Little Hurdles

Today was a bit of a lazy day for me, I stayed in my apartment for the most part. I tried to sleep in but couldn't really. I spent my morning catching up on the Bachelorette - I missed your company Bruno!! I had planned to go grocery shopping today, only to find out that all of the grocery stores close every other Sunday, so none were open today. Jess offered to give me her kettle since she doesn't use it, so I went over to her place to pick that up since I've been dying for some tea - something I also miss about home, especially the company that came with it :) Afterwards we went to Daiso and I picked up some more hangers to finish putting away my clothes.

Back at my apartment, I tidied, realized I couldn't clean the kettle (or anything else) because I didn't have dish soap, put away clothes and finally got rid of that ugly cardboard that covered my sliding doors. I realize that the other teacher likely put it up since there is a street lamp outside the window so I'm sure that keeps the room nice and bright throughout the night. But I'm going to try it out tonight without the cardboard and if it bothers me, I will find something more aesthetically pleasing to remedy the problem - yes, it was a guy who lived in here before me! I also angled my wardrobe differently and I feel the room has better flow now. I also turned around the shelving unit at the end of my bed so that the shelves could actually be used. The only other thing to work on is cleaning, that's a huge one, but figuring out a good chair/seat. I have a very low table and my back has been hurting sitting on the floor to be at table height. I also want to get rid of these camping chairs and the big desk chair that I have no use for.

My one and only meal today (because I couldn't get groceries) was pizza, from Mr. Pizza! I was actually quite impressed with it and it even came wrapped with a ribbon.

 

It was yummy and you get a 20% discount for doing take-out, which is great. This was the New Yorker - ham, pepperoni, onion, green pepper and mushrooms. They also have a potato pizza that I'm curious to try.

 

After a quick few bites, Megan came over to take me on a short tour of the subway. We took the 15-1 bus by my place to the train station (that's also where the EMart, movie theatre and big shopping mall is) then got on the train. The system is a little overwhelming at first, I don't remember if I posted a picture last night, but here is a map of the subway lines:

 

 

Just crazy! We took the subway to Gangnam which was about 20-30 minutes away. The station at Gangnam is filled with shops. We walked through it but didn't look around too much, then did a quick walk outside and headed back. I am planning to go back to Gangnam sometime this week so I will take and post pictures then, but it is very nice and looks more similar to downtown Vancouver than my city does. I also want to go to Itaewon which is the foreigner area as well as to hopefully some more historical sights/attractions in Seoul.

Today was all about little victories for me - starting to learn the subway could be one of them as well. But I somehow deleted all of my music off of my laptop and I was completely devastated because my music picks me up. After some time and some googling, I was able to recover the deleted files from my computer and I got my music back!! The other big thing for today was wifi. I bought a wireless router the other day and have been trying to hook it up for the last two days without any luck. Try, try again, right? Finally tonight, I don't know how, especially because this is what I was going off of

 

I got it to work!! This means I can finally use my laptop in different areas of my apartment, and can use my phone! But I probably spent a good hour or more trying to figure it out tonight, that doesn't include the time spent earlier today and yesterday.

Tomorrow I will hopefully have groceries and finally be able to cook for myself! I also have my medical exam tomorrow - it will be an adventure trying to find the building and floor the doctor is on.

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