Day 16....

Well, it's Tuesday afternoon for me (for my readers in the Central Time Zone it's now 11 PM), or more precisely 1 PM. So I survived moving my stuff to my new apartment on Sunday and it is much nicer than my old apartment. My new bedroom is around the same size my last apartment was.... yeah. I'll post pics at a later date.

In other news, I went to Seoul on Saturday. I took the "subway" (it's really a cross between a subway and elevated train in that in actual Seoul proper it's a subway but on the outskirts and here in Uijeongbu it's just an elevated train). It was about a 40 min ride, but the real crazy part is how much it costs. One way it cost a total of 1300 won, or about $1.30. Furthermore, they have this thing called a T-money card. Think of it as a rechargeable gift card that lets you avoid buying tickets for the "subway" or paying cash/change to ride the bus. VERY HANDY. The trip to Seoul had no real set purpose or destination other than I wanted to get a watch to replace the one I brought, since it broke on me.... I managed to find a very nice replacement for 10000 won ($10) from a street vendor. However the most amazing thing I saw that day was a traffic conductor. He was dressed like a 1930's gangster or something. He wore a long gray trench coat with black fur lining the collar and a gray and black fedora. They way he directed traffic was more like a weird hand dance or something. We (I was with another teacher who arrived the same time as I did by the name of Mike) shot a video of it on Mike's camera, I'll try to upload that too.

Yesterday I decided to broaden my horizons and go to a Korean bathhouse, again with Mike. It was crazy, but in a good way. The actual bath area had 4 communal tubs (3 with varying temps of hot water and a near freezing plunge pool) , showers lining the wall, two rows of taps to wash yourself at (you don't do it in the pool) and 3 saunas (ranging from VERY HOT to surface of the Sun). Also in the bath house is a barber, a restaurant, a bar, a gym and a row of massage chairs and machine for you feet, where for a mere 100 won ($1) you may get 10 mins of massage. Entrance itself was only 6000 won ($6). Yeah, really awesome in my opinion, but sorry there won't be any pictures from the bathhouse. (I know some of you will be let down by that).