Changwon Spa

Friday night after being out, I decided to stop by the Earth, Wind and Fire sauna before heading home.  It was nearly 3am, but earlier in the week I’d check and I was pretty sure the place was open 24 hours.  Entered the office building, caught the elevator to the fifth floor, put my shoes [...]

Sidewalk Encounters

There are plenty of foreigners in Changwon.  Many are teachers or engineers for the Korean conglomerates.  There are homemakers with their young children and study abroad students.  To see a non-Asian person walking the street is still a semi-rare occurrence, though; it happens only once or twice per day.  Sometimes, when we encounter each other [...]

Filler, If There Ever Was Any

I haven’t posted in a week, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing.  In fact, I fired off a long series of emails to friends about things I’m not quite ready to put on the blog in an unfilitered form and don’t have the patience to blogify, if you will.  Plus, it’s not that [...]

Apartment Photos

My Wednesday

It had been awhile since I had contacted my sister, so I stayed up last night until almost 3am at the PC bang emailing and chatting with her on the instant messenger.  As a result, didn’t crawl out of bed until 10am this morning, but after a quick shower and a breakfast of eggs, tomato, [...]

Trash in Changwon

I had a ton of energy this morning.  Woke up before 6 and tried to sleep a little longer but I couldn’t.  Went for a jog instead.  It was pretty exhilirating to be up that early in the nippy weather.  There were so many people outside walking and jogging; hadn’t expected such a large number [...]

They’d Better Have My Size

Get paid Tuesday.
Korea is the tracksuit capital of the world.
There are dedicated Puma and Adidas stores here.
My bank account is already quivering in fear.

Getting Creative in Korea

I wrote a song/poem last Monday and Tuesday.  It is silly and low-quality, but I’m proud enough of it now to post the lyrics on my awesome blog!  First, my disclaimers.  This is a first (yet, final) draft.  It’s a little Will Smith-y given all of its euphemisms for sex; I wanted to share it [...]

Benefits of the Bicycle

If you’re like me and you have played Pokemon Blue for Game Boy, then you know hos satisfying it is once you obtain the bicycle.  In my opinion, the primary flaw in that game is that your character moves too slowly, making it a chore to visit all of the towns to capture wild “animals” and [...]

Two Weeks

Tonight marks two weeks that I have lived in South Korea.  As I become more comfortable with the country, it’s becoming increasingly debilitating not having a phone.  There is no landline in my apartment and foreigners must acquire their alien registration card in order to purchase a cell phone.  I hope to do that this [...]