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Yeah, the FL is just going to be read in bits and pieces, because I won't be able to get internet for my apartment until I get my Alien Registration card, and I can't get that until I get my health check cleared and I won't be able to get that until I leave for corporate training in Seoul, which is the week after next week.

But until then, dear darling FL - it's Sunday in Gwangju and I'm about to go out to Art Street in a little bit. Yesterday, P & I (P is a nice Canadian teacher who is leaving in April - his contract's up) went to Gwangju's downtown and visited Daiso (OH YES. THEY HAVE DAISO KOREA), the Underground Grocers (Tim Tams and Fisher's Cheese Balls and real cheese from Costco and bacon and peanut butter) and then to an authentic Chinese restaurant and after lunch we went to E-mart.

E-Mart is just as vast and crazy as I thought it would be. We'll go to Home Plus later this week.

I bought Skinfood at the E-mart and ate Popeye's chicken for dinner. Yes, Popeye's chicken, when it seems like every five minutes there's a new CM for another Korean fried chicken chain flogged by another group of bright young things who probably don't eat.

THAT'S RIGHT I'M LOOKING AT YOU SHINEE & KARA.

Also on the tv: the Koreans love Bones, NCIS, Smallville, Private Practice Grey's Anatomy, Without a Trace, and basically as I really don't like procedurals, I'm sort of in English language tv purgatory, but I also found the Simpsons and Family Guy (eh on FG, but SIMPSONS!) on late night tv. Oh and Sy Fy's Alice was playing along with Primeval.

And yes, I found We Got Married too, kitsune714. Mostly, I've been flipping through CNN, the one or two Chinese channels (I saw a Hu Ge & Ariel Lin thing last night), Channel J (which is channel 69) so I can see Arashi videos & really old j-dramas.

And watching the terrible American movies they show in the afternoon - I watched Dracula 2000 and Transformers is playing today.