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Hi everybody, my name is Tim Unaegbu,
I am your International TEFL Academy video advisor
for South Korea.
And today I just want to do a video on my transition
home to Canada after being away one year in South Korea.
So let's get started.
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What has been the hardest adjustment?
The time difference.
I was a little bit tired when I first came home
just because it's 16 hours ahead in South Korea.
Also, some of the culture stuff and differences
that I've had there has been a little bit of a difference.
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Oh, the food that I missed.
I missed having ribs.
So real ribs from Earl's restaurant,
pull right off the bone.
And also my mom's own cooked spaghetti,
one of my favorite things with some brown beef
and some tomato sauce and onions.
My teachers and some of my students,
they said they always wanted to try that,
so I miss that.
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Some notable differences...
Going to the store, usually you are greeted, say hello,
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Here I come to the store and nobody here...
Being black in Korea, I kind of stood out
and I had the most positive experience.
I got treated like a movie and a superstar and a sports
athlete star, so it was actually really cool.
And now in Canada, which is good, but,
I walk around the streets, I don't know, just like anybody.
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Um, reverse culture shock.
Yes, I definitely experienced reverse culture shock.
Mostly with driving here, the pedestrians
have the right of way, but in Korea,
the car has right of way.
So it was tough getting some adjustments there
as well as eating by yourself here is very common,
in Korea it's not.
And some of the values is different in Korea,
where you are most often trying to save face,
but here in Canada, if you bug somebody,
they're gonna let you know it.
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Am I happy to be home?
Of course, I get to see my family
and all my friends, my mom and my dad are so happy
that I was able to go to Korea and to succeed in my goal
in being debt free, so now I am debt free.
I've been going out, having some dinners,
playing some sports and getting back into my routine.
I do miss Korea a lot, but I think Korea will be
to be continued.
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What is the one thing I miss about Korea?
This is a huge thing for me, is definitely one of the things
I really miss, other than my friends and stuff like that,
okay, still miss you guys.
But it's the music, the K-pop music,
I'm on board, fully on board with them.
I love how the Korean really value music
and dancing and exercising, and that's a little bit
different than North America, where you know,
people at a certain age are often not exercising
as much as they should.
There, they really value their body and life and health,
a lot of that stuff kind of rubbed off on me
and I wanted to make sure I continue here.
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Yes, the sports.
Okay, so what kind of sports do I miss?
I miss all the sports on TV, such as basketball,
soccer, and hockey, I'm able to watch sports every night,
go to the bars with my friend, have some drinks.
I'm very sports orientated and now I can go to the gym
and the gym prices are much cheaper here in Canada.
All right everybody, those are some of the adjustments
I went through, I hope you guys enjoyed my six video series
here for International TEFL Academy,
I am your video ambassador Tim Unaegbu,
and I am signing out.
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