빨리 - 빨래!

I started off my day with a walk to Paris Baguette for a creamy cloud cake thing. While I was there I saw a fly land on a loaf of bread, and I started laughing to myself, because in Korean, the word for fly is the same as Paris, and so by landing on that bread, the fly had created Fly[Paris] Baguette of his own. Bahahaha. ...My korean puns are hilarious, don't lie.

For lunch I ate pork and kimchi bibimbap and kimchi tuna kimbap, followed with a delicious milkshake from a place called Cafe the Air (a restaurant full of horrible English grammar). The kimbap was delicious - definitely will be going there again for that - but the bibimbap was just okay. It was lacking something. After lunch I hopped onto the bus to head back to Suwon to see Angie!

This time, I got on the FAST bus (which, consequently, did not matter since the traffic was so bad) and got off at the CORRECT stop, and did not get lost! It was great. I stopped in Home Plus, had a Lotte Bulgogi burger, and a donut from this place that is apparently originally in New York City. The donut was heavenly. So Angie and I split a second one. Let the fat feelings and the guilt begin!

Angie and I went back to her house and decided to do laundry! Unfortunately we had too much for her little washer to handle in the time we had available, and so...we ran off to the 24-hour laundromat! Today was my first time ever doing laundry at a Korean laundromat, and it was glorious. The machine supplies the soap and everything for you. All you do is throw in a ton of laundry, put in coins, and wait. For the dryer you choose (in 5 min. increments) the amount of time you want to dry your clothes for and pay the equivalent of 50 US cents per 5 minutes (highway robbery, in my opinion).

While I was there I read a Korean fashion magazine (so many cute and weird outfits) and accidentally killed a fly the size of my thumbnail, which resulted in the most gross gut puddle I've ever seen. I was horrified, and yet strangely fascinated at my awesome fly-killing powers.

Anyways, we had just finished washing and were about to put the clothes into the only available dryer of three when this young couple rushed into the building and stuck their wet clothes in. I was so mad. The wife also kept giving me a really mean glare, and then put all her stuff on top of the table I was reading at and shoved all of my belongings toward me to make room for herself. I was pretty livid. And THEN I overheard her whispering to her husband about "foreigners" and then the man tried to tell Angie and I to be quieter, even though we were barely talking at normal volume. I gave her my meanest face and after that she stopped making comments, probably because she saw the dead fly and realized that I was potentially a deadly assassin.

Anyways, eventually a dryer cleared out, we finished the laundry, and now I'm back here writing to you from a porch in Suwon!

That's all for now, I'll talk to you guys later!

Love,

Janet