These lazy days.

So I've been in Korea for just about a week and a half now and I'm waiting on a few things to go through here so that I can have an Alien Registration Card. This important little piece of plastic has the ablility to make my life a whole lot easier but I'm not sure what exactly it is I'm waiting for to complete the paperwork.

Until then I have no internet access of my own (I'm using the school's right now), no cell phone/home phone, and no bank account for the school to pay me at. As you can imagine this makes some parts of the process of being here frustrating.

And sometime soon I'm supposed to get a washing machine in my apartment. However there isn't a laundromat in the mean time to make my clothes clean so I'll just have to hope that nobody notices when I'm being a little bit dirty.

That isn't to say that everything is bad but one does need to get the complaining out of the way to get to the good stuff.

First my classes which start next week will have no more than 15 students and I believe the average will be about 8 which means I should be able to handle them pretty well.

Next I'm in a city where there are many different food options and I'm starting to believe that I could go the rest of my stay here without ever having the same meal twice if I didn't want to. Their is always korean food, a pretty good Vietnamese restuarant and if I'm in a hurry to wake up at least three coffee shops on the two block walk to work including a Dunkin Donuts.

Their are lots of bars around as well and I've gone to a few and haven't had the same drink twice yet either. One of the bars is a self serve bar and all you have to do is take your empty bottles to the cashier when you leave to pay for them. In the mean time I'm starting to be able to read Korean, however many of the signs have an
English cheat sheet so my practice keeps getting messed up since I always look at that before I've puzzled out the place names.

I start work next week and I'm replacing an Englishman named Kevin whose family is Korean. So he was fluent in both languages before coming here. In the mean time I'm trying to figure out a way to learn the language, either via class or maybe a english speaking barista, I think that will be the hardest part of this year.

I'm still not quite sure on my address in this place but I'll get it soon.