So I realized that I never really told you all about where I have been staying while here in Seoul. I did a rather long general post back in July about the Hostel that I was staying in for my first night before I moved to the hotel for training, so let's start there.
The hostel that I ended up staying at (thanks to my beautiful 여보) was "My Home" in Sadang. It is really convenient to get to from the airport, since it is walking distance from one of the airport bus stops in the Gangnam area.
I was on the second floor of the hostel, with was on the 4th floor of the building that we were in, which as I said before, I felt really bad/grateful for the guy that helped me bring up all my luggage to my room at midnight!
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| Picture of the hallway on my floor. The room with the light coming out of it is my room |
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| My room came with a mini-fridge and a small TV. |
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| My bed and all my luggage, we all (barely) fit! |
"My Home" was really nice and clean, and was a perfect crash pad for the night. My room came with a desk, cubbies, and a small wardrobe since most people who rent rooms in these kind of hostels tend to stay for a few weeks at a time (not for one night like me). But there were communal/gendered bathrooms, a computer room, a washroom for laundry, a kitchen with free rice and Kimchee, as well as free wifi in each room. And for 20 dollars a night, is was a great deal for a single room!
After my night at the hostel and the adventure of getting my things to the hotel (that you can read about here), I moved into my home for the following 2 weeks. The Coatel is a hotel and a business center in Gangnam were you can rent rooms for a few days up to a few months depending on how long you are in Seoul for your business conference, trip, whatever. And apparently it is where all of my company's employees have been trained (for at least the past 7 years now based off what I have heard form the older teachers). The rooms were really nice too! Every trainee had a roommate and were allowed to stay in the rooms for a whole 2 weeks, or until we found an apartment near our branches to move into. I was one of the last to move out and into my apartment on the 12th of August.
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| our beds in the hotel. Definitely not my pillow top from home, but still really comfy! |
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| Smoking balcony and kitchen table |
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| Full fridge, kitchenette, shoes closet (also place to take off shoes before entering the room), and bathroom. |
After training, I was able to sign into my current apartment, aka "The Cave," here in Junggye and have started making it feel more like home! I don't have any pictures of the current space with all my furniture because I finally just unpacked my last suitcase the other day ( I know it took me about a month and a half, I am a little lazy. What can I say ^^;;). But my apartment is a studio styled room with a loft where I keep my bed. My "first floor" is where I keep my clothes, dinning room table, desk, my folding clothes rack (since I don't have a dryer), and also where my kitchenette and bathroom are located. My "second floor" is just big enough for my queen mattress (tl;dr I ordered larger than I though and it turned out ok), a small side table/desk thing, and all my blankets folded up in a pile.
I promise to post pictures of my furnished place soon, but in the mean time I would love to get pictures of all my friends and family (plus lots of 3m strips!!) so I can make a picture wall, since my walls are dreadfully, college dorm-esque bare right now.
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| My first night's dinner in the Cave |
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| No bed or anything, so just slept on the two blankets that I has at the time. |
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| Duck socks make any situation better~ |
Like I said, I will post more pictures of the Cave once I get everything just the way I like it (which let's be real, it will never be perfect), so just hold tight! For those of you on Facebook, you probably can see the video I posted last month which shows the basic shell of my house!
Love you all so much and I promise to keep you all updated about my life!
