Letters from Korea 1: Arrival

"Letters from Korea" are emails i sent to my parents and/or other well wishers. They have a bit of a personal tone and might have some boring things that count as more "business" or even have some content that may not make much sense to anyone it wasn't originally written to but i was really tired and settling my first few days, so these might be my only record at some times. they may or may not be cleaned or edited for our viewing audience, but i didn't leave anything so personal that it shouldn't be on the net.

this letter was to my parents on the first night:

I'm in my room at Sookmyung now. Had dinner. really tired. I haven't met my roommate yet, but she does exist. i'm pretty sure airport security took my laundry detergent. suck. 



Miranda is now living in the international house. she said they moved her because of something to do with the monsoon season. I live two doors down though and they didn't move me, so i can't fathom why. but she gets a kitchen and a lounge now, so i guess i should be happy for her. we live on top of a giant hill, so even though our building has an elevator (and i'm on the top floor), i'll get my exercise. threre's also like twelve convenience stores/markets in sight of our front doors. i guess i won't starve after all. and they all have a distinct "ramen section." It's also REALLY humid. aircon FTW.



I think i'm gonna need a voltage converter after all. my rice cooker is only 120v. gonna need to find an electronics store.



net connection might be iffy. there's ethernet in the room, but i don't know how to make it connect. right now i'm on three-bar wireless, which is pretty good, but it seems to have similar stability issues to the connection at home, though perhaps more reliable. i guess it's only randomly gone out in one instance so far. i think it's also a bit slow, so we'll have to see how it handles skype. there's an orientation tomorrow. i hope they tell us how to get the ethernet to work.



i'm also thinking of adding this to my nagoya blog. we'll see.



i don't know what else to say. i'm almost falling asleep here. i think it's nap time.



later,

-kat