If you want to be a rockstar....
be and English teacher in Korea, or just white.
First off I finally posted a ton of pictures.
Next, what's been happening the last bunch of days...
Saturday -
DMZ - We first ate at this restaurant and this random dude tried to get us eat this stuff called kimchee. Kimchee is a loose translation for "hell food" and I tried it cause it looked a little like pasta. It tasted like satan relocated hell to my mouth. The meat was pretty good though, and the watermelon went down well. Then we went to north korea and came back. The end. - Danny
Dinner - bibimbop. Yeah, it's really fun to say, but it wasn't that fun to eat. There was rice, so I ate that. And an egg, so I tried to eat that. But it was covered with other not good tasting stuff. Oh yeah and we went to diner with a bunch of Madison kids. There are about 60 of them in and around Seoul teaching English. So at dinner was Brian Jenks, Danny, me, Brian King (my best and favorite, "I'm So Bored w/ the USA" guest), Andy (turns out he was in my psych class), his girlfriend Emily (from UW too) and Stuart (knew him from WUD people). So even in Seoul, South Korea, Madison is really small.
Market - Things you could buy for 1,000 won ($1) - shoes, shirts, spinning hot dogs, more silkworm larve than you could ever want, 3 pair of socks and a ton of other pointless crap that I would never, ever need.
Bar - Wanted to order beer, but we had to order food also. So we got a $7 plate of french fries and tater tots. It came with two slices of cucumber. I ate those.
Sleep - Dong Bang motel. Shoes off in the room, bathroom sandles, the whole thing. Hard mats on the floor for sleeping. Major backpain.
Sunday -
Breakfast - chocolate cereal and milk. GOOD!
Prison Museum - really intense. Room after room of Japanese torturing Koreans. Lots of screaming, blood, rape, and litte kids walking around.
Palace - ate "sandwhiches" and "rice cakes" and ice cream. I've been eating a lot of ice cream. We dressed up in the tratitional Korean get up. Brian - King, Beth - Queen, Danny - giggle, giggle, giggle. Pictures are up at flickr.
Insadong - cool markets, no cars allowed on saturdays and sundays. Ate at a tofu place. Tofu and beef soup, I ate more than when I had bibimbop. Korean meals come with like 20 side dishes each. Like a fish, way too much kimchee and pieces of fruit smothered in mayo. But, at this place we got eggs to drop into the soup, so that was fun.
To Suwon - Where Brian lives, 1 million people, about 1/2 hour south of Seoul. His apartment is really small. There's a twin bed and the equivalent of a twin bed on the floor. And three people. Hmm.... The sink and toilet double as a shower. You close the door and take a shower while standing in front of the sink/mirror. Oh, and it's about 2 inches below the rest of the apartment. So the water doesn't get out of the bathroom.
Monday -
SCHOOL!!!
If you ever want to be a rockstar, be an English teacher in Asia. As soon as we started walking to school with Brian kids started screaming. "BRIAN TEACHER!!!! BRIAN TEACHER!!! HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO!!!!!!!!" So the day was really cool. It was halloween, we handed out erasers to kids who got the answers right. They don't know about the candy! Poor souls. The kids were really dumb sometimes. "What day was yesterday?" "computer games." "How are you today?" "Monday." No. But they tried. Those were the 5th graders. The 1st graders were really cute. Danny and I played soccer with the kids. I tried to get the girls to join me but they just giggled, covered their mouths and ran away. When we were leaving kids started screaming again, "BYE BRIAN TEACHER!!!! NICE TO MEET YOU!!!" They don't get what that means. Brian yells back, "You've known me 2 months!" They don't get it, but they mean well.
Dinner - neck or throat of some animal, possibly a pig. Cooked on a tiny grill in your table, wrap it in lettuce then shove the whole thing your mouth. Fun. Followed with... ice cream. Also had apples covered with mayo.
