Ilsan: Medical Exam and Pizza Hut (May 23rd)

My co-teacher, Sun Jung, scheduled Erin and my medical exam for the same time Saturday morning at a hospital in Ilsan where her sister works as I'm not sure what and her brother-in-law works as a doctor.

Sun Jung, her husband, and their son picked us up in front of my apartment in their car and drove us 35 minutes to Ilsan. Ilsan is a nice city. It was my top pick, but we got Bucheon, which is probably a cooler city to live in for the convenience of being near Seoul. Anywho, we get out there and walk into the clinic where we have to take off our shoes and wear their special slippers. We were also shown to a locker room to leave our stuff in and change into the pink pajama-like clothes. They took our blood, urine, and xrays. They also did an EKG, which surprised Erin because she went in first and the nurse didn't warn her that she would be sticking suctions cup things all over chest. She even told me when she came out to be forewarned that she will open my shirt and stick them all over me...

Also, the staff couldn't speak English, so we had no idea what was going on the whole time and they kept laughing with us about the whole situation. Afterwards, we saw the doctor, who said we were healthy and then we met back up with Sun Jung and co. for lunch.

They took us to Pizza Hut. It was a nice gesture, but we would've gladly ate Korean food. Besides, the pizza here is not the same. Some of the crust was stuffed with cheese and the rest was stuffed with potato. They put weird toppings on the pizzas, like hash brown things, or squid, or crab or ramdom vegetables, but it wasn't bad. Erin got excited about the salad bar because she spotted nacho cheese and tortilla chips from our seats. But she was soon dissapointed to discover that the cheese was served cold in a container surrounded by ice. Weird.

Sun Jung's husband paid for the whole thing, including her sister's daughter and son and two other relatives that were in town. They also let me pick out a pasta dish to share and it was some kind of creamy alfredo-ish chicken pasta. Delish! We stuffed ourselves silly, and then walked through an exersise park, conveniently, and back to the car...