The Ten Most Important Things I Learned In the Past Two Days

1. How to prepare all different types of Korean food (I made Seung Yeon, the girl I met on the plane, read and translate all of the labels of everything in the grocery store to me) although I probably won’t remember most of it.
2. I AM able to cook chicken all the way through on the first try!
3. How to take the subway to salsa/bachata clubs!
4. The same address (mine specifically) will be written a different way every time you ask a different Korean to write it.
5. Plugging in a DVD player from the United States will cause it to pop and smoke uncontrollably, even for a few minutes after you unplug it and rush it outside.
6. A truck goes through the streets here once a week to “kill all the bugs” (but I literally just killed a mosquito so I don’t think it works very well).
7. There are no rules or guidelines for teachers at private schools in this country.
8. There are two choices for footwear in gyms: gym shoes or slippers. They make you take off any other type of shoe and wear their not-at-all-protective slippers in order to walk by the weights section.
9. Giving blood and urine, as well as taking many other medical tests, is hilarious when you have no idea what anyone around you is saying or why you’re doing whatever they asked you to do.
10. Farting is public is not uncommon (I was told this yesterday and then today a middle-aged woman proved it as I passed her in the street).

... Living in Korea is fun.