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Here's a little photo tour of our Korean apartment:

Our front door-- also, to the left, our closets for all of our clothes and to the right the bathroom.

The bathroom.  This was a huge relief because it would seem that not all Korean apartments have a real shower.  Many have a hand held shower head and a drain in the floor.  The shower is a bit crazy-- the temperature in the water shifts erratically from boiling lava hot to freezing cold.  Also, there is an over head shower (which is, thankfully, tall enough for even Dan), then there is "body" shower heads, which are four mini spouts directed straight at--you guessed it-- the body, and there is a hand held shower head as well. Odd, but serviceable.

The living area: we have a big 'ol TV that plays two english speaking stations-- exclusively crime shows it would seem, as I've seen nothing but CIS and NCIS.  And one time, strangely, Spartacus.  Not really my cup of tea.  We're hoping to track down a cord to connect out laptops to the TV so we can at least play some DVDs we brought from home.  

Our kitchen: Pretty self explanatory.  The cabinet to the far left (cut off in the picture) is actually a fridge.  The silver thing above the sink is called a "kimchee refrigerator."  As we're not crazy about kimchee, it's just more shelving. And, what's that below the stove top you say?  An oven?  No, friend!  Not an oven-- it's our washer / dryer combo! 

(here's dan attempting to translate the buttons on the washer-- as they are all in korean.  Mostly we just hit the big button that makes it go and hope for the best.

So, as I'm sure you've pieced together, our kitchen lacks an oven.  And a microwave.  All we have is two burners.  We may buy a toaster oven to remedy this, but for the mean time we've just been eating out every meal (I'll post more on that later).

The World of Warcraft corner.

Then *thump* *thump* *thump* up the stairs to...

Our lofted bed!  Now, even I can't stand up here.  Poor Daniel needs to essentially crawl.  We pretty much only go up here to sleep, as the low ceilings are spectacularly annoying.  But, it's much preferable to having our bed in the middle of our living room like in a typical studio apartment!  

Aaaand, last but not least:

The view from our 9th story window.  We can see City Hall, and some mountains in the background. Very pretty.

So... All in all, we got very lucky.  Our apartment is nice-- and not as small as I feared.  If the loft were a full size bedroom in would be pretty comprable as our apartment in Omaha. Thanks for coming along on our tour!

I've got a lot of photos and stories stored up for some future posts.  Will update again soon!

-Meg