random bits and pieces

just posting some random photos that i've taken along the way that never made the cut before but that are kind of neat. can you tell i'm bored? just you try watching korean tv for longer than 30 seconds!!! and hey, there's only so much discovery channel that one can watch!!!

i tried to figure out what this was for - i know, it looks like a bookcase - but i never figured out what it's really for. it was just sitting in the middle of the sidewalk in gimhae. it looked like something you might keep salt in (to salt the roads in winter) but i don't think they do that here. then i thought it could be some kind of electricity transformer, but since i don't speak korean i couldn't ask any passerby's... it does look cool though.

"be careful about stairs" you never know when they'll attack!! i couldn't resist snapping this at the busan tower last weekend... and since i'm the clutz that i am, it's a good thing they had a sign for me! hahaha... one of the best things about korea is being able to laugh about all the really bad english everywhere... i'll post more as i get them.

more bad english. this is on the back of a van that is often parked a few blocks from my house. i'm assuming they're trying to say "if she's rockin' don't come a knockin'" but who knows!

you know how they say that everything in asia gets turned into a cartoon, well, in korea, every city has a sort of mascot which is always a cartoon. this is the gimhae turtle - these little signs are posted ALL over the place.

this is one collection of old boxes (they are also all over the place). this one is right across the street from my school and is one of the smaller ones i've seen. old people are always hanging around these things, like homeless people collecting cans in montreal, old people here collect old boxes. i should find out why they do it. i keep imagining that they get paid for it somehow... but the boxes never get picked up, they're always there... i'll let you know.

"Hot and Ice" a vending machine in the busan subway. more funny english. it actually surprises me that so many things are written in english here when so few actually speak it.

i missed the textbook musuem :( how sad. it was located near KNUE where i had my orientation, i suppose i could make a special trip back, but i don't think i ever will... what will they think of next? the musuem of pencils? (it probably exists somewhere)

BOWLER HAT CROSSING - SLOW - this is in gimhae... i know, i know, that's a speed bump, but really, it does look like a bowler hat...

that's it for now folks. hope you enjoyed this installment. there will be more coming... especially since tomorrow i have no classes (there are exams all day) but have to sit at my desk all day - reminiscent of my TD days... sitting and doing nothing. i think i'll study some korean and surf the net a bit, so send me emails, comments, cheesy forwards, links to cook websites, anything to help me pass the time! it'll be a long day... and i think i have to repeat it on monday. keep your fingers crossed that i get paid tomorrow... since i still haven't. it was supposed to be done today so should actually be in my account tomorrow... pray for me!