A quick update about our lack of updates. I now have installed the parts needed to fix my laptop, and I expect a full recovery. It’ll take a couple more days to download all our backups, but we should be able to resume semi-regular updates soon-ish. Oh, and lots of pictures, I promise. We went to Seoul a few times last weekend, and we’re planning a trip to Suwon this weekend, so there will be much to show and tell. Anyway, on to…
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We’re sorry for the sudden dearth of updates, but I have figured out the computer issue (a bad hard disk I installed earlier this year; that’s what I get for buying Western Digital!!) and we should be back in business soon. In the true spirit of MacGyver (get it?) I’ve managed to jerry-rig something so that the machine gets a few more heartbeats while we wait for the replacement parts to traverse the Pacific. Cross your fingers, people.
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At this point, we’ve been around town enough to make some obersvations about the people around us and one of them is this: children are everywhere! Whenever we go out shopping, to restaurants, or even just walking around, we see tons of kids all over the place. Seriously, I’m beginning to wonder if there aren’t more people here under the age of 12 than over (at least in our area). Now, usually the prescence of youth isn’t something particularly noteworthy, but we’re starting to feel a somewhat bombarded by the little buggers. Most families we see have at least two kids, and we almost never see a couple walking down the street without a little pipsqueak in tow.
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So, something weird is happening between my laptop and the wireless connection we’ve been stealing over the last couple weeks. Needless to say, we won’t be able to get online from home until I figure out what’s going on and how to fix it, and therefore posting has been and will be a litle sparse over the next few days.
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A countdown of the strangest (to our foreign eyes) things we’ve discovered about Korea:
- Trash bags are extremely difficult to find here in Korea. Greg and I looked up and down every aisle at Lotte Mart and Sing Sing Mart. Nothing. Finally (one whole week later) Greg got the brilliant beyond brilliant idea to ask one of the TAs at school and she was kind enough to write something in Korean on a sheet of paper. The rough translation of this message read: Read on
