Finding a Home

I decided my best bet for finding a home was to go out with Mr. You, an English-speaking real estate agent. Eventually we found this place - the top floor of the "SKY" building. It's a corner room with 2 big picture windows on two sides, high above the hustle and bustle below. I will post more pictures once I move in - but until all the paper work gets done, I'm staying in a little hotel across the street. I'm very pleased with the location. It's about a 30-minute walk from the school. The building is flanked by two streets. The street on one side looks like this:

The street on the other side looks like this:

I took these pictures yesterday (Saturday) morning when few people were out, but actually the streets rarely look like this. Normally they are filled (really filled!) with cars and pedestrians. I like feeling in the middle of two worlds, two Seouls, in this spot. If I go out to the smaller street, and then turn left, I go into street after street of little shops, restaurants, sidewalk stands, etc. If I head straight up the big street, I come to a big traffic circle with 8 different entrances to the subway, and if I get across the circle, I come to a smaller street that leads up to the school. Actually, I have to go through the subway tunnel just to get to the street leading to the school. I have everything I need near here - big department stores, Starbucks and all that stuff, supermarkets, and little store after little store. So ... this will be my home for a while.