Although I will not complain about staying at the swanky Renaissance for 5 nights, I could not wait to get moved into my apartment and get unpacked...well, that was until I went and visited Kevin's apartment, which is apparently like 100 times nicer than Allie's(a girl I met here from Crystal Lake)apartment. Uh-oh...this studio sure doesn't look like the pics I saw of my apartment!! I was prepared for small, but not smaller than my college dorm room small. Well, too late to turn back now!!
When I arrived at my apartment, after the janitors and principal had lugged my luggage up the hill b/c the road was still too bad for the car to get up it, I was pleasantly surprised!! My apartment is HUGE compared to what I was anticipating!! To be quite honest, it is about the same size, maybe even bigger, than my & Jac's little baby Lake St. apartment that we loved soooo dearly!! I have an office with a huge desk and a little balcony off of it. The kitchen is good sized, especially after I moved the fridge into the office to give the kitchen some more space(and for aesthetic reasons...obviously). And my bedroom...my gigantic bedroom, with its little balcony/screened in porch. I think this might be the biggest bedroom I have had to date, but still the same problem I have been dealing with in Chicago for the last three and a half years....CLOSET SPACE!! I guess, technically this can not even be called a closet, it is a wardrobe...and for those of you that know what my closets and drawer space and floor space for that matter usually looks like, you will know that a single wardrobe is most definitely not enough to house even 1/5 of my wardrobe....good thing I left most of it at home. This little wardrobe is the single most organized "closet" I have ever had, and I intend to keep it that way(I'm going to try my best!!)
I was all prepared to have this teeny-tiny twin bed; I even had all of my bedding with me so I could sleep comfortably!! So much for planning ahead(this is why I don't like doing it)...I have a queen bed!! So my little twin bed mattress is covering the half I sleep on, topped by my 2 bamboo(you should try it, very comfortable) twin sheets, until I have some queen bedding(thanks Mom & Dad)sent over to me. After I did a little re-arranging and brought the dresser into the bedroom from the office and moved the tv stand out on the balcony, my room was perfect...well almost, minus the pukey, yellow, linoleum floors. I hate them and love them all at the same time. I hate the sight of them, but the floors here are heated(which might be my favorite thing about Korea thus far), so no cold feet when you get out of bed at night...and if I lay my towel on the floor while I shower, it feels like it is fresh out of the dryer when I get it...awesome!! Lastly, there is the bathroom...just what I expected...the shower and the rest of the bathroom are one and there is just a drain the bathroom floor....but I have hot water...and isn't that all that really matters? Speaking of hot water...I do have a washing machine...thank goodness, b/c I still haven't lived with out one, and don't really plan on having to ever. They don't use dryers here, so I will be hanging all of my laundry inside the porch to dry...looks like I might start having to do laundry more than once a month. Oh, and the last thing...Koreans take their shoes off when entering pretty much any building...your home, a restaurant, even the school, so there is a tiled entrance that is sunken in lower than the rest of the floor where you leave your shoes....not too exciting, but will be the gateway into my next post.
bathroom...see the shower head in the back corner
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