Bunnies for Sale!

It is still pouring here but I braved the weather and went exploring. Props to North Face for providing a fully waterproof jacket. Funny how everything and nothing has changed since the last time I was here. Went roaming around my old haunts today and stopped off at Itaewon, the shopping area that is near it. Finally found postcards and got a few other things as well. One of the ladies gave me a discount "because you are not Japanese." For once, I'm glad my Dad made me speak Korean when we went shopping years ago because I was able to bargain a little bit and not get stuck with the foreigners' price (about half as much more sometimes!).

RIDICULOUS amounts of Louis Vuitton. Some fakes were hilarious, using letters that might have looked like LV from very, very far away, but when you get up close, you realize it's an A and W, or Y and V. I loved when they told me it was real and that they were giving me a good deal on something straight from the factory. I did make a purchase in the end, a little change purse that is light pink like this belt. If you want anything though, say something ultra necessary like an LV tissue box cover or something, put your orders in...Keil, if only you could get your hands on this.

Never realized how much I appreciated my army base pass I had all the other times I was here until I drove by it in the cab today and realized I had no way of getting on and buying US groceries...

Finally made it down the rest of the street to my old apartment building which I made it to without any problems. I get lost everywhere else in this city if I make one turn off the route I'm used to since everything looks the same. But I could've walked to this place with my eyes shut even though there are different restaurants and more Western places like KFC or CVS (which stands for Con Venience Store here). Made my way through the alleys and found out that my old building is no longer an apartment building, but the home of the Seoul division of the United Nations Development Program. The guard was giving me funny looks while I was standing outside of it looking in through the gate and only when I saw the sign on his guardhouse did I realize why. Kinda funny to think that my old bedroom with pink curtains and a canopy bed now has a UN employee working on the programs I'm trying to get a job with.

On the way back, there was a lady selling bunnies in the subway station for about $8.50. They were so small, one of them fit in the palm of my hand with room to spare! A bunny would be fun to have in the apartment, but I couldn't get it until after I get back from Taipei. And then what do I do with it when I leave? But they were really, really cute.

Enough procrastinating...back to essay writing...