Monday, October, 27 -Took a long walk, tried to walk to the base of a mountain, ran out of time. But found some cool stuff, like a mini street market, some interesting looking restaurants, and also just expanded my world in walking distance. I need a nightstand.
Tuesday, October 28 - Went to see “Second Hand Wedding”, part of the Seoul International Family Film Festival with Julia (one the Korean teachers) and Sally. Julia had free tickets so we went in the morning before school. Ordered more kimbob, was supposed to teach a speaking class, but no kids showed up. Sally and I went to a restaurant where the food was grilled in front of us and we made our own lettuce wraps, almost like BBQ but not quite, very Korean though.
On Wendesday, I went grocery shopping, tried to be adventurous in my choices, tried to cook meal that failed, and I have lots left that I don’t want to eat. Bought shampoo and conditional at a beauty store and got free lotion samples and three (3!) full bars of “beauty” soap. I love all the free stuff here; each meal at a restaurant comes with all sorts of extra little dishes, free soap, the school gives us free instant coffee and instant mocha (normally I hate instant anything, but in this case it’s awesome because of the little individual packages, with the sugar already in the package. So cool, and way too sweet, but also really small servings, the paper cups a just a little bit bigger than the Dixie cups at home. I also bought a hairbrush that is called “The Cock”, I’m not kidding, nor do I understand, but I do find if funny.
The main reason my meal failed was that I bought a food thing that looked like a tomato but I don’t think it actually was a tomato. I thought that maybe the tomatoes looked different in Korea and they were right next to the cherry tomatoes in the grocery store. Anyway, the not actually tomato tomato sauce that I concocted was pretty much really sick. I think it may have been some sort of fruit (and yes I am aware that tomatoes are actually a fruit too, blah blah blah, go be a know-it-all somewhere else). I flushed the leftovers, dad style, and hoped that Korean plumbing could handle it. No disasters yet, but in a unrelated toilet problem, my sit always comes off, I have to fix it almost every time I use the toilet, it has lead to a few distressing moments and much slipping at inopportune times.
Suddenly I find myself without Internet. Suddenly I am cut of from my family. Suddenly I am depraved of my main source of entertainment. Suddenly I have a great desire to post on my blog. I discovered on Tuesday night that the Internet signal that I was using was no longer available. I had a slight panic attack and hoped that it would be fixed in the morning. No such luck, whomever I was stealing from got wise and protected their signal. It was too good to last. Unfortunately, I can’t get my own legal Internet until I have a registration card. I hope that will happen soon, I guess I should talk to Mr. Park. I believe that he is in charge of such things. (I discovered that he is in fact in charge of such things and collected the necessary items from me on Thursday to go to the immigration office on Friday; I should have my card in a week or so.)
After a whole 24 hours with out making contact with the Canadian world, I finally got online at school during my break. I had three emails, one from Sally, one from the Winnipeg Public Library, and one from my Dad. I see Sally everyday, she was just emailing me a link. I have library material due soon, and my Dad doesn’t even check his email everyday. On Facebook, I had two whole messages. Bryan sent me link and Sarah told me about her potential job. No access for 24 hours and nobody missed me. I informed the necessary people about the lack of access for the near future and figured that nobody else will miss me.
I usually have to eat supper at school, the easiest, cheapest, and most convenient thing is Ramon noodles. The other teachers have been making fun of my noodles eaten daily. I’m not like them, I don’t live with a mother or mother in law who cooks for me. That’s all I’m saying is all. And Mr. Kim told me the noodles weren’t good for my health. So to avoid ridicule today, I just brought some fresh vegetables for snack. I waited until I got home to eat my noodles. But what is home without Internet. I have to entertain myself, no more Firefly or Gossip Girl to keep me company. I’ll bring my laptop to school tomorrow; perhaps they have wireless that I can use. At least I will be able to post this blog. I have to eat Ramon noodles now.
Desirae
October 30, 2008
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2 comments:
Dad would be proud of you for flushing the left-overs instead of leaving them in the fridge to get gross and mouldy....i'm sure he smiled as he read that...
Dee! Don't feel sad. I did notice that you hadn't updated your blog in a couple of days and I was a little upset until Jamie informed me that you were stealing internet and no longer had access at your apartment. I've been checking daily to see if you've posted anything and was incredibly happy to see that there were 3 posts just sitting here waiting for me to read. I hope you don't stop writing these the whole time you are out in Korea. Are you sure your little purchase really is a hairbrush? There aren't any places for batteries in this contraption are there?
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