The apartment, briefly

HIYA!

The apartment, briefly. This is a nice place. It's standard in Korea for employers to pay for the teacher's apartment. I don't know how much this place costs, but I suppose it's not real cheap. I pay for utilities: water, electricity, and gas. Fine. I'm pretty frugal anyway with my use.

The floors are heated, not the air. That's standard in Korea. I like it. They're heated by turning on the gas which runs heated water in piping below the floor. My boss says you can control where the heat is going but it doesn't seem possible. So, he says, at night when I'm asleep, I can turn on the heat to only the room where I'm sleeping. Again, it doesn't seem possible. He says he'll ask the apt manager. The floor doesn't have carpeting. It's sort of like linoleum I guess. With a wood pattern. Easy to clean.

It's got two bedrooms, one a master bedroom and the other a small bedroom. They both have beds, a big one and a small one. I use the bigger bedroom with the big bed. There's a full bathroom with hot water. No bath which would be nice in winter to soak in. There's a small kitchen / dining area but is plenty big for one person. There's a fridge and a few kitchen utensils. There's a gas stove. The only kitchen things I've bought are a fork and a butter knife! There's a washing machine which I'm still not good at operating. The manager says to just use cold water and that it's better, for some reason, to wash in cold water. I don't see why he would care much about the temperature that I use for washing clothes since I pay for the utilities. The washing machine is in a room to hang dry clothes. Plenty big. Just outside this laundry drying room is the balcony. Sort of southeast facing which is good. There's plenty of sun. At least there is on sunny days anyway!

There's a TV with cable. But I've told the boss to disconnect the cable since I don't want to watch anything much. I'd rather save the money. The TV isn't even plugged in. I never watch anything.

Wow, this isn't so brief, is it?! The boss gave me two clocks, a wall clock and a table alarm clock. He gave me an electric / battery shaver and the telephone. He's so good to me. Wow. I'm saving money in quite a few ways here.

I will write about this someday, I suppose. Maybe not!

I'm leaving soon for some shopping.

Oh, there's even an umbrella here. And big mirrors. The entrance is like in Japan, where you take off your shoes then step up a little to go into the apartment.

I've really got no complaints at all about this place to live. Well, I could say that I'm cold but that's more me than anything else.

I've determined to overcome being cold. I'm looking in to taking a yoga class, or some other thing. I'm really interested in something disinctly Korean, but Tae Kwon Do is about kicking and punching, which I'm not interested in. I've heard about something else but forget what it's called. More like Tai Chi.

Okay, that's all.

Troy.