Routine

Friday (and Thursday) of last week and Monday of this week were pretty routine.  We did this last time, too, but this time the engineer who has been here nearly continuously since February had everything almost done, so just a few days here and we can be done.

The routine is that we get up too early, to hit the emails that happen during everyone else's previous day.  Coffee in the hotel room (instant with a ton of creamer and sugar, I think I posted about this before), then about 1/2 hour before we need to be at the range we hit the little bakery in the bus station.  They have an espresso machine and can make Cafe Americano (what we Americans want when we say coffee) as well as espresso, capuchino and lattes.  It turns  out the Korean words for those drinks are just the english phonetic of those words rendered in Hangul.  I need to do a post on Koringrish.

Up the hill, surrender passport, get to work for 5 or so hours and then go to lunch.  This trip (like last) most of the lunches were at the Korean Chinese restaurant in Anheung Harbor.  I think I have a post on that restaurant in the older section.  Black bean noodles and pork mandu (essentially pork fried wontons, but better, you dip them in your own mix of soy, vinegar and dried Korean red pepper).

Back up the hill and work another 5 to 6 hours.  Put up with the stares of the workers as the clock heads for 6 PM and they have to stay to "escort" us until we are done for the day.

Drop all the stuff at the hotel.  Send out status and question emails and walk to dinner.  Dinner was a variety of restaurants, most of which I did not take any pictures of.  This trip, various kinds of hot marinated pork belly, smoked duck, garlic chicken and cutlets.  Not much rice.

Emails from home start again.  Call home in early morning their time and chat.  Odd because you are just ending your day and they are just starting.  Cut off email at 9 PM (or go insane).  Rad and go to bed.  Rarely blog.