I've taken some photos of my room, which was harder than it sounds as I had at one stage managed to fence myself in with furniture while trying to rearrange it. You'll see how small an area I had to work with.

I'll provide an update of my last month. (In reverse chronological order - from a hazy memory)

This weekend was a long weekend and I have no phone and a touch of the flu to boot. I therefore spent it in my place watching way too much pirated streaming rugby and rugby league. The pizza people now know by name as I met a family member who had come up who is an English teacher.

On Friday we went to a place that always appears closed. They have the cheapest beer we could find and the most misleading menu I have ever seen. On a related note I've tried chicken feet, or should that be chicken foot; I hate bones, and it's like eating battered toenails and cartilage.

Last week I went to Daegu. It's massive and has hoards of people. I met some people, eventually, by chance (no phone), and went to a soccer match. It's a big city and outside of andong it will be my main place to go when I can be bother travelling for 3 hours and taking two buses. You can also buy a hamburger there and go to bars which have not only people, but lots of them, even foreigner bars. But I could argue every bar in Yeongyang we go to is a foreigner bar if we're the only ones there.

We got paid, which is nice as I was down to my last ($2) and was using my credit card for takeaways; groceries are cash only.

I finally made it to Subi, the last of my schools, and it is amazing; the food is outstanding, I impressed them by introducing myself in Korean and the students are civil and not an unruly mob. It's too bad it's only once a week and the following day is just that much harder.

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I forget how the rest goes. I know I've been to Andong to start my Alien Registration Card (ARC), which I'll need to get a phone. I picked up an expensive (and only available option) head shaver from E-Mart.

I was also a basketball referee who wasn't too sure of the rules and adopted a laissez faire approach. I blew the whistle, feebly, once for the ball being taken passed back into their own half. Part of the problem was I wasn't too keen to explain my loose interpretations of the rules to people who have a low grasp of English.

Other than that there isn't much to say. I teach like 3-4 hours a day and the rest of the time I'm kind of doing nothing until I can go home.