WOOOOAAAHHH...Seoul subway!

I haven't really been up to much the last couple days; just a little running around here and there but mostly trying to stay out of the cold.  Well one of my little runs was to a bookstore that I had read about on-line that has English books.  With all the free time I've had over the last week, and in lieu of leaving my huge LOTR (Lord of the Rings) on the airplane that brought me here, I've needed some new reading material.  I decided today was as good a time as any to run out and try to find something interesting.  I got to the bookstore, and it was pretty awesome.  They had a fair number of English titles.  I picked up Tuesdays with Morrie, which I've since started reading and almost finished. (Looks like another trip is in my near future.) 

Anyway, that's not really what I wanted to talk about.  By the time I had finally decided on my book, which took FOREVER as anyone who knows me well knows that I can't make a decision to save my life, it was almost 7, and I decided it was time to make the trek back home.  Let me just give you a little heads up in case you ever plan on coming to Seoul, do NOT take the subway between 5:30pm and 7:30pm.  It was absolute chaos.  I mean more packed than I ever thought was possible.  The corridors leading to the actual subway were packed from wall to wall with people as far as I could see ahead of me and behind me.  I desperately wanted to get out my camera and take a picture, but I couldn't even open my purse I was so tightly lodged in among all my fellow subway travelers.  We all finally got onto the subway line, and let me just tell you again, it was packed.  I didn't even have to hold on to anything during the ride to my destination, because there were so many of us shoved into such a small space that no one really could have moved had anyone wanted to.  Generally speaking, I don't have a problem with crowds, so I wasn't freaking out or anything like my sister Kristy would have been.  But I have fully learned my lesson, that unless absolutely necessary, choose another time to travel.

So yeah, that was about all the excitement Seoul gave me today.  Oh wait, except I did do my laundry for the first time today, which is a total accomplishment considering all the buttons on the washer are in Korean.  (See picture below.)

 

I'm going to a jjimjilbang (Korean spa, aka place Pamara took Kelsey and I when we visited her in DC) with one of the teachers I work with tomorrow.  I'm so excited.  I'm positive there will be something fun to tell after that experience.  I'm tired so I'm out.

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KendallCooke