Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 6:42am
Today was definitely exciting in its own way and definitely hectic.
I got to wake up at my own leisure today, but thanks to a little friend I like to call jet lag, I woke up around 8:30. Oh well. I had nothing to do today though so I tried to mess around with my camcorder and figure out why my mic isn't working. I think a cord is bad or something, I don't know. The microphones just won't work, both of them. I need to e-mail my tech guy at Murray and maybe he can help from afar.
It's really amazing how little I can speak to the people here and/or understand. I don't even want to start imagining what life would be like if there wasn't another english speaking person here. I tried to withdraw money today because of my serious lack thereof, but I found out that I can't because the ATMs don't support American banks here. So me and Kayla decided it would be a good idea to go and see Daegu and I could also try and find a Global ATM to get money out of.
We went at first to the international affairs office to try and get directions. They told me there was a Global ATM close to nearby Yeongnam University. It wasn't a big deal because the bus that took us there also took us to Daegu, so we got on that. On the way though, they announced all the names of places in korean, of course. Needless to say this left my bus navigating abilities severely weakened. We missed the stop and ended up in Daegu 20 minutes later.
Trying to salvage the situation, we found the bank which has a branch on campus and tried to make that work. I attempted a try at an ATM, but no dice. I then went to the customer service lady and stumbled through enough of the banking english she knew to get to a point where I could try to transfer money to my bank account in Korea. The first thing she asked me for was my passport, but of course I didn't have it.
Lesson #1: If doing anything important, ALWAYS bring your passport.
So if that wasn't fun enough, turns out I need my alien registration card also. Oh well, I will have that by like the end of next week I think and I should have enough snack food and PB and J to last that long anyways. If not I will pay back my friends if they buy my meals. The good news is though that I can definitely transfer money once I get that card. Hooray cash!
So we hopped on a bus after some totally bogus sightseeing (most of Daegu is shut down until people get off work around 4 or 5 o clock apparently). On the way home we found the stop we missed before so we got off to see if the global ATM was there. We found the bank and went inside, but those ATMs wouldn't work either. Oh well. I still have a solid plan with the whole money transfer thing.
The rest of the day was pretty normal, just a bunch of sitting around talking about god and whatnot. It's about 9:41 here and I'm exhausted. I've gotta hurry up and sleep with my mistress, Jet Lag.
Night night,
Aron Huckaba, International Vagabond
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