My Apartment

This is where I live!!

This is the inside of the place I am living at:

And the bathroom:

There is no bathtub. The shower head is just sitting on the wall and I have the whole bathroom to shower in. As you can see, the shampoo and soap is there on the wall. It's quite nice.

It is quite big for one person, in my opinion. When I was told I was in rural South Korea, I envisioned farms everywhere and that I would be able to learn how to grow rice . That is not the case here. My studio apartment is very clean, with a kitchen, fridge, and TV. I got my internet and TV set up Saturday so it is like home now. There is no microwave so I have to cook everything, which is fine. I just have to adjust to the prices and different vegetables offered here.

This is my breakfast:

Yesterday I met some other foreigners that are also in the same area teaching English. We met in the city; this is the road I take to enter the city:

One of the teachers was really nice and showed me around the rest of the city, since I only stuck to the main road. He showed me the Goseong Market, which was so great! They had so many different vegetables, fruits, and even a fish market!! There were so many different kinds of seafood, and freshly caught too. They de-scale it and gut it in front of you.

In South Korea

It is my third day here in Goseong, South Korea. Here are some images from my plane flight and from the motel of my first night.

So far, Korea is great and everyone is really friendly. I think because I look asian they don't assume that I am a foreigner, though I know I dress like one. I don't know many Korean words, only "Hello" and "Thank you". That is enough to get by on so far. Here is my first Korean meal:

It was just a collection of small dishes, but we couldn't finish all of it, it was so much! My co-teacher took me to this traditional restaurant for dinner Friday, my first whole day in Korea. It was small and hard to find, so I don't know if I would be able to return to it, but it is in the same area as the supermarket. Maybe when I get more accustomed to the area I will be able to eat here again. We sat on cushions on the floor. I wasn't used to eating with chopsticks and a spoon, I still find it redundant and strange, but I'll get used to it.

My co-teacher tells me this type of meal used to be only for the upper class and royalty. The lower classes would only get about 4-5 small dishes to eat from. Anyway, it was so delicious!