I'm not that bad...

I always thought I had a bad sense of direction but I'm actually not having trouble getting around, but instead I'm meeting people who're a lot worse than me.
Who woulda thought?

Also a lot of people wake up waaaaaaaaaaay after me, weekdays and weekends, like it's normal. 2:30 pm people are having breakfast (I mean lazy college students of course).

In a sense these people make me feel better but also it's annoying if you want to make plans with them because it's gonna be late.

So yeah I've moved to the new dorm. I found out that here the washing machine is free. What the hell? it cost me W1000 per wash at the last place, and W1000 for the dryer. Here the dryer is Q500. And this place is cheaper... what.
Unfortunately the gym schedule sucks. I think it's 7-10 am, closes until 5pm-11pm. That means mornings don't work for me there, just evenings. But still, beats nothing. 2 nice pingpong tables and lots of people to play with (so I'm told).

ARIRANG

I didn't get many photos because we had to spend most of the KOICA event in a room waiting to go on stage. I thought this would be some large event with tons of foreigners performing but I have no idea what it was now. It seems we we're the only ones besides some Peruvian musician that was really good. The crowd was a bunch of people that looked like embassadors, and then some kids with blue caps and cellphones taking pics of us. GOD there were so many cameras, the pro type. And video. And after singing ARIRANG and Color Esperanza we had photos taken outside in front of a giant bowl of Bibimbab (kfood) and more photos and video (I had to spend like 3 awkard minutes pretending to observe some mayan-looking relic as they filmed me though I have no idea where that's gonna appear). And outside kids were asking us to take pictures with them. I also got interviewed for the Korean Times but I don't know if I really am gonna appear because it was a short interview and I wasn't really prepared for it because we had no idea whatthehell this event really was... but oh well. It was a lot of awkward fun!
I'm not on my computer right now but someone found some pics taken that day on the internet; I'll post them here next time, though they're really bad resolution.

More fun facts.

The streets here are actually dirtier than I thought they would be. Lots of trash, specially on Sundays because that's when people put their trash out but not when it gets picked up. And for some reason you get spontaneous wafts of  sewage-smelling air every 20 minutes.
Though Guate was dirtier, I think it's smellier here, and I'm not talking garlic.

Just a random panorama again.

Just click it and see. 8 shot panorama, the view from sungwook's apartment. The original has mega high resolution and you can even see into the windows (nobody naked though) but this blog has limited resolution )=<

This weekend.

When three guys get together over the weekend, have somewhere to crash, money, and nobody to care what they do, they will probably go out, get drunk, have girls over, get high on heroine and wake up with an ugly unicorn tattoo on their thighs. Pretty wicked right?

Well when Sungwook, Bambi, and Wesley get together over the weekend...

The Photography Club

Today was the introduction meeting for the photography club...
Well... not the most English-friendly club out there so I was very lost. There was a small group of English-speaking foreigners that went too but they didn't last the whole meeting. I didn't understand jack shpit but decided to sit through it anyway in case enlightenment came along the way...

It didn't....

Just throwing in one more photo.

A 4 photo panoramic from Dongdaemun, a popular shopping area. Took it last week but just put it together.

Photos!!

I finally found some adapters yesterday. Fortunately everything I have accepts 240V so I didn't need a transformer. So here are some photos so far. Nothing spectacular yet. Actually not many pictures at all but going out is always a rush so I haven't been taking many photos. When I get more time to be around on my own or with few people just relaxing I'll be taking more!

Irony

So I've had octopus chips, chicken kebabs, beef and noodle buns, fish-shaped sweet bread, random things in a cup with hot sauce, and rice dough sticks in super spicy sauce and I've been fine. I've had a lot of mysterious looking foods with no problem except the occasional burning anus.

Then I go to the college cafe and have me a cream bun. A couple hours later I'm in the hospital because of an allergic reaction... hmmm. I guess I'm not going there again. Luckily there's a hospital right next to the college so I could walk there, and Bambi lives nearby so he arrived quickly to help. It wasn't easy to get help. I could barely even talk because of my throat being swollen and the guy in the hospital was like "I need you to fill out this paper, and this and that and pay 63,000 won" and I was like "I'm DYING here!" and then the doctor I saw was talking on the phone and then after running some tests and shoving a camera up my nose (don't know why) he tells me I'm not having an allergic reaction, my throat just randomly closed, probably asthma.
Ok I know what an allergic reaction is like, and I know what asthma is like. That was allergies.
So after insisting they just give me the damn drugs I had the familiar injection in the ass done. I don't remember it being that painful but at least I'm fine now. I was given a prescription for pills to take after every meal but I think I'll pass, that doctor didn't really know what he was talking about. He did take this really nasty picture of inside my nose though... that was fun.

Anyway I'm meeting sungwook today and he's going to take me to buy my adapters.  Everything I have does 220v so I don't need any transformers. Hopefully I'll be putting up pics tomorrow!

An update

Hello all.
Well I'm not able to get adapters yet so I can't charge any of my electronics. But it's been a few days so I'm just gonna write a few things about so far.

First of all my hands are cold so typing is really hard. Today we walked aimlessly around town and encountered a lot of ice, though it isn't snowing.
But I'm too lazy plus have better things to do than spell check this thing so ignore my mistakes.

Second. It does smell like garlic, But I don't really mind.