Seoul Tomorrow
Today and yesterday were do-nothing days.
Yesterday I went to church with Daniel and his family. It was the same as American church except it was in Korean. Nothing unexpected happened and I felt very comfortable there. The church was actually on the 7th floor of some building, and at the end of the service they opened a curtain and you could see out over the city. Definitely not something that happens at my church.
After church Daniel, two of his friends, and I went out to eat at some Japanese restaurant. I had some sort of fried pork which was good. With some very small exceptions, all the food I have had here has been excellent. I think I’ve already said that, but who cares. After eating, we went to a PC bang (PC room). The concept of a PC bang is very simple: you pay very little money to use a computer for however long you’d like. The rates start at 1,000 won/hour (around a dollar an hour). There are a ton of computers crammed into the room and all have tons of video games installed on them so you can play. Most games required accounts, however, and since I don’t have accounts for any of the Korean versions of the games, I couldn’t play. That was okay, though, because I had the rest of the internet to browse. The computer itself keeps track of how long you have used it, so when you are done you take a card you were given to the front desk. They scan it and you pay them for whatever you owe. We stayed for a little over an hour, so I had to pay 1,200 won which is equivalent to $1.20. Not too bad I’d say. The room itself is dark and noisy and smells of cigarette smoke because a ton of people in Korea smoke, and many do it here.
Once we were finished with the PC bang, we came back home and did a lot of nothing. Daniel’s parents were gone, so his sister made us some really western dinner with pasta and some other stuff. Nothing else really happened that night.
Today I woke up and had breakfast with Daniel and his sister while watching Oprah. The episode was about eating healthy. I don’t know why I chose to include that. After breakfast nothing really happened until lunch. I don’t even remember what we had, but it included meat. It was some sort of kalbi, I think. As I said, I don’t really remember.
After lunch Daniel and I went to rent a movie to watch. We ended up getting a movie called “The King’s Man”. It was pretty good, but it had a lot of gay stuff in it. Not as bad as Brokeback Mountain, but certainly worse than a lot of other movies.
About ten minutes after we finished the movie, Daniel, his sister and mom, and I met his dad at a restaurant across the street. We had some very good pork kalbi there (see photographs on flickr). Since we ate I have been uploading pictures to the web and listening to Radiohead. Daniel went to meet a friend, his parents are hanging out with some of their friends here, and I think his sister is watching the movie we rented.
I don’t know what I’m going to do for the rest of the night. I’ll probably go to bed early since we have to get up somewhat early tomorrow morning as we are going to Seoul tomorrow. I’m really excited about going to Seoul. We are going to see some historical sites and do a lot of shopping. I’m more excited about the shopping than the historical sites, but both will be fun. I haven’t spent much money here yet, so I will have plenty to buy things with there. I’ll bring my laptop there, so I shall be able to update still. Woooooot.