Spent this afternoon soaking up some more Korean culture around the neighborhood. Also, all those things you heard about how dangerous the Korean streets are to pedestrians?...THEY ARE ALL TRUE. If you are ever crossing a street, path, alley, or crosswalk in Korea you must first look both ways before crossing...then, AS you are stepping off the curb LOOK BOTH WAYS AGAIN. Because chances are, a speeding car with a harassed angry old Asian man in it will come screeching around the corner just as you step off it- and you better haul ass and double-time it back up that curb or you will be a (insert name here) pancake in no time flat T.T I have never feared for my life so many times in 3 hours as I did today on my walk. How they don't all die daily is my question...they must be born with innate crazy driver senses we don't have. Although the drivers in Texas could give them a run for their money.
Needed some things to aid in my existence within my little Asian cave for the next month, so on my friend 다정's advice I set out for 다이소 (Daiso). Think the 99 cent store meets Ross. It was HEAVENLY. I had so much fun :))) Obviously, on my trek there I read my map wrong and took off in the OPPOSITE way where I wanted to go so I was going the wrong way for a good hour. No wonder all the Korean women are so skinny, the streets are all up and down and up and back down again. Its like straight hiking...with a 101's worth of whizzing cars flying by your side continuously.
Needed some things to aid in my existence within my little Asian cave for the next month, so on my friend 다정's advice I set out for 다이소 (Daiso). Think the 99 cent store meets Ross. It was HEAVENLY. I had so much fun :))) Obviously, on my trek there I read my map wrong and took off in the OPPOSITE way where I wanted to go so I was going the wrong way for a good hour. No wonder all the Korean women are so skinny, the streets are all up and down and up and back down again. Its like straight hiking...with a 101's worth of whizzing cars flying by your side continuously.
Bought some useful stuff like a washboard and a bar of legit detergent soap to wash my clothes (since there are no laundromats in Korea and there's no way I'm going to have my bras and undies dry-cleaned...). Also bought some less useful stuff, but still awesome! See: the heart stickers above. They're well, you know...I just REALLY LIKED THEM 0:)
I managed to spot a Korean Burger King and McDonalds as well on my hike/stroll/walk/evasion of speeding cars intent on flattening me. And this cool little place tucked in a little niche called Mad For Garlic! The entrance was this narrow walkway that sloped down so steeply that if you look in from the top, you can see the ceiling halfway down your field of vision. I didn't go in, but I WILL :) Another day. So many places, plenty of time ^^