Weekend

Saturday I decided to go to a street market, which was down a long narrow alley. Walking through, there were all kinds of different things being sold. Fruits, vegetables, meat (raw and cooked), Fish (alive, raw, and cooked), clothes, knick-knacks, etc. I didn't take any pictures but I plan to go back maybe next Saturday and take a lot of pictures. While I was walking through the market, I really decided, there isn't much I like about Kimchi at all. There were some shops selling all types of Kimchi, and just the smell of it turns my stomach and is one of the few things that does. However when I wasn't smelling the Kimchi, the air was either filled with the smell of cooking food (good), mothballs (odd), or feces (bad). I tried to stay away from the areas that smelled bad but they kind of sneak up on you. One moment you smell delicious food, you take two steps and bam you’re in feces town.

Sunday I decided to visit Pusan University of Foreign Studies (PUFS), this was founded back when Pusan was the correct spelling of Busan... I took the subway both to and there, which is nice because with my electronic public transit pass (I charge it at convenient stores), transferring from bus to subway to bus again cost only around two dollars, for an hour and a half trip. On the way back when the train started to clear out a bit, I found an open seat. I was sitting down listening to my IPod, and was kind of people watching when I notice some strangers taking my picture, I look next to me and another stranger is posing for the picture, so I decide to smile, and let them know I don't mind.

So, I've decided that I've been a little too shy about taking pictures; I am not a picture person. But I know people at home will appreciate them, and if it's Ok for Koreans to randomly take pictures of me, I figure I can randomly take pictures of Korean things.

Also tonight I decided to buy a dollar slice of pizza for dinner; it had corn on it, and was actually pretty good. But didn't taste like pizza I am used to.