Thursday, July 27th
1:48 a.m.
I forgot to mention the AC in my last entry. It works! Actually it has for the last several days. My life seems so much easier now. Hooray for modern technology. . . but it gets really cold in this room now sometimes. . . . Koreans refer to air conditioning as �aircon,� by the way. . . .
One more thing that I found out tonight: I won third place in the essay contest that I entered last week! That means that my essay [Read it here] is going in the yearbook, and I�m getting forty dollars cash! Very useful right now as it doesn't look like any of my teaching jobs are going to pan out. I'm on a very low daily budget, but I still have a lot of shopping to do!
. . . Koreans are really into this thing called �pump dance,� where you step on a different square on the little floor depending on which arrow is moving up the screen. I haven�t tried it yet, but I�ve heard it�s addictive, especially if you�re good at it. Computer games are also very popular. Just like home. :)
It gets dark very early in Korea - always by 8 p.m. . . .
I�ve already visited many parts of Seoul. Namdaemun is a bustling marketplace where I [saw a lot of inexpensive underwear and] adorable children�s clothes. Myong-dong is a very fashionable shopping area. Itaewon is little America, but it�s very dirty and sleazy, especially late at night. [It�s a great place for foreigners to shop, though, because everything is in English, but that convenience comes with a slightly inflated price tag.] Apkujong-dong is the Rodeo Drive of Seoul. Purses started at $1500.00 in a mall that I visited there. I�ve already described Shinchon and Insadong. I still have to visit Tongdaemun, the other great marketplace, and some temples and palaces.
Omigod, a couple of guys who missed curfew just tapped on my window and almost scared me to death! I can�t help them, though. I have bars on my windows because I�m on the ground floor, and I refuse to call the people upstairs and wake them up. They saw a light on in one room, and they managed to get their hands on a ladder, so I guess they�re going to try to climb up. I�ll have to follow up on this tomorrow.
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