Staycation

Costco Experience
Basically, my Korean Costco experience wasn’t too different from my regular American Costco experience, with the minor exception of Hangul EVERYWHERE! And of course, they differentiated between US sizes and Western sizes. I will definitely not be going to Costco for cheap clothes (the highest US size they go to is a size 7!), unless I lose a drastic amount of weight. It was nice, though. They gave out free samples of food (so I’ll definitely always go when I’m hungry), and they had live fish! I don’t think the US stores have live fish (but I could be wrong). Oh, there is one difference that I noticed right away… they sell Fendi and Prada purses!! They supposedly charge a luxury tax, but still, that’s pretty crazy. One more sign of how Asia is designer obsessed.

Vacation:
Basically my vacation time was spent exploring Chilgok and staying inside cleaning my apartment. A LOT of time was spent indoors. It was insanely hot, and supposedly it hasn’t even hit the hottest temperature yet. I finally found a bank, and exchanged money. Then I found these faux French bakeries, which were delicious. Yesterday I went down to downtown Daegu. I started off at Camp Walker, where there were massive amounts of Americans (I was in shock!) and then I wandered around trying to find a cell phone store (failed, all of them were closed). I did manage to find this DVD shop with English DVDs, pirated of course, for cheap. They have this frequent user card, which I got. I tried finding this Canadian restaurant, which I couldn’t, so I ended up taking a taxi to the middle of Rodeo St to go find this English bookstore. I couldn’t find it on my own, so I grabbed the first Western looking people I could find and asked them. Turns out they were heading that way, so I tagged along. I made friends, yay! Haha. One of the guys made me a pair of earrings for free (there was a craft fair at the bookstore), and the other gave me advice on living in Korea. The bookstore had amazing chili, made to order (so glad it wasn’t spicy!). Then I basically just wandered around, taking pictures.

Yup, not a very interesting vacation. I was too scared of public transportation to try risking getting to Seoul, especially when taxi drivers seem to have a hard enough time finding my neighborhood in the same city!

Sorry this is short! My neighbors wised up to the fact that I was mooching off their internet, so I no longer have internet at home, at least not for the next month. It's practically impossible for foreigners to get anything here without an Alien Registration Card, which I can't get for at least 3 weeks. Le sigh. But I'll write my posts, and then post them when I go to the cafe in the morning for my coffee.

Off to work!