Hi again!
It seems that the weekend is always busy, which is good because that's what I'm used to from home as well. On Thursday night the school that I work at had a dinner for all of the faculty. We went to a buffet very near my house. I am not always one for buffets, having been inducted by Old Country Buffet at home where everything looks different but somehow tastes exactly the same. This was different. They had all sorts of delightful things, sushi (best that I've had in Korea so far), pizza (why waste valuable space in my stomach when there are so many other things to have?) spaghetti, beef bulgogi, shrimp, and a variety of meats and seafood cooked to order.
This is my friend Hi-Jun. And this is Yu-Yu.
Both of whom work at the school with me and have been very friendly and helpful!
The pic below shows my first attempt at potato soup in Korea. I tried to mash up some of the potato bits to get a little more of a creamy consistency but no go. It still tasted very good. Very near to what I would make at home, which is extremely comforting.
In fact, I liked it so much that I made it again, better in fact, yesterday for lunch.
The photo above shows the view that is outside the end of my hallway. There is a little balcony out there, which is lovely. However I think that people have put their food waste out there, it smells fishy (even in 50 degree weather) and I saw little bones everywhere in the soil. Eww. I can't imagine that will smell very good once it gets nice and humid and hot. Oh well, I will hope for the best.
The photo below shows the balcony view into the hallway of my floor.
I live about halfway down on the left.
I went for a two hour walk yesterday, this is one of the main roads as I got closer to the river. Those trees are a little creepy if you ask me. I am definitely glad that I went this route though, I found a Daiso, which is sort of like a dollar store. They definitely had some things that my local grocery store doesn't have, or at least they had them cheaper. :) I will most likely be heading there for things as the weeks progress.
These boys were really funny, they had been biking as I walked across the bridge. I was trying to get some pictures looking to the south (where the river meets the sea). If you have a chance and want to get an idea of where I was, you can go to google maps, type saha-gu, busan, south korea (or just copy and paste). The road is marked as 2 and I headed west to the island, then back. Anyways, the boys were making faces and silly gestures at the oncoming traffic. Definitely a dangerous idea, but it was not my place to say anything, so I just laughed and prayed that they wouldn't hurt themselves.
This picture shows the mountain that I live on. In fact you can see the school that I work at, which is kind of exciting to me for some reason. The building in the middle of the picture is marked Park 103. Just to the left of where those words are is the middle school that I work at.
This is interesting to my MN friends and family because 3M is a MN company! These are little hooks that stick to the wall, make it unnecessary to make holes in the wall.
Above is a picture of the school that I work at. This is taken from the 6th floor (the floor I live on) of my apartment building. I at least live on the opposite side of the apartment building, so I don't have to see it all the time.
The pic below is also taken from my floor of my apartment building. This is a little store that I go to nearly every day. There is a woman there who is really nice and we always giggle a little bit about how I just don't understand any Korean. We do manage to communicate a little bit, today she said something about how long my hair was. It sounded like something nice, so I'll just think that it was. Anways, I buy my water here. I could get it for cheaper (think $0.25 cheaper) at the bottom of the hill, but that would require bringing at least 1-2 2L bottles up the mountain to my apartment every day. It is much more convenient to stop and get them at this little shop. :)
I did make it out last night to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. There was a bar on Gwangali Beach called Beached that is run by New Zealanders or Kiwis. I don't think that they were quite prepared for the takeover that happened. In fact, I felt kind of bad for the bartenders, and nearly wished that they would let me stand in the corner and pour beers for them. At least then I would have had a little personal space. The place was overrun with Westerners. I had no intention of getting crazy and wanted to enjoy seeing some of my friends from orientation who I haven't yet seen in Busan. It was so wild in the bar that at least half of the people were buying beer from the 7-11 or Family Mart (nearly the same thing) and drinking it on the beach across the street. I myself moved out to the beach after purchasing a Guinness at said 7-11. It was a little chilly, but much more of a relaxed atmosphere.
It was a great St. Patrick's Day!
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