PART ONE OF FOUR BLOG ENTRIES FROM SEOUL............so i leave beautiful, sunny, hot deagu and head north to seoul.... as the train pulls into seoul suddenly the clouds get all darker and heavy rain begins to pour. i had been checking the online forecast a few times, as late as the morning i left, and it only said 'occasional showers'. so somehow i have to try to make it to my guesthouse and dump my backpack. took the subway as far as i could go but the rain was ...

so i finally get internet, cable tv, and a cell phone.. cable tv is $5 and you get 75 channels including about six english ones like cnn international, discovery channel, and a couple of old movie channels. i'm so used to not watching tv and i dont have a remote so i keep forgetting to turn the tv on now! actually a good website is www.livestation.com which has all the international news channels except american (bbc, euronews, DW german, france24, algezera engli...

so i have to start wearing a disguise coz i get off the bus from downtown in my neighbourhood after school and a girl from my school runs up to me at the bus stop, knows my name, and tries to talk in english! i had no classes monday so i snuck out after lunch to goto the immigration office to get my registration card finally. this means now i can get internet and cable tv at home, and the school can pay me the 300,000 won ($250) settlement allowance. no pay yet o...

so today at lunch there was pink rice, and amongst the noise when i was trying to ask why it was pink i thought the teacher kept saying 'blood rice' so i hope it was not something i wasnt supposed to eat! also, kids are following me to homeplus after school calling my name and waving so might have to try going later after school. this week is national exams (nobody told me) so the class bells are all ringing 10 mins early while i am still in the middle of a class...

so the other day in homeplus all the staff stand out in the aisles while they play 'if you're happy and you know it clap your hands' and they do all the hand movements. didnt have my video camera and havent timed it properly when i tried going back with one.now I have my first full weekend, not worried about my apartment, or figuring out the buses, decided to go exploring the main sights in downtown daegu. took one of the local city buses instead of the rapid exp...