All Things Korea

Days 2 & 3 of being in Korea:
    These days I went exploring with Nina, Katrina, and John. On Monday we went to the girls school district where there was good shopping. The shopping in Korea is amazing! Everything is really cheap and cute. They also have all sorts of variety. While we were out we stopped in one store and they had head phones for just 9,900 won or under $9.
    While walking the streets to get to the shopping district the one thing I really noticed was how crowed everything is. Everything here is packed together like sardines. Each business has one floor of a building and then there's four or five floors in each of those buildings. The apartment complexes are huge with five or ten buildings that are twenty stories high.
    On Tuesday we went out for supper. This was an experience in itself because you cook the meat yourself. They put charcoal in the table then put a grate on top to cook these big slabs of beef that they bring to you on a plate. They then have a bunch of sides which you can put on lettuce and eat with a piece of meat in one bite. They gave us garlic cloves which reminded me of grandpa and his hatred of garlic.
   Wednesday was pretty uneventful other than breakfast at the dinning hall which was a lovely breakfast burrito. Sounds awesome right....except for the chicken which looked like synthetic crab.  And the pickles. And the salad. And a few other things which I wasn't sure what they were.. all on the same burrito. Another fun thing about Wednesday is that I experienced my first typhoon. It came in the night and I heard it on Thursday morning. Apparently they hardly ever hit here because both of my buddies said the last one was 10 years ago. It was kind of like a sever thunderstorm warning with high winds so actually not as bad as what everyone thinks of when they think typhoon. Just a few branches down and public transit stopped for about thirty minutes.

This is the hallway outside. Everyone's doors are painted a different color. In Korea people leave things outside their doors because people don't ever take things. Women will even leave their purses to save seats at tables in restaurants.

    Last thing.. I took some pictures and a video of my room so you can see what a Korean room looks like. I apologize for the terrible filming.