A disclaimer + weekend in Seoul

well, after uploading those photos I realized that there was something I wanted to say in regards to all those photos of us doing peace signs or whatever, its a Korean thing and we're doing it in jest, Koreans think its cool to do a peace sign at the camera and say "kimchi!" en lieu of "cheese!".....super gay.....so don't judge me bitch

Anyways, had a bit of bad news last weekend we went bowling with Bryce and Sandra and my digital camera got knocked off the table and broke! So we have no camera until we get paid so you won't see any photos for a little while....lmao. I bought a disposable camera, I just hope that we'll be able to get the photos digitally.


We had a short week this week because Friday was Korean Independence Day which was nice. Add the fact that Thursday we went on a field trip so it was an easier week. We went to "cookieland," which was an exhibit where there were depictions of fairy tales (sleeping beauty, snow white etc.._) history and some art all made of cookies, cakes, candies and other foods.....it was pretty ridiculous. The kids did some cookie making and cake decorating. They also showed us this 20 minute cartoon also called Cookieland which was completely absurd. It involved two people being turned into cookies and they followed a "delicious feces-dropping bird" to a land made of cookies, chocolate and candy where they're love of all things sweet brings about the demise of cookieland to some fungus monsters. Quite strange.

So we decided to take advantage of the 3 day weekend and head up to Seoul on Friday to hang out with Sam and his friends. Needless to say, the weekend was a blast and a blur, we went to Hongdae Friday night and hit up a bunch of bars. We ended up at a bar chain called "Ho Bar" at like 4 where we bought a bottle of Jim Bean and Sam did his Mick Jagger dance to booming Korean-techno-pop to the absolute delight of the entire place. Seriously, they loved it. We were hung over as shit all day Saturday, we went for some pretty awesome duk galbi and then slept the rest of the afternoon. After waking up we went out for some sushi and then we went to Itaewon for some beers and the first premier league games of the season (soccer). Itaewon is an extremely international area and when we got off the subway I didn't see any Koreans for a while. We went to the Wolf's head pub and had ourselves a time, it felt just like home actually, the bar was packed with Brits, Americans and Canadians. There were also lots of US soldiers there, it was the fist time I'd seen any here and they were really cool, I think Talor and I each had at least 4 drinks bought for us. We also met Sam's friends Dave and Ciaran who were really cool. Talor had an old Korean guy dance with her, to Elvis I think, it was really funny, he bought her some flowers afterwards also and gave his name card (business card, its a big deal for Koreans). He was a character. We were at the Wolf's Head till about 2:30 then we went for a drink at the hard rock cafe actually. It was a good time and Sam was very hospitable to Talor and I, shacking us up in his apartment. We'll definitely be making many more trips to Seoul, we'll actually do some sightseeing in the future rather than just drink the whole weekend....well I'm sure we'll still drink the whole weekend.

We laughed about this all weekend.

Ben