Wednesday, June 4, 2008

June 3, 2008: Family & Yongsan

Anyung,

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted. I've been pretty busy on the weekends so it's been tough trying to find time to share my experiences. So in the last couple of weeks, I've spent a lot of time with family. This last weekend I went and visited my uncle (on my dad's side) and his family. They live about an hour away on the subway and then half an hour by car. He has two little children, a girl (3 y.o.) and a boy (18 m.o.). Unfortunately I had a really tough time remembering their names but they really took to me. They would follow me around everywhere, I think it was mostly because my Korean was at the same level as theirs. I wished I hadn't accidentally deleted the pictures of them because they were so cute. But I will see them again and I'll make sure to post the pics when I go back.

Other then family I also visited Yongsan, which is the electronics district of Korea. And man is it huge! Unfortunately I also deleted those pictures but I'm sure I'll visit again real soon. So in the Yongsan station there is a electronics mega mall that is 9 stories tall. Imagine a Best Buy with 9 stories, it's huge! They sell every kind of electronic device you could imagine. While I was there I bought a webcam, so if you would like to see me, get Skype.

I'm glad to report that we have 3 days off this weekend (Fri, Sat & Sun) for Memorial Day, so I'm sure I'll do some exploring. I'll make sure to take lots of pics and write about my adventures. Hope all is well.

~Sunny

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yo Sunshine!

Just wanted to say hi. Glad to hear that you are having fun and getting around ok. Have you started teaching yet or are you doing the curriculum development still? Talk to you soon. . .I haven't got the skype yet, but plan to real soon. Let's play some poker this weekend-hahaha

Peace out,
Chris

Suzanne said...

Hey Sunny!

Your cousins sound adorable; look forward to the next picture posting with them in it. On the electronics front, are the electronics reasonably priced in comparison to here in CA? Do they have cool video games? Any different or new techy gadgets for IPODs, cell phones and/or PCs? Oh, I'm going to see "Tony" in a couple of weeks (Tony, the former Velocity Trainer who left to do strength training at UOP). I'll tell him you're in Korea - I bet he'll get a big kick out of the news. Do any organized workouts lately?