Britt and I have been on our own for the weekend, a true test of our skills. Saturday we ventured to E-mart, which is similar to Walmart. We tested the Korean skills we have learned so far with the taxi driver, which I have to say went very well. When we got to E-mart, our Korean skills were not so good. We were looking for converter plugs, but the guy who was helping us really had no idea what we were saying. He eventually told us to try Hi-mart, so we tested the Korean skills with another taxi and arrived at Hi-mart. The guy there REALLY had NO idea what we were looking for, but after about 30 minutes or searching we found what we were looking for.
After what we deemed as a successful afternoon outing, we decided last night we would try to venture to Pizza Hut. We tried the skills with another taxi, going to Pija Hut (Korean's don't have z in their alphabet). We thought we were on a good track, but when the taxi stopped we were at Outback. Not really sure how you get Outback from Pizza Hut, but we eventually found our way to Pizza Hut (approximately 3 blocks up the street on the other side of the highway). The pizza was the same as home, they had some funky ones but we stuck to veggie. It is pretty interesting to watch Korean's try to use a knife and fork. They are so use to eating with chop sticks that they pretty much use their fork and knife the same way. Also meals here are very communal. One person will get a plate and everyone will pick off of it. Drinks are the same way, if there are 3 people at the table there will be one drink with 3 straws. I have to say I enjoy the "picking" off other peoples plates.
Today, Sunday we stayed pretty low key. We had lunch at a little cafe, and organized our luggage a little better. Similar to home, not everything was open today and the places that were opened at noon. We will be in training Monday - Wednesday, and then relocating to our actual apartment in Gumi. We start work on Thursday which I am pretty excited about. So far from what I have seen it should be a joke. No more then 13 kids in a class, and all the kids are very well behaved. They are pretty much robots. You read a sentence, then they repeat in sync.
Pretty low key weekend, but it was nice to rest and get organized for the week coming. Things should get busy for us starting tomorrow.