Before I came to Korea I read about this yellow dust, but I didn't really understand what it was or how much of it there is. Apparently it is really fine sand that comes over from the Gobi Desert in China. I don't really understand how it can travel all the way here but whatever it is there sure is a lot of it. Every morning I wake up coughing and congested, so today I was like well maybe I'm not sick, maybe my apartment is dusty so I set about dusting. Well it turns out absolutely everything in my apartment was coated in a thin (or in some areas thick) layer of this yellow dust. It's really strange. Also, one night last week we were going out to dinner and it was raining really hard and all of the puddles were full of the stuff. It looked like someone had spilled yellow paint all over the place.
The other thing that I've noticed this week is everywhere is plastic wrap. As I've said before Dongtan is a really new city, which is pretty cool but lately I've been noticing that there is plastic wrap everywhere and for some reason this little thing really bugs me. So I'm constantly going around pulling it off. You know when you buy a new appliance it has the plastic stuck to it. Well everything has that here. I see it everywhere, it was all over my apartment, I found some more this morning on one of my windows. It's even on elevator buttons and the hinges on bathroom stalls in restaurants and whatnot.
As for what I did this week, it was a pretty quiet week. I went back to Gangnam and Itaewon this weekend. Next weekend I'll find somewhere new to go. Oh, I had my medical test for my working visa, that was pretty crazy. We went to this hospital and they did every kind of test you can think of in about 45 minutes. They checked our eyes, ears, did blood tests, x-rays, drug tests, blood pressure - they even checked our teeth. I totally felt like a horse or something being checked out before purchase - Ok, now let's just take a look at it's teeth. Anyways, I passed so I should get my Alien Registration Card this week. Oh, I put new photos in my slideshow.
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Bonjour Alex,
tu m'a fait beucoup rire quand tu parles des examens COMPLETS que tu as passé.... Comme si c'était l'achat d'un nouveau cheval !!!! pas mal comme comparaison.
Ca doit faire drole d'avoir l'impression d'être la première personnes à passer par un endroit à force d'enlever les plastiques .
On te suit en lecture et aventure...
Si jamais tu es capable de me donner tes corrdonnées GPS (comme longitute) je pourrai te localiser exactement sur GoogleEarth.
Bonne semaine et à bientot.
Daniel.... (bisous xxx)
Je ne connais pas les coordonnées, mais si jamais je suis dans l'auto avec quelqu'un qui a un GPS je leur demanderai.
Hi! I love your blog. I am still so impressed with the fact that you actually are doing this. There are so many people (myself included) who say that they want to get up and go teach in some other country, but never do. You on the other hand have totally pulled it off. Go you!
I have to say that I am rather intrigued by the dust factor. I also love the fact that you are going around pulling plastic wrap off everything. I totally understand why it bugs you! It would annoy me too. It is pretty cool that you are among the first people to use all this stuff though.
Well, I guess that's about it. Keep posting and take care!
Erica
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