blood, urine, xray... under 10

To stay in Korea you must apply for your alien registration card, so that is what we set out to do today. I was dreading it, as everybody knows how the Canadian system is, and not speaking the language i really thought this was going to be very painful. To my surprise the entire ordeal was over in less than half and hour!! It cost 50,000 won, which i should get half back under my insurance. Once i paid, up a flight of stairs, pee in cup, get blood taken, then a chest xray- 5miniutes total. Then go outside to the Dept. of Health building, height and weight, eyes and hearing test and finally blood pressure, DONE. I was so surprised. It took us longer to get there.

Luckily we were now only a few subway stops away from the Famous Fish Market (Jagalchi) and the Foreigner Market. The fish market was huge. A person could find anything they could ever need relating to the fishing industry. At the market is also the port for the fishing boats and i think some ferries leave from here as well. It was neat to see, never been to a port before.

The foreign market wasn't really anything spectacular. There was all of the name brands clothes like puma, patagonia, north face and such. But in the area that we live in we can get that stuff, and it is not over an hour subway ride away. I was hoping to find jewelry making supplies, but no such luck.

On the subway ride home a little girl plopped beside and stared at me. i could tell, so i looked at her and of course she pointed at my nose ring wondering what the heck is that?! It is very uncommon here as well as tattoos, so it is not the first time that i was asked questions about it. So she continued to stare for a long time, then she gave Mark and I a vitamin C tablet? There seems to be no shortage of vitamin c in these parts, not really sure why.

So that was our saturday, i am not sure what we will do tomorrow, probably go to the beach as we haven't been there for a while.