Today I made it to 4AM, woohoo!!! I woke up again to my pixie stick of coffee. and very rested. (Seriously, I have instant coffee that comes in a pixie stick and has some sweet flavor added to it) Mark took more than half of the stuffing out of all our pillows and it was a much more pleasant night in bed. The beds here are futons, pretty hard ones, and they don't use sheets, Fortunately I had a heads up, and this is the one luxury I brought. (I should have listened to Skye and brought coffee too.)
Anyhow, I was mistaken and thought we were in the big city of Uijongbu, actually we are in the suburbs. Yesterday we took the bus into the actual city, which is a bit like Las Vegas. I took a couple pictures and will post them on the blog today. coloradoweinhold.blogspot.com
I also took pictures of the inside of out apartment. It is pretty modest but they gave us 3 rooms instead of the 2 I had originally agreed to, I think they remodeled the apartment too as the fridge and furniture are new. We live on the 6th floor, the top, and our apartment takes up the entire floor, about 800 square feet maybe. It looks like there are 2 apartments on all the the floors, except the 1st, which is a classroom. We "met" the instructor yesterday. She was by the elevator when Mark and I arrived soaked from being in the monsoon rains. She took one look at us and inquired where our umbrells were. Mark just smiled and shrugged his shoulders. I think she was scolding us, as she onlyspoke Korean, and told us were going to get a cough. Needless to say, we bought 2 umbrellas yesterday.
In Uijongbu everyone carried an umbrella. It seemed a little dangerous as people walk so fast and close to eachother here. I swear, I saw two people with patches over their eye, and it had to be from getting poked. Also, I noted how we were extremely under dressed. Everyone dresses up here and ALL the women wear heels, except the seniors of course. the wise ones . I'll compare notes when we go to Seoul today. But the funniest thing of all, is that the young people wear shirts with English sayings on them in big bold letters. They must be either translated directly from Korean or someone tries to copy the letters and doesn't know our alphabet. A couple examples would be: "your pacel or mine?", "the church jesus wants", and Aisha's favorite "plastic bag dispenser" we all got a good laugh reading their shirts that they wore so proudly.
Well its almost 5:00 and I'm going to try and do some Yoga here in the dark. (I've got my headlamp, don't worry)
Love you all,
Nannette.
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