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Here are some more pictures:

This is a typical Korean meal. I had the scalding hot soup and Dave had the scalding hot meat and spice mixture. You mix the meaty saucy stuff in with your rice and dig in. Every meal comes with some sort of appetizer which is the third picture. I say appetizer but really they're more like condiments. There are no spices or sauces on the table. No soy, no salt, no pepper, the only constant are these various "appetizers". Kimchi, the spicy pickled cabbage seen on the left, comes with everything. They eat it at every meal. Even breakfast. It's not good to eat by itself, but if you take a bite before rice it adds some much needed flavor. They also have Kimbap which is like a sushi roll. The difference is that everything inside the roll is cooked or pickled. A typical Kimbap roll will have egg, pickled turnip, and some other stuff that I'm 70% sure is also pickled. The food is decent, but after a while it all ends up tasting the same. They also do bulgogi which is marinated meat that you cook at your table, it's pretty good. I've taken a break from my "vegan" phase to fully experience Korean culture.

I don't know why I brought so many shoes, we wear these slippers everyday inside of the school. I'm disappointed that I brought more dressy shoes and left behind comfortable skate shoes, I never wear the dress shoes. That's the biggest pair of slippers we could find.

Here are some pictures of my school. That's the dirt soccer field in the foreground. The other picture is the gymnasium. My school is on the outskirts of Pusan, in a farming area. The last pic is what a lot of land around the school looks like. Koreans will grow food anywhere. If there is a 2 x 5 lot of dirt next to a sidewalk chances are something is growing there. Most likely green onions, peppers, romaine lettuce, or tomatoes.

VIPS is a buffet style restaurant. It's pretty good but pricey. I put this picture in for the slogan. It's a "Fresh Life Restaurant". I'm not sure if Marketing and Ethics have met each other yet here in Korea. There's a pizza place that focuses it's ads on womens health. There are little Twinkie cakes that claim to be healthy because they have wheat in them. I have no idea where the connection is. I think that turtle is my town's mascot? The glass case is from the subway. If anyone is worried about my safety they shouldn't be, there are full gas masks and suits in these cases in all of the subways.
Last but not least here's a picture of my new "K-pop" haircut. It took a really long time for them to cut. At first I was just chillin, expecting to look like the model in the picture that I chose (hence the pose). By the end I was trying not to look in the mirror. I was starting to look like a mix of Mark Hamil from Star Wars and Florence Henderson from the Brady Bunch. I had to bite my lip to keep from busting into hysterics and getting an ear chopped off on accident. It was really poofy and funny looking. I ended up getting out the door before I let the hilarity of the situation overtake me. It's not horrible if I mess with it for a bit but at the salon I thought I was doomed. I might cut it again into a mini-mullet. All of the Koreans still think I am handsome. I think I could come to school with a massive head wound and they would still call me handsome.
If you don't get the reference check it out here:

Massive Head wound Harry