Arrived and Settled

I stayed last night at a guest house in Incheon and today took the airport bus and got myself checked-in to the Crimson House. I got a power strip, new dictionary, and a cell phone.

For reference my cell phone number is
011-82 (international code, country code) (0)10-2624-1464

I saw someone on the subway playing with their cell phone while in the subway car. I figured they were seeing the time or writing a text message but then they answered the phone. I decided to check mine and saw I had full reception in the subway. Mind you I was standing in the subway car traveling between stations; full signal. Despite my cell phone in the States, which loses signal inside of my office (boy those paper thin walls sure seem to block signal...) my cell phone here has full reception basically anywhere. Oh yeah, and it is standard to have 2 batteries that come with each phone and I can charge the one on my phone or the second battery in the charger. It's an LG slide phone (read: expensive) with Samsung batterys, came with a hands free unit and plastic protection case for $30 with a 4 month contract of $13 a month plus calls I make (read: no wasted minutes and overage charges and cheaper than the phone plan I had 4 years ago attending Yonsei Univeristy).

It is not as humid as China was and it's not that hot (today). If it does get hot I might invest in a fan.

Slept a fair amount off and on on the airplane, that and arriving at night (so I crash when everyone else in the country does) I am basically adjusted to the time difference.

The laptop is working well, have it wired into the network and have 4mb dl speed with 250kb upload speed. At church I could get 130k dl and 30~40k upload, at home 115k download and 12k upload. Now pages pop open just like that! I love being in the country with the best high speed connections to people ratio in the world.

Packed Up and Ready to Go

Suitcases packed, carry-ons packed. Learned that the more time you have to time the more time you have to remember little things you forgot. I'm accepting that I am leaving things behind and will enjoy myself more that way.

We leave the house in about 3 hours, so I better get some sleep. I will be posting/e-mailing again later this week once I am able to semi-settle down.

"Desperadoes in Campus"

I read this article about the "Desperadoes" who deliver food on HanYang's campus with their evil little scooter carts.

Kim Byung-kook says it best in his Focus Article:
"Walking in the campus, Hanyangians often are in danger by motorcycles. The delivery men, driving through small gaps among students, look dangerous. Are they boasting their skillful driving? A terrible accident is deadly worried."

If you follow the link you can see a fellow Hanyangian planned ahead and wore a shirt telling the motorcycle man to "Don't Touch."

Are the motorcycle delivery men simply evil and up to no good? Only driving next to students when the path looks so clearly open? Or is he an incredible driver with such skills that he uses only 2 stretchy cords to transport dishes?

Or maybe should the students be the ones to blame if "a terrible accident is deadly worried" when the students are standing in the middle of a road? Hmm, not the best place to stand around chatting.

A quote from "V for Vendetta" came to mind:
"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you, and you may call me V."

6 Days Left

Yesterday marked the 7th day until I leave. I have had a countdown on my office window since about day 15.

Dell finally sent me my laptop backpack. I ordered it, they changed my order and didn't tell me, called tech support, 47 minutes later they offer me a coupon to get a new one, next day found out in the fine print I need to spend $25 more to be able to use the coupon, found it as a kit with 1 gig usb and wireless mouse, ended up getting shipped 2 acessory kits for ipod minis inside of my backpack (ear phones, manual and usb connection), cost me $5, $22ish after shipping and tax. The normal backpack standalone price is $50 from Dell and $83 from Best Buy.

Trying to get my t-shirts to work. The ink keeps burning...

Accepted to Hanyang, Airplane Tickets, Visa, Housing

Everything is coming together with 10 left until my departure. I called HanYang Univ. to get the confirmation from the language department, airplane tickets after that, laptop, etc etc.

I've been looking over the calender to make sure I finish everything I need to before I leave as I will be passing my work over to Shelby when I take off. Now to get the laptop updated with the files I need, finish a few things for Metalsoft, work on the Neighborhood Impact training, and work more on the website; then I will be all set to go~