another day...

so it's friday, 5pm, and i'm in a pc bang cuz i still don't have internet at home. i did get a cell phone (a 'hand-uh-pone' in korean) yesterday, and set up a bank account. just gotta wait for the internet at home and i'll be able to upload some pix so you can see what i see... i have to say that there are a ton of signs in english here... and about 1 out of every 3 or 4 has a typo or three. it's pretty funny. and a lot of the stuff doesn't make any sense. like yesterday i was hanging out in myungdong (a shopping area in seoul) and walked by this chicken spot... the logo said "top our chicken" and then the gigantic sign for the restaurant said "to:ur chicken". i was thinkin about it for a bit trying to make sense of it... then realized it just didn't make sense and probably wasn't supposed to anyway.

went to seoul tower yesterday... it's definitely taller that most other sky scraping tourist spots in the world... the space needle wasn't even a competitor! and it was like 100m taller than the tower in canada... anyway, i took some pix there and will upload them when i have some internet... so i guess all the touristy spots are totally spots that couples go and do couply things... korea is the land of couples... it's kinda gross. it's not an obscure thing to see a couple in the 20s or 30s wearing the exact same outfit. they even have couple underwear at the panty shops around here... you walk by the windows and the underwear is hideous... but it matches the guys briefs (aka duh dun duh duns)... oh and another thing. i guess koreans never caught onto the small underwear thing or thongs... the seck-shi panties here are like granny panties with a little bit of lace sewn in around the edges. yea. sexy. and so the couple thing is goin on everywhere. at the seoul tower there's a section of fence where couples buy locks together, write a message on the locks, and then lock them to the fence. if i could read better i woulda had more fun reading the corny messages... but oh well.

stairs. if you don't like stairs, don't come here. i've never been in a city that had more stairs in my life. it's probably why korean people are skinny. except me. but shoot. give me 6 months here and i'm sure i'll drop some weight. the stairs are just ridiculous. i've never walked up and down more stairs in my life. which leads to....

sweat. it's humid and i'm sweating my ass off. it's not even hot yet (so they say) and i'm constantly sweating... like by the time i walk from my apt to school i look like i've been working out for 20 mins... beads of sweat running down my forehead and just dying for water... it's great. but you know what's so great about the hot weather...

cold beer. the beer here sucks. i'm not really keen on the ob, hite, and cass, but on a hot day... once it hits your lips... it's just amazing... and what's more amazing is drinking at a bar through the night and walking home when it's sunny again... it's actually miserable. but the fact that the bars don't ever close is pretty awesome.

anyway, this has been a novel. i think i'm gonna go watch terminator... i'll write more later...