First Weekend in Retrospect

It's Sunday evening now, and The Bourne Ultimatum is on TV (the first decent program yet). It's pretty remarkable I can get western tv channels in my apartment. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to sign up for internet yet, as I still lack many basic rights without my Alien Registration Card (ARC). On the plus side, I'll be getting the ARC this week and my neighbors wi-fi is as strong as ever. On Friday night I went to the neighboring city with a teacher I met at a workshop earlier this week, and had a fun time picking all the veteran teachers' brain's for knowledge. There was plenty to be had.
Saturday I successfully traveled by the Seoul Subway system to another neighboring city named Ansan (I'm not really sure where cities start and end here, they just seem to continue on forever). There, I joined my next door neighbor from childhood, Chris Kamrath, who is here on his second year. His friends were all very accommodating. It's the time of year when there are many teachers coming and going, and Chris' friend was leaving in a week. To celebrate, his friend organized a very well put together bike tour around the city, complete with checkpoints, challenges (usually involving drink), and fun. Imagine seeing 30 Asians bike through your neighborhood (it probably was much weirder for the Koreans seeing all of us). All in all, good exercise and a good opportunity to meet new people from all over the area. I did some shopping this afternoon at Home Plus, which is basically a Target/Macy's combined with a grocery store. It's a scary place for a white man to be on a weekend. Very busy, even considering the high density of the population in my province.

Below is a video of the apartment. Sorry for the poor quality, I had to compress the file to be able to upload it.