The Different
This entry could be titled the odd,
the peculiar, the strange or the weird. I don’t want it to seem
like I’m placing any negative emphasis on it however, so here a
just a few things that I’ve noticed during my first week which are
different than back home.
Koreans brush their teeth after every
meal. At the conclusion of lunch the entire school, including our
Korean teachers, brushes their collective teeth at the 1 foot high
horse trough, of course with their coffee-flavored toothpaste. Even
the Caucasian siblings Caleb and Arielle.
There are closed circuit security
cameras everywhere. On the streets, at any entrance and exit, in
each building’s stairwells, even in the classrooms…all of them.
Mine included. If I stop and think about it, it seems a little
Orwellian and I become paranoid.
At water coolers there are the Korean
equivalent of paper cups, little paper pockets, to drink your water
from. These are literally the tiny paper equivalent of the back
pocket on your pants. Very cool.
Most apartments, stores, and
restaurants have air-conditioning, thankfully. However, Koreans
believe that it is terrible for your health to be in a room exposed
to what they call “air con” for any extended period of time. If
you leave the room, you turn your air con off. If you're going to
sleep, you set it on a one hour timer. If not, you could die in your
sleep by having all of the oxygen sucked out of your room.
I get so much enjoyment in
discovering, experiencing, and learning these new tid-bits of
knowledge. As long as I can continue to get something out of Busan,
Busan will get something out of me.
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