.  Don't worry, pictures will be coming soon. :)  Even the flight here was fun...full of "aloha"s and "mahalo"s.  During the flight we also played the halfway to Hawaii game where we had to guess what time to the second, in Hawaii time, we were going to arrive on the island.  I guessed 10:16.40 AM and was only off by 18 seconds...and I didn't win!  Oh well, I think the prize was a gift certificate to a common gift shop here so I probably couldn't have used it anyway.  Tomorrow I leave at 10:30 Hawaii time and arrive at 1:30 Korea time...a day later!  That will be weird, but because it is almost a full day it shouldn't affect me too much.  I am anxious to get there to see the city and meet the people I will be working with.  I won't have to wait much longer now, though!  Aloha!