Last night as I was walking home I fell off a curb I tried to laugh it off but my foot was pretty swollen and blue. This morning Patrick convinced me to go get my foot checked out and I was so glad I did because it turns out that I fractured my foot. Of course not the foot that I fractured in December, no this time it's the right one. Which is just awesome.
But the reason I'm writing about this is to say just how much I love going to the doctor here in Korea. The experience today was the polar opposite of the whole thing in December. I got to the doctors office, waited 20 minutes because he was on lunch. THen at 2 o'clock on the nose I was brought into his office. He took one look at my foot and sent me to have it x-rayed, 10 minutes later he had the results and sent me down the hall where I had some sort of electric paddle therapy thing (but not before he gave me an injection of pain killers). Then after a half hour i was brought back to his office where they fitted me for a walking cast. And gave me my prescription for a whole pile of mystery drugs. I LOVE the efficiency here. Oh, and the whole thing cost me $25 including the cast and the drugs. Awesome!
This past weekend was Chuseok, which is like Korean thanksgiving. Originally I wanted to go away somewhere but in the end Patrick and I decided to play tourist in Seoul and do all of the good stuff there that neither of us had gotten around to doing yet. And to make it even better I went and bought a nice new camera (mine got broken a couple of weeks ago) so I took like 300 photos. We stayed in Hongdae which is a cool university area, and we visited Gyeongbok palace on sunday and Changdeok palace on Monday. The palaces were both really cool, Changdeok was particularly cool because it has this huge secret garden and you also have to visit with a group tour. At first I was kind of annoyed by the group thing because I'd rather walk around alone but it ended up being good because it meant that there was only a limited number of people in there so you could actually get pictures without anyone in them. We also went up Namsan, a mountain in Seoul that has a big tower on top. It was the first time I got a good view of just how big Seoul is. It was a really great weekend. I'm going to link my photos when I get home. I'm at work right now and the picassa website is all in Korean, so I can't figure it out.
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