Bikes Rahmen and Weather

I have been biking a lot lately. Not serious biking, just good old 'transportation to and from places I am going' biking. Some days I feel that I am sort of one with the city. The lights go my way, the construction on the side of the road is conveniently part of my ride when traffic isn't whizzing by at 70 kmph and I don't see a motorcycle going the wrong way in the one way bicycle lane ahead of me... and other days I run over a fish as I am turning, not noticing its presence until I see it under my feet. Changwon is 'known' in Korea as being the most bike friendly. They have bikes set up all over the city that anyone can borrow for an hour for free and for less than a buck every hour after that. They have bike lanes everywhere. But the drivers here are absolutely bonkers. Maybe its because all it takes to get a license is money. I asked if the test was hard to get a license and I was met with blank stares. No. Of course not. I paid my money and get the license. Also, I have mentioned bus drivers a bit. They are the fastest way to get around the city, but cab drivers try their hardest to get you to your destination quickly. They will, at least at night, go through intersections with a red light, simply letting out a warning honk. How about u-turns like you have never seen. All over, and in akward ways where they end up in the middle of the intersection, traffic swerving around them. I realize this is not India, or one of those places where animals share the road and therefore make it much crazier, but because it LOOKS like a normal industrialized road sort of makes me think people should drive with a little sense. But then again I have yet to see a stop sign. Major roads have lights, but in the downtown areas you are supposed to know which road has the right of way and which car is more determined to go first. I am hoping to capture the different tpes of horns that I hear to share because they are out of a futuristic world.

On a side note: rahmen. I am exploring its many forms at our local restaurant. Tim makes his at home which is cheaper and smarter. But our restaurant puts wontons in their rahmen, cheese, and other delicious items. And it is always super spicy. I am working up the courage to ask a Korean to show me the secret to using chopsticks with their rahmen. I can manage, but they somehow are able to hold the chopsticks so that they are parallel to each other like the way that you find them in their little paper holder... only they can move them to this position and back with seemingly no effort, while I am gaining akwardly large muscles from the struggle to show that I do not need a fork, and feelings of ominous doom as my rahmen slowly slides away from me.

It is really hot around here. I wake up in the morning (yes I wake up in the morning now, not at 1pm anymore) and it feels like midday. It will get up to 75 today and the current weather is 73 and misty. Yeah, its pretty sweet. I take showers twice a day and would take them 3 times a day if I wasn't lazy when I get off of work.