I love my Shoebox.

 

So after one night of the love motel I was moved into my apartment.  Here most apartments are one room studio apartments and therefore often referred to as a shoebox.  So since many of you want to know where I'm living, so I made a video of my apartment.  I was too lazy to perfect it so you got the first shot of the day.  I am still waiting on a few other things to be delivered as I currently have nothing to eat, drink, or cook with (so don't drink my orange juice) and my room is missing a little furniture still, but I am okay with that.  When I dropped off my bags I didn't even have a bed as the company hadn't delivered my new bed.  Then it didn't have a comforter until my boss and his wife went down the street and bought one.  (note the pink chosen for me).  So at this point, I'm cool with the basics as I get settled in and figure out how I will decorate my walls, how I will cover or disguise my pink bed (currently flipped over for a less pink look), and all that lies in between.  If you have any suggestions...I'd love to hear them.  Welcome to my home in Suwan Jigo, Gwangju, South Korea. 

I'm not sure when I'll post about my neighborhood but the quick version is, I live in the North West corner of Gwangju.  I live in a newly developed upscale area of Gwangju where almost everything was built in the last 5 or so years. So my neighborhood is not what you (or I) envisioned when I thought of Korea.  But I like it, a lot. It means I don't live in a nasty moldy old apartment.  It's small, but it's clean and nice.  Most of the apartment complexes here are tall 20 something story buildings.  In the video, all the really tall thin buildings you see out the window...are all apartments.  I live in a 3 story building. The bottom floor is a pork restaurant (who doesn't love pork?!) and then above it is two floors of apartments.  It's small, it's quaint, and I couldn't be happier with what or where I ended up.