random thoughts

too many serious thoughts going on in my head
(i will update later)
so i decided to stick with a top ten list of random things that are different in korea:
(there are plenty more and will probably be a recurring theme throughout our stay here)
10: if a cabbie waves at you it doesn’t mean that he will pick you up, it means that he is leaving you in the dust

9: when a dog barks in the stairway at our apartment it sounds like a woman is being brutally beaten (its all concrete, straight 16 stories up, open staircase right out our front door, the sound just bounces around like crazy!)

8: when we turn on our lights its like a light switch rave, the lights flicker for a while then turn on
7: we live on the 15th floor and PRAY that the elevator doesn’t break and make us walk up 15 flights of stairs! But, less than a week into it, we had to walk all the way up. Not cool! Someone apparently moved and overloaded the elevator. Since it was overloaded they had to reprogram it.

6: they only use really short brooms here. I don’t know why, but they do

5: there is a man in our grocery store who gets on a microphone and tries to sell you the “blue light special” produce product of the day (or that’s what we think he is doing)

4: all 4 shopping cart wheels pivot, which makes for awesome maneuverability, something that should be adopted in the states right now!

3: pool is very very different here in south korea. The pool table looks regulation with one glaring detail missing: there are NO POCKETS!!! Also they use 3 balls. The rules involve hitting one ball then making sure the other ball gets hit as well, but we don’t know the exact details. It is a lot harder then it looks.


2: Duracell uses a bunny in its ads, when everyone knows it’s the energizer bunny, can they do that legally?


1: pizza is WEIRD. So weird that dominos is “creative dominos”. i.e. for a pepperoni pizza you need to specify “no corn” on your pizza, you can get all kinds of seafood and veggies on your pizza and when you order a pizza you WILL get sweet pickles in containers that look like this:

if you look closely enough you can see the words "sweet pickles" :-p

have a great day!!!!!!