Young Town

Most of my day was spent unpacking, rearranging our home, and swatting mosquitoes. This may seem grotesque but our walls are spotted with small bug sized stains of blood! I think it was a pretty fair fight though, seeing as I look as though I have some odd type of chicken pox! Eddie said I have the big dipper on my face.

Eddie had orientation for school at 3 so while he was off getting "oriented" I spent some time with the Rosetta Stone Korean language education program on my computer. I completed unit one and went over it a couple times which took about a half hour then Eddie called and I walked over to the school to meet up with him and Kenny. It was a very interesting walk (about 10 minutes). Up until now every time I have gone somewhere I was with Eddie and so this time was different. It was very strange being the only white person amoung hundreds of Koreans. To add to my list of differences I was wearing a moderately low cut shirt which turns out is very strange over here. Most women wear turtle-neck style shirts or t-shirts which seems odd because a lot of these women wear very short skirts which counter-acts the whole conservative style they seem to be going for. Still, I never saw a shirt that ventured past the clavical so my next shopping trip will be spent buying MORE conservative clothes. I also noticed that the brightly colored 80's style hoop earrings are not "IN" in Korea so I will need to change my jewelery accordingly. When I met up with Eddie and Kenny we headed off to get some food. The restuarant we choose didn't have any vegetarian options so I went with a small plate of fruit which ended up being very satisfying. After our meal (more of a snack for me) we did some shopping in what Danny calls "Young Town" because lots of young people are there. We bought some much needed bug spray and a NON-STICK cooking pan. (Earlier in the day I had a incident with some tofu that ended in tragedy and later in a yellow bag because the pan was more of a sticky pan than anything.) While walking down the street I saw a cell phone cover I liked and the women held out her hand saying 5,000 won (about $5.50 or so) so I gave her 10,000 won and she gave me back 5,000 right after she gave me my change I noticed the price tag on the package said 2,900 won so I asked her and pointed at the price and she just acted like she didn't understand and just shook her head yes and kind of pushed me along so I let it go. Kenny wanted to go back and argue but with the language barrier I thought it would be easier just to move along seeing as its only like $2. I am a little frustrated and I kind of feel like she took advantage of me but I'm over it.

My internet has been really slow lately so we all decided to stop in a internet cafe thing so Kenny and Eddie are playing starcraft next to me while I type this out tonight we will probably go to bed early cause we have been waking up around 6am each day because it is so bright out(and the church across from the house chimes at 6am every day). Tomorrow Danny is going to ride the subway with me to show me which stops to get off at and buses to ride to get to his house so that should take up a fair portion of my day then maybe we'll see a movie or something who knows!