TUESDAY -
Korean Folk Village - one of Korea's biggest attractions. There's an amusement park too. We went on the viking with two middle school girls. They ran on and went to either side so Danny and I followed and the 4 of us had a screaming contest. It was fun. Then bumper cars like 5 times. Very fun. There were also a lot of school groups with a lot of "HELLO HELLO HELLO!!!" screaming five year olds. They don't see white people that often so they get really excited and scream hello. And then as soon as you say, "How are you?" they get nervous and turn around. We walked around a lot, went on traditional swings, ordered the wrong food, overpayed for it, ate really really bad corn, threw it out, bought 3 cups of dippin' dops, saw a few other white people for the first time since getting to seoul, watched traditional dancing, saw farm animals who had better corn than we bought, skipped the museums cause it was really nice outside, went on all the rides again and then got a bus back to the tourist center. Took pictures of funny signs. Check flickr.
Dinner - Went to the mall, tried to get Chinese food, realized the place closed, went to Burger King. I couldn't have been happier. Six piece chicken tenders and a Jr. Whopper. Yeah, that's right, and a Jr. Whopper. I was really hungry. No rice, no kimchee. I'm all about experiencing culture, but I'm also into eating food that tastes good to me once in a while. Brian and Danny got ice cream after. I skipped it. Two a day was enough for me.
Arcade - Then we went to the arcade in the mall. I dance dance revolutioned for the first time. Danny took video, don't worry. Brian and I also played some firefighting game. We saved people until the 3rd round, then they all died I guess. Oh well. After that we met up with two more Madison people (I didn't know them well but I've definitely seen them and probably introduced to them before). Then we walked one of them home through Suwon's red light district, which looked like a tiny version of Amsterdam, with all the rooms and sad girls sitting in the windows. Brian and I tried to get Danny to get a hooker, but then were interupted by the first person in Korea to kind of speak English, some drunk guy probably coming from some hooker's room. That was weird. But we talked to him for a bit. Something about New York, Boston and Chicago and maybe a stepfather. I don't know.
Then we went home. Then we slept.
WEDNESDAY -
TODAY!!! posted pictures, took a shower, wrote in the blog.
There is sooooooo much more to say but my hands are done typing for today.
Next entry will be about the funny/ridiculous things about Korea. Like... fan death and ghost people.
HAPPY HAPPY FUN FUN ASIA!!!!
First off I finally posted a ton of pictures.
Next, what's been happening the last bunch of days...
Saturday -
DMZ - We first ate at this restaurant and this random dude tried to get us eat this stuff called kimchee. Kimchee is a loose translation for "hell food" and I tried it cause it looked a little like pasta. It tasted like satan relocated hell to my mouth. The meat was pretty good though, and the watermelon went down well. Then we went to north korea and came back. The end. - Danny
Dinner - bibimbop. Yeah, it's really fun to say, but it wasn't that fun to eat. There was rice, so I ate that. And an egg, so I tried to eat that. But it was covered with other not good tasting stuff. Oh yeah and we went to diner with a bunch of Madison kids. There are about 60 of them in and around Seoul teaching English. So at dinner was Brian Jenks, Danny, me, Brian King (my best and favorite, "I'm So Bored w/ the USA" guest), Andy (turns out he was in my psych class), his girlfriend Emily (from UW too) and Stuart (knew him from WUD people). So even in Seoul, South Korea, Madison is really small.
Market - Things you could buy for 1,000 won ($1) - shoes, shirts, spinning hot dogs, more silkworm larve than you could ever want, 3 pair of socks and a ton of other pointless crap that I would never, ever need.
Bar - Wanted to order beer, but we had to order food also. So we got a $7 plate of french fries and tater tots. It came with two slices of cucumber. I ate those.
Sleep - Dong Bang motel. Shoes off in the room, bathroom sandles, the whole thing. Hard mats on the floor for sleeping. Major backpain.
Sunday -
Breakfast - chocolate cereal and milk. GOOD!
Prison Museum - really intense. Room after room of Japanese torturing Koreans. Lots of screaming, blood, rape, and litte kids walking around.
Palace - ate "sandwhiches" and "rice cakes" and ice cream. I've been eating a lot of ice cream. We dressed up in the tratitional Korean get up. Brian - King, Beth - Queen, Danny - giggle, giggle, giggle. Pictures are up at flickr.
