Sight seeing / E Mart solo mission

Alright. Today is Sunday, and it was a day off for me. It's only 12:51pm, so my day is only half over. I got up nice and early today. I went for a little walk today to E Mart, and I took a round-about way back home. I came across some nice picture opportunities.

I also braved a trip to E Mart on my own. It was much less busy today than yesterday. I didn't venture down to the grocery floor, but I discovered the first two floors. They had almost everything we have here! The containers all look the same, but the language on the labelling is different. It is pretty interesting. I bought an alarm clock, paper towels, a beach towel (I've been using tiny little towels after showers), and a cup for the washroom to hold my tooth brush and tooth paste.

Here are the pictures from today (thus far...)

Tony the tiger! This is what I have been having for breakfast

E Mart!

Another view of E Mart just down the street a bit, looking up at the sign.

A sculpture in front of E mart

Another sculpture at the other end of E Mart

This confused me the first time I stepped on it. It was VERY busy the first time I was on it, so I just looked at the front part. I stepped on, expecting it to descend and form into steps. That didn't happen!

It's a ramp that is used by shopping carts! Very smart. If I was there alone I would stand on the back of the shopping cart and ride the ramp down!

I wonder if you get in trouble for that...

The Hyundai Department store. It's very very big. Probably around 4 or 5 levels, but I have only explored the first of those. They have a burberry store there. My goal is to make enough money over the year to justify buying either a tie or a scarf!

Entrance to a pedestrian only section. There is a significant amount of litter everywhere. I have a few theories on this. There is a severe lack of public garbage cans. The reason for that is that you need to buy special garbage bags - ones that have your area of the city printed on it. I suppose the city doesn't fund the purchase of these bags, or doesn't want to have recycling mixed with garbage. (That's a big no-no here too).

This is a pool hall. The national symbol for a billiard hall is a red, blue and green ball next to each other. There are several of these around. They are very popular.

Also a popular practice is parking on the corner of intersections. I've seen this a lot. Sometimes people will park perpendicular to this van's direction and fit up to 3 cars on the corner!!

As I mentioned above, It is only 1:16pm. I will be going out later with my camera. I'm sure I will get more pictures!! Keep checking and commenting!

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Keep in touch,

Ian