Only in Korea?

So, I've decided that my blog cannot just be about me and my friends. If I continue just writing what I do every day, it will look something like this: went to school, taught, chatted on msn for 3 hours, came home, went to April's/Karen's/Matt and Helen's to drink/watch a movie/talk, then we went out and I got home at 4 am/5 am/10 am.

In an effort to add some variety to my posts, I present you with.... moving day!

In Korea, many of the apartments are huge concrete blocks like Shidae, where I live. How do you move all your possessions up 15 storeys? Or even 2 for that matter? Well, you enlist the assistance of a moving van, naturally, and a crane thingy. This is a motorized platform. All your worldly possessions are loaded onto it and then lifted up to the balcony, where they are unloaded. Then the next batch goes up and so on.

For Kelly, Ellie, Heather, Ann, Katrina, Ina, Marc, and anyone else who has ever had to help me move - wouldn't it have been nice to just put the goddamn heavy box on a lifty thing like this and send it through the window?

So, the two pictures here are 1) someone moving into Shidae. I've taken the pic from my apartment. 2) a picture of someone moving into an apartment in Gwangju. This pic was taken by Brent and Stephanie during orientation back a month ago.