Insadong - cool markets, no cars allowed on saturdays and sundays. Ate at a tofu place. Tofu and beef soup, I ate more than when I had bibimbop. Korean meals come with like 20 side dishes each. Like a fish, way too much kimchee and pieces of fruit smothered in mayo. But, at this place we got eggs to drop into the soup, so that was fun.
To Suwon - Where Brian lives, 1 million people, about 1/2 hour south of Seoul. His apartment is really small. There's a twin bed and the equivalent of a twin bed on the floor. And three people. Hmm.... The sink and toilet double as a shower. You close the door and take a shower while standing in front of the sink/mirror. Oh, and it's about 2 inches below the rest of the apartment. So the water doesn't get out of the bathroom.
Monday -
SCHOOL!!!
If you ever want to be a rockstar, be an English teacher in Asia. As soon as we started walking to school with Brian kids started screaming. "BRIAN TEACHER!!!! BRIAN TEACHER!!! HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO!!!!!!!!" So the day was really cool. It was halloween, we handed out erasers to kids who got the answers right. They don't know about the candy! Poor souls. The kids were really dumb sometimes. "What day was yesterday?" "computer games." "How are you today?" "Monday." No. But they tried. Those were the 5th graders. The 1st graders were really cute. Danny and I played soccer with the kids. I tried to get the girls to join me but they just giggled, covered their mouths and ran away. When we were leaving kids started screaming again, "BYE BRIAN TEACHER!!!! NICE TO MEET YOU!!!" They don't get what that means. Brian yells back, "You've known me 2 months!" They don't get it, but they mean well.
Dinner - neck or throat of some animal, possibly a pig. Cooked on a tiny grill in your table, wrap it in lettuce then shove the whole thing your mouth. Fun. Followed with... ice cream. Also had apples covered with mayo.
TUESDAY -
Korean Folk Village - one of Korea's biggest attractions. There's an amusement park too. We went on the viking with two middle school girls. They ran on and went to either side so Danny and I followed and the 4 of us had a screaming contest. It was fun. Then bumper cars like 5 times. Very fun. There were also a lot of school groups with a lot of "HELLO HELLO HELLO!!!" screaming five year olds. They don't see white people that often so they get really excited and scream hello. And then as soon as you say, "How are you?" they get nervous and turn around. We walked around a lot, went on traditional swings, ordered the wrong food, overpayed for it, ate really really bad corn, threw it out, bought 3 cups of dippin' dops, saw a few other white people for the first time since getting to seoul, watched traditional dancing, saw farm animals who had better corn than we bought, skipped the museums cause it was really nice outside, went on all the rides again and then got a bus back to the tourist center. Took pictures of funny signs. Check flickr.
Dinner - Went to the mall, tried to get Chinese food, realized the place closed, went to Burger King. I couldn't have been happier. Six piece chicken tenders and a Jr. Whopper. Yeah, that's right, and a Jr. Whopper. I was really hungry. No rice, no kimchee. I'm all about experiencing culture, but I'm also into eating food that tastes good to me once in a while. Brian and Danny got ice cream after. I skipped it. Two a day was enough for me.
Arcade - Then we went to the arcade in the mall. I dance dance revolutioned for the first time. Danny took video, don't worry. Brian and I also played some firefighting game. We saved people until the 3rd round, then they all died I guess. Oh well. After that we met up with two more Madison people (I didn't know them well but I've definitely seen them and probably introduced to them before). Then we walked one of them home through Suwon's red light district, which looked like a tiny version of Amsterdam, with all the rooms and sad girls sitting in the windows. Brian and I tried to get Danny to get a hooker, but then were interupted by the first person in Korea to kind of speak English, some drunk guy probably coming from some hooker's room. That was weird. But we talked to him for a bit. Something about New York, Boston and Chicago and maybe a stepfather. I don't know.
Then we went home. Then we slept.
WEDNESDAY -
TODAY!!! posted pictures, took a shower, wrote in the blog.
There is sooooooo much more to say but my hands are done typing for today.
Next entry will be about the funny/ridiculous things about Korea. Like... fan death and ghost people.
HAPPY HAPPY FUN FUN ASIA!!!!
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