I can't say the number of times I have heard "you can do anything for a year..." from friends and family. So, with that in mind, I have moved from Colorado to Korea, and will be teaching English for a year. I hope to meet many wonderful people, get to know the Korean and Asian cultures better, and just have some amazing life experiences. We will see where it goes from there...I have created this blog to stay in touch with friends and family, so please say hi!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Korean spas
Korea has the greatest spas... that is, if you are willing to take your clothes off! The spas are all over the place, and they are kind of like a bath house. The Korean name is jimjibang They are separated into men's and women's, and then a combined room. So, basically you can go, shower, hang out in the hot tubs or sauna, and then get dressed and meet the guys in the middle. I have been to the one in my building a few times, and it is really great. I have to say that it is pretty strange, especially for my conservative American background, to walk around naked - but you get over it. Tonight, I did a scrub. Basically you pay about $15 to have someone scrub your body. It is amazing how much dead skin I had. It was kind of like a rough massage - but it felt really great, and my skin is soooo soft now. Definitely doing that again! I am sure some of you are reading this and are thinking - what?! That is what I thought when I first came to Korea, but now I really wish that we had these back home. At home, it is expensive to go to a spa, and they aren't always that available. These spas are designed for people to take their time and really just relax. You can watch TV, take a nap, get on a computer, eat...pretty much whatever you want in addition to the spa, and they are usually open 24 hours - or at least pretty late. Here is a picture of the inside of a jimjibang (the shared room)- this is not the one I go to - mine is really simple - but it is similar. I stole this photo from flickr. ;-)
this is grami saying hi i just read all of your blog very interesting will be anxious to hear more when you return home. this is the first time i have typed on the computer and actually the last time i typed was quite a while ago so bear with me. keep writing you are doing a great job. Love you and God Bless.
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky...- Cesare Pavese
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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That's pretty cool--and waaayyy more affordable than what you pay for a spa hour here ($75-$100) for them to do anything for you. I'm jealous!
this is grami saying hi i just read all of your blog very interesting will be anxious to hear more when you return home. this is the first time i have typed on the computer and actually the last time i typed was quite a while ago so bear with me. keep writing you are doing a great job. Love you and God Bless.
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