Seoul - Day 4 (The Jetson's toilet seat)

Today wasn't an exciting day. Just a working day but I still have some stuff to share with you.

So, for the first time I used a "Jetson's" toilet seat. HOLY COW! That was A-W-E-S-O-M-E! But there are some shocking experiences before the awesomeness...

Ok... So, do you know those days that you are really holding it but your wife is using the bathroom, and as soon as you hear the flushing sound you seat on the toilet right after her and the toilet seat is still warm? Yeah!? That's the first thought that comes to your mind when you seat on one of the "Jetson's" toilet seats, someone was just seating here. They are constantly warm for your butt.

The second feature is that it is a bidet and a butt dryer. Another awesome feature... Men, say goodbye to dingle berries. The toilet seat comes with a warm water jet that sprays right there so there is almost no butt wiping involved. And the last thing is a the butt dryer; it blows some air to dry off your butt, but that was kinda obvious I would be kinda ticked if it didn't come with an air dryer - now that you got my butt all wet you better finish the job, right?

After you get up it says: "Thank you for coming! Come again." OK... I was just kiddin' on this last part. But all of the above is true!

Culture:

Through out the time I've been here I have noticed that Koreans are very polite everywhere you go. If your co-worker is the same age as you you call him or her Mr, Ms or Mrs, unless he tells you otherwise.

I felt very welcoming by the team I worked with, they wanted to do everything for me. When one of the girls saw that I was having a hard time eating noodles with metal chop sticks, she went and grabbed a fork for me.

Seoul - Day 2,3

Day 2 was church day. I went to the English branch they have, where most members work at the American military base. For the first time I rode the metro and was quite impressed to see how organized, clean and futuristic subway stations are here.

I also went to e-Mart, which is a Walmart like supermarket network here in Korea. E-mart is quite different from supermarkets you see in USA or Brazil. The E-Mart I went to was huge, where I would say that 1/4 of it was fresh food, such as fruit, vegetables, meat, etc... Another interesting thing about it was that they would have at least a sales person in several aisles that would stay there and talk to people about the products in that aisle.

Day 3 was Monday and was my first day at my company's office. My director also taught me some Korean good manners, such as:

- You don't whistle

- You don't give your hand to your boss. You wait him to give his hand, and then you shake.

- You don't pat on your boss' shoulder

An adveture in Korea - Day 1

Hi... I'm not into blogging but I couldn't miss the opportunity to share with family, friends, and acquaintances my adventure in Korea.

I work for a multinational Korean company in Brazil and as part of the project that I'm involved in they sent me to Korea by myself to get some training for 10 days.

Ok... That should be enough for introduction.

I took an airplane from SP to L.A. and then from L.A. to Seoul, where I spent slightly less than 24 hours in the same airplane. Korean Air is a very good company, I would probably give them 5 stars, but 24 hours in an airplane is just too much.

After arriving at the hotel around 7:00am I slept all day long and woke up at 9:00pm. As you can imagine I was pretty hungry so I decided to get something to eat and took a cab at the hotel to YangJae station.

When we got to the subway station I asked the cab driver: "Food? eat?"... He would repeat the same words back to me with some confusion in his face. Then I said: "McDonald's". Taxi driver: "Oh McDuh! McDuh!" Me: "YES!!!! McDuh! McDuh!!!"

On my way to "McDuh" I found a Korean restaurant across the street and decided to go there.

When I got to the restaurant I asked the waitress to bring whatever she wanted. She brought me some pork soup with a buch of vegetables, sticky rice, kimchi, green peppers, and some sauce. After trying some of that food I concluded that the water was the only consumable thing there. I paid ₩6,000 for the meal, which is about $5.40 USD, and ended up going to "McDuh."

Now is 01:15am and my biological clock is all messed up. Lemme go to bed and try to get some sleep 'cause church starts tomorrow at noon.