Not in Kansas anymore

I thought I'd write a quick entry on a few funny things that are obviously different so far. First of all when I got to my apartment I had to take cold showers the first few days because I didn't know how to cut on my hot water. Turns out you have to cut it on and off everyday via a remote on the wall. Secondly, when you're walking down the street and someone older than you needs to get by they will just push you...its normal here no big deal, no need to say sorry or excuse me. While on the same street I noticed a hospital, the odd thing about the hospital is that patients are allowed to just walk around outside with their gowns and IV's hooked up. Sometimes they will be down the street eating outside or smoking a cig while just carrying around an IV. The health department back home would have a heart attack.
Another odd thing is that at my school if you want to use toilet paper its in the office hanging on the wall...You can only guess what the person will be doing with that wad of paper they just grabbed. Also the bathrooms in the school are public so someone off the street might stop in for a minute.
Last but not least I witnessed the funniest thing I've seen in a long time...on my walk to the market there was a stray dog barking at this Korean man and at first the man just stopped and looked at the dog in disgust. The dog kept barking though so the man stopped, turned around, picked up a handful of rocks and began throwing them while cursing the dog. Fortunately no one was hurt but it was pretty amusing at 8 in the morning. Obviously there are more things that stick out such as the dried seaweed snack that I was just given by one of the Korean teachers while writing this post(not that good) but for some reason these resinate more. Until next time.

안녕히 가세요 (stay in peace)