Sorta like back home

When living in a new country, particularly one as removed as Korea, a person starts to yen for their life back home. Luckily a little patience and an inquisitive nature often helps to assuage these feelings. In Canada there was nothing I enjoyed more than playing my playstation and drinking slush. Well did I luck out, I found a playstation-bang, and a place that sold slushes. In Korea there are these big buildings which are pasted with banners telling you what types of businesses are to be found within. This is well and good when you understand Korean, but we poor Waeguks are often left dazzled in the neon so to speak. Often we only get the privelege of frequenting the businesses that are on the ground floor, because we can peek our heads in and see that indeed the business is a Gimbapjjip, Osteology clinic or Baskin Robbin's. Lately I have taken to exploring the upper floors just as a matter of course. My first big reward has been the Playstation-bang. I guess its sort of a metaphor for my life, I don't really feel alive unless I am able to check out the occasional upper floor. Life for me is usually found in the secret places.