Aside from having just arrived in Seoul and finally getting some sleep, I have a cold! I started to feel it coming on the night before I left and didn’t pay any attention to it, but I have a stuffy nose and a cough. Apart from that I think I’m ok. My apartment is little! Not little like made for Koreans little, just little-one room, my bed is in the corner; across from my “kitchen”; there is a door separating me from my bathroom. The bathroom is fine. It’s all tile and doesn’t have any boundaries. The shower is a part of the overall whole of the bathroom, there’s a drain in the middle of the floor. My apartment floor looks like hardwood but isn’t and it’s heated! It’s customary to remove your shoes upon entering your home or even job-before arriving at my apartment I met my boss at the school I’ll be teaching at and I was asked to remove my shoes. Upon entering my own apartment she told me I needed to take off my shoes. It will take some getting used to. My apartment’s cute and did I mention that it’s small? I’m not sure where I’m going to store my suitcases. I do need to become more familiar with centigrade. Temperatures here are in centigrade and I haven’t converted or used centigrade since high school math and chemistry. My washing machine and thermostat are in Korean; making it a little difficult to decipher. My bed is a twin, and while I had initially thought that I would buy a bigger bed, I have no room, so that’s probably not going to happen. I am really glad that I brought my linens. The sheet and comforter they had on the bed were not very warm and they were Hello Kitty! Not that I have anything against Hello Kitty. When I was younger (9, 10), Tracie and I loved going to the Hello Kitty store at the mall! For those of you who come to visit, I’ll keep the Hello Kitty comforter for you to enjoy.
When I woke up this morning I looked out one of the small windows, in my apartment, and looked out at the street below me-businesses everywhere, restaurants, there’s a gym in the building across the street from my apartment and the gym is on the upper level directly across from my window. It’s a little weird to me being surrounded by all of this…I mean, I lived downtown in Nashville and still lived in a house; everything there is so spread out, whereas here, it’s just spread up!