It feels good to have finally received a paycheck and to have some money to buy things for the apartment or whatever. My first big purchase was a coffee pot this weekend. I had a stove-top kettle in my cart and I kept looking around because I thought that maybe they had real coffee makers by the electronics. I actually found quite a few. There was one for $15 that made 5 cups and another one for about $20 that made 10 cups. I went with the bigger one but it made me laugh because it is a "hello kitty" coffee pot. I think that it is a kids show or just like a brand for kids but it was the cheapest one that would do the job. I laughed, thought it was funny but now I have a little kids coffee pot and it works great. I bought coffee and filters and I have been in Heaven every morning with my own little starbucks in my apartment. I also bought a coffee cup. :-)

I am leaving for Japan on Saturday to obtain my visa. I am pretty excited althought I don't really know what to expect. I am going to get some details and hopefully things work out - it will be fun to walk around in Japan and see it for a day or two. I also got a phone on Saturday but don't have minutes yet so I should be connected in no time. I also need to buy a charger. I learned that every phone in Korea has the same charger, that's a great idea, so it should be easy to buy one.

I have asked a few Koreans and all the foreigners about golf and driving ranges but no one has any ideas about this. I did find that indoor golf is very popular (like Maple Hill) so I am kind of hoping for that but I have no clubs so it might be difficult. Who knows, but I am thinking about trying to find the address of the huge range located somewhere in Incheon that my Dad said is on the internet.

Bungee jumping didn't happen because my friend who was going to take me was busy and forgot about it. Hopefully, one of the next weekends I will get a chance to do this.

About a week ago one of the other teachers got a meal delivered to her and it was an "omelette". it looked just like one of our U.S. omelettes and that was all that I saw. It looked good and she confirmed that it was indeed an omelette. I ordered that today and it came, along with three side dishes, soup and kimchee (their type of salad) and it cost a grand total of just under $4, delivered to my desk. Ha, I couldn't believe it was so cheap but I didn't even come close to finishing it. This is not the end of the story. The omelette was covered in a type of hot sauce and I started to cut into it and it was basically a huge ball of rice covered in egg. The whole inside of it was rice and in the rice was a bit of ham and also some veggies. It was funny in that I was expecting a huge omelette (it was propably about 2-3 times the size of one of Charlies Crab/Damons, etc. for brunch). It turns out that most of it was just rice. It was still very good but very surprising.

I'm hoping after my weekend trip to Japan, I will be able to connected to the internet at home as I first need a visa, then the I.D. card will follow and then the internet hook-up. I am getting frustrated with the whole process but it is okay. It shouldn't be too much longer.

That's all for this week.
Kevin