Hei everyone. This was a restful and remarkably uneventful week. I truly don't have much to say about it. If you choose to read this post and are super bored, well, I warned you in advance! If you're looking for riveting content and exciting Korean shenanigans, abandon ship now!
If you're still with me, I'm going to be posting every other week from now on, since I can foresee this happening more regularly now. My honeymoon phase with Korea is over, and I'm ready to settle in a little bit more. Some things of note did happen this week: I finally got my Alien Registration Card (ARC) on Thursday. The photo of me that they put on it makes me look like a femme fatale from film noir. Which is to say that it doesn't look like me very much. Since I finally had my ARC, I went to the bank and got a debit card. I don't have to pay for everything with cash anymore! And I can send money back home to pay student loans. At the bank, the song "Requiem" from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was playing. One thing I did do was listen to a lot of music. The walk to and from work affords me an hour or two each day, and it's been wonderful. Maybe this blog will become a review of music! I could have weekly themes. This one would probably be jazz or metal. I played albums by various jazz artists like Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Snarky Puppy's upbeat album groundUP. A couple Rush albums like 2112 and A Farewell to Kings. And then a bunch of metal like Scale the Summit's album The Collective, Thank You Scientist's album Stranger Heads Prevail, and The Contortionist's album Language. If you end up listening to any of these for the first time, please let me know what you think! And maybe recommend some music. On Saturday, there was a farmer's market just outside my apartment. There were people at booths selling exactly what you would expect: jewelry, household knickknacks, clothing, produce. They had a live DJ playing music, too. Then I hopped on the train and went to dance class (which is when I listened to all that jazz). After class, Anis was kind enough to invite me to his birthday party, so I joined him and his friends for Korean barbecue in Hongdae. And well, that's the end! I don't even have any pictures! Hopefully I'll acquire some interesting content over the next fortnight. See you later, everyone. :)
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AuthorAshley is a Canadian teaching English in South Korea. Although between the Korean, swing dancing, and general life skills, she's probably learning more than she's teaching. Archives
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