see lish, i'm keeping my promise.
i keep remembering random shit from cali and my first days here in korea.
for example, my first impression: seoul is like chinatown, but everywhere. and in korean.
the apartment that i'm staying in is okay sized, and with heated wood floors. that pretty nice. just studio/bachelor style with a separate closet for a washing machine.
the bathroom consists of a toilet and a sink with a hose over it.
and the hot water comes very randomly, which makes every showering experience an adventure.
i keep remembering random shit from cali and my first days here in korea.
for example, my first impression: seoul is like chinatown, but everywhere. and in korean.
the apartment that i'm staying in is okay sized, and with heated wood floors. that pretty nice. just studio/bachelor style with a separate closet for a washing machine.
the bathroom consists of a toilet and a sink with a hose over it.
and the hot water comes very randomly, which makes every showering experience an adventure.
so my first night, i met mark's buddies - al, craig and jordan (the other canadian here) and they're a pretty comfortable group to spend time with.
al's from brisbane and craig is from somewhere in england.
i don't remember what i talked to them about because i was jetlagged and drunk off free plane beers and the beer that they were already drinking.
here you can drink and anywhere and smoke anywhere you can eat i think.
the next day was new year's and that was pretty interesting.
we didn't go to city hall as was planned, but we ended up in a foreigner bar which was all right.
fucking packed with white people. it felt like home :)
and after that we lit up some roman candles in the alleyway. it was festive.
we planned to celebrate 5 different new yearses, but slept through england's so we compensated by celebrating calgary's unexpectedly.
we wanted to be at canada buddy for toronto new year's, but it was closed. so we all sat outside in the walkway, and raised our respective bottles of wine and champagne as the toronto was introduced to 2007. it was pretty nice.
later that night we watched 007.
the theatres have assigned seating, which was pretty funny because there were only 2 groups in the whole place.
the day after, mark took me to lotte world which is an amusement park. it's pretty big and busy and packed with lotsa random rides. it was alright. i like rides. we spent most of our time in the restaurant drinking beers through.
apparently here it's uncommon to order just beer. so we ordered a plate of chicken and 7 beers, which the waitresses found quaint.
im assuming nobody else really does that. well, we're canadian and that's how we do.
nothing much else really happened that day.
my last blog detailed yesterday.
last night we got chicken, and the dude at the store was really cute trying to speak english to me.
dude:where are you from
me:canada
d: you speak korean?
m:no
d: you look oriental.
m: i'm from the philippines.
d:oh philippines. haha okay.
end scene.
we also ordered a 3000 cc pitcher of beer to share, which the dude thought was funny too.
and afterwards we each had a bottle of wine, which all in all was a pretty good night.
so here we are. my day today.
i was pretty optimistic - it was skirt weather.
one of the first things i saw when i was walking down the street was this fat boy grunting and dancing to music on his ipod. it made me giggle.
i almost died though, by mis-swallowing a fry. my throat was discomforted for at least 20 minutes, but i survived.
i spent most of my day around city hall. however, i'm not quite sure which building was city hall.
i wandered around a traditional marketplace (namdaemun) and there were many interesting little markets and respective odours.
lots of heart, dismemebered pigheads/snouts, liver, and general entrails were my welcoming to the place.
they sold lotsa shit for cheap but i didnt really need anything, so i didn't get anything there.
wandering around, i stumbled upon Myeong-dong, which is a really nice shopping place. i really shouldn't have shopped. i really really should conserve my money. but some of the stuff was so cute and cheap, so it was hard not to take advantage of it.
i would have loved to have taken my girlfriends there, cuz there were quite an assortment of cute shops.
the day after, mark took me to lotte world which is an amusement park. it's pretty big and busy and packed with lotsa random rides. it was alright. i like rides. we spent most of our time in the restaurant drinking beers through.
apparently here it's uncommon to order just beer. so we ordered a plate of chicken and 7 beers, which the waitresses found quaint.
im assuming nobody else really does that. well, we're canadian and that's how we do.
nothing much else really happened that day.
my last blog detailed yesterday.
last night we got chicken, and the dude at the store was really cute trying to speak english to me.
dude:where are you from
me:canada
d: you speak korean?
m:no
d: you look oriental.
m: i'm from the philippines.
d:oh philippines. haha okay.
end scene.
we also ordered a 3000 cc pitcher of beer to share, which the dude thought was funny too.
and afterwards we each had a bottle of wine, which all in all was a pretty good night.
so here we are. my day today.
i was pretty optimistic - it was skirt weather.
one of the first things i saw when i was walking down the street was this fat boy grunting and dancing to music on his ipod. it made me giggle.
i almost died though, by mis-swallowing a fry. my throat was discomforted for at least 20 minutes, but i survived.
i spent most of my day around city hall. however, i'm not quite sure which building was city hall.
i wandered around a traditional marketplace (namdaemun) and there were many interesting little markets and respective odours.
lots of heart, dismemebered pigheads/snouts, liver, and general entrails were my welcoming to the place.
they sold lotsa shit for cheap but i didnt really need anything, so i didn't get anything there.
wandering around, i stumbled upon Myeong-dong, which is a really nice shopping place. i really shouldn't have shopped. i really really should conserve my money. but some of the stuff was so cute and cheap, so it was hard not to take advantage of it.
i would have loved to have taken my girlfriends there, cuz there were quite an assortment of cute shops.
there was a girl holding a 'free hug' sign, so i gave her a hug and giggled for a bit after that, thinking about what that would get me if i did that in the t-dot.
on my way home, though, there was this creepy old dude sitting beside me, who was 'falling asleep' and at one point his finger carressed my bare thigh. it made me so uncomfortable and i thought i was gonna throw up in my mouth a little bit.
i mean, it wasn't much, but i still felt violated. it's just wrong.
so that put me in a bad mood.
i promised myself that for every time i don't get lost, i'm gonna get a couple bottles of wine to celebrate. and since i was wandering today, i couldnt really be lost.
but that old dude put me in such a bad mood that i didnt feel like getting celebratory wine.
sigh.
i'm still waiting to see what we're doing tonight.
