Night/Day #1

I just had my first awkward moment...I google translated "I don't have hot water", "shower", "water", and maybe "cold" and put it on a sticky note and went downstairs to the guard booth. They sort of passed it around and then one guy beckoned me and we came up and he immediately reprimanded me (in a grandfatherly way) about my shoes...whoops! guess ill have to remember to take them off at the door next time...

The point being, thanks google translate!

And, thank God I brought my own towel. I saw two clothes on the kitchen counter and put on in the bathroom as a bathmat before I realized it was a towel...

My next adventure was when the power went out. Well, not really out, but all of the power (excluding the lights) in the main room wasn't working. So I tried the sticky note technique and this time I wasn't so lucky. A bit later I figured out that the outlets in the bathroom worked as well as the ones in the kitchen area. So I skyped the school and she called someone for me to come up here and fix it. Turns out it was just a breaker that needed to be switched.

Nhi (pronounced knee), a Canadian and fellow teacher at Yes Youngdo, dropped by unexpectedly (and thank goodness she did!) and explained some things. Then she showed me how to get to the E-Mart, a 5 storey grocery store/clothing store. Before that I took out some money at the ATM (it will only let you extract $100...bad for me, I wanted to take out more. I will investigate this to see if it was just that ATM or all of them), which was in a little convenience store, and bought my T-money card for the metro.

Couldn't find butter at the e-mart and it seems I could only by a pack of 24 toilet paper rolls, something else I will be investigating...