Blog Resurrection/ROK (Part 2)

Days 4-5 Sat & Sun

We spent the weekend indoors mostly, plus there was a bit more smog according to the news anyway. Just headed to the supermarket late Sunday for a last minute errand for food.

Day 6 Mon

Task for the week is to continue on the the paper works that we had to accomplish as we get settled back in the country. We still had problem with connecting and doing transactions because almost everything would need mobile phone number or residential phone. So one of the priority is to get ourselves those. The first one was the mobile phone which was a bit tricky to choose the cheapest and most applicable for our needs as there were a lot of plans to choose from. We ended up with going for the practical one from the Korean Post Office. The thing is this is only for Korean nationals.

At the Post Office:
While hubby was dealing with the phone plans and application forms, me and my son check around the place. It was the main post office of the city so I think it was quite spacious enough. The postal service starts in the middle counter going to the right. The last one on the right deals with the phone subscriptions. The banking service is on the left side, with fancy waiting areas for the clients at the opposite side of the counters.

There was also a small museum of sorts of stamps at the far end on the right, along with an aquarium filled with plants and a few fishes. It seems very relaxing as one waits for their turn at the counter which I don't think they would really have to wait that long after all anyway.

I also checked out the restroom which was located at other side entrance of the building to wash my badly-needed ginger as head out again for the bus later. There was classical music playing in the background as I try to find and follow the rest room sign. It turned out that it was coming from the rest room. Oh my!! It's been a while since I've heard such in a rest room and the music was really cool. I almost felt that I would want to stay longer in there even if I was just using the wash stand. Rest room would definitely be an applicable term for that place. I even want to hang out there coz it was very clean and the music is just cool.
But the cleaning lady seems to be doing her last minute job before calling it a day so I had to get my butt out of her way.

We headed toward the market (sijang) after the post office and stopped by some store on sale for the boys' shoes. We continued our trek downward exploring the market looking for a gimbap store for our snack/dinner, as well with other stuff that we needed to buy.


We found a small gimbap store inside the market to satisfy our hungry stomachs. The thing is there wasn't any soup that went with it. I realized that I was so used with Gimbap Nara that I always look for the soup usually paired with the gimbap as default. I wasn't that satisfied. :(

Continuing with our little exploration trek, we went on to the other parts of the sijang. We got a 6000 W kid's belt from the street market and most household items from Daiso store which we just happen to find. Husband almost didn't want to get in there at first but after luring him in with the bubble wrap outside that we do need to buy, we all got in, browsed around and ended up buying more than 20,000 W worth of goods. I just love Daiso shops for that. We got a dish drainer, 2 small ceramic mugs, 1 plastic mug, a set of 3 small cleaning towel, another set of 3 cleaning sponge, 2 pairs of hiking socks for men, and a small indoor plastic broom. Oh, I almost forgot the bubble wrap that got us all in in the first place. All of these we lugged as we got on the bus after waiting for quite a time in the cold.Oh well, we manage to get some things done today.

Day  7 Tue
Today is the Orientation Day at my son's school so father and son went together. The boy a bit confused with the route going to his school and I had to follow and help him cross the street since his father already went a little ahead of him. As it turns out, he left and totally disappeared the minute they got to school leaving his dad to pick up his books carrying the heavy set home in his lone bag. He had to call me for SOS  for additional bag in bringing home those books.

Good thing is that we already have our internet phone and mobile phone now. The internet was installed yesterday morning and the mobile SIM was delivered in the afternoon. The next order would have to be the rice cooker.

And so that covers our first  7 days here starting on settling in. We have more tasks to do in the following days which include buying school supplies, and more government registration for my husband.