Sickly excited 

Sickly excited

Yah, i've got a nasty cold. I'm monitoring it carefully because of my new situation, and I want to make sure it doesnt develop into anything else. All I know is that I've got the runny nose like a tap, and my glands in the throat are sore and swollen. John, the other ESL teacher kindly gave me some cold stuff like Neo Citran that is from England. Tastes exactly the same, but you have to add sugar yourself. AND it really is non-drowsy. Man, I always wanted Neo Citran that wasnt drowsy! As IF!

So some observations I have to spit out fast before I forget to write them down again. Dad, you'd love the practical things here like the men (and women once in a while?) wear knee length socks (that are brightly colored at times) over their pants as a standard thing! HA! I spose for riding motorcycles, or the one guy I saw was on a construction site, with his steel toe boots too. Heh.

The size of the vehicles are quite fun here...gorgeous black sedans with chrome accents on them, and I have never heard of the make before....to mini vans and odd shaped pickup trucks, and of course motorcycles. Some motorcycles have this shiny silver ducting around all the edges...another practical decorative thing....I see that it would be great to keep bumps and scrapes off. The motorcycles all have baskets in the back usually, unless they are the guys that ride for show. Then of course they are as aerodynamic as possible. Some are really quite cool looking.

Anyway...did I tell you about the other night when John invited me out with his friends? Well I'll recap if I didnt. I met them downtown, and took a taxi there by myself. The taxi went thru the red light district which was quite entertaining. Really pretty girls who weren't dressed as ho-ish or slutty at Americans, but really quite classy in a red-light kind of way. They all sit in parlours with glass on the front of the buildings waiting for customers. One salon I saw the girls all wearing bright red 'housecoats' or 'kimono' like dresses. Very beautiful, actually, with their skin and black hair. The more I'm here the more beautiful the Korean people are to me.

Oh man, I just got a call from school...I got my schedule wrong, and I gotta run.
Trip to Japan starts tonight! Woohoooo!