Yet another week...

Work is the same, so I won't bore you with trivial details.

On the way home from work I stopped at Gubeundari to go to Home Plus. It's a British company I think and has a lot of TESCO stuff there. I think it's better than E-Mart, so I may be stopping there regularly. I bought quite a bit of stuff there that I've been wanting to get and I found chips and hot sauce! Yay! I need to go there again to get a pepper grinder because the pepper I bought at E-Mart didn't have a build in grinder like I thought it would! What am I supposed to do with pepper balls...so I think I'll stop by on my way home tomorrow after work.

Thursday morning I woke up and went to Insadong and walked barefoot and handed out flyers with two other girls and then I went to work. Boy did my feet hurt! And I was only barefoot for like 3 hours! I can't imagine...

Friday after work I stopped off to pick up a book and a bottle of wine that I bought from a guy on Craigslist. That night I went out to a bar with Pete, my co-worker that I go to Korean class with, and we hung out there and I caught the metro home.

Saturday I woke up and went to meet a dude at a metro station to pick up a toaster oven I bought from him for 20,000 won. So now I have a toaster oven...yay! I want to get a microwave, a blender, and a rice cooker, but the rice cookers here are so expensive! I just want what Meg has from Target that's $15 but they don't ship internationally. Sad day. Anyways, then I met Pete and his friend Mike to grab a drink before Korean class. Well, instead of grabbing a drink we went to a market by Jogno 5-ga...it was really neat. It was inside, but there were no doors really. Sort of like a covered market. In the center of it were a bunch of little stands that you could eat at. I want to go back and explore more! There were also a lot of foreign products there and I found out that they have my perfume there! Yay! The bottle of Jack was still too expensive though, so I didn't get it. Basically, Pete and I skipped class and then walked around with Mike. It was pretty crazy around that area because you could buy whatever you wanted, but it would literally be like 3 blocks of stores selling purely stools or lamps. Very random. Then we saw the puppies and kitties part. I had to leave the store because I almost cried...I thought it was sad to see the kitties there. They seemed to be too young to be away from their mothers and there was one in a store we passed that looked like it had literally been driven crazy from being in the cage. Really sad.

Then we went to eat at samgyupsa which is the thing where you cook your own meat on the grill that's in the center of your table. They put a bucket of coals in a hole in the table and then the grill over it. They replace the grill whenever it gets too dirty. We drank something that I can't remember the name of, but it was rice wine. The same stuff I had with Charis and her friend on the night before Easter. After that we went to a bar called Beer Market that had a good variety of beer and we sat at the table with beer in the middle. There's a hole in the middle of the table where they put different beer and ice so you just take out the one you want to drink. After that we went to a bar by Mike's apartment and hung out there. We played darts and some Koreans sang karaoke. A lot of the songs were sung by the Filipino bartender. Apparently a ton of them come to Korea on entertainment visas and sing in bars and stuff. We slept at Mike's on the futon and this morning we went to Smoothie King and then came back home. I immediately took a shower and I cleaned a bit. I need to organize some stuff and correct the kids' essays, so I'm out!