Living in South Korea: It's Officially Summer in Korea!

Well hello, again! :)

As promised, I am back with some fun stories to share. This past Wednesday was a holiday in Korea, so we had no school. This meant we had the day to do whatever and I chose to hang out with a few good friends, Pete and Fritz. We went to the park by my apartment, laid on a blanket in much too tall grass and ate ice cream for a while. Then we went grocery shopping with Pete’s car. I must say, it’s quite nice going to the grocery store knowing you don’t have to carry everything back home. We brought my stuff home and met up with Birdie at a new coffee shop called Treatti. From there we headed to the Gwangyang World Art Circus Festival!! :D The four of us met up with Kerry, Nikki, Ki Nam, Toni, and Paul. We went and watched one of the performances there called Karma. This particular one has a Cirque Du Soleil feel to it and is performed by Koreans, Chinese and a Russian girl. I note this because on the festival’s website it mentions that it’s an international performance made up of Chinese, Korean and Russian performers, but there is only one Russian. I thought that was funny!

The show was pretty interesting. I’d never been to anything like it. It started off with the Russian girl on a pole doing some really artsy pole dancing. Then they got into the story of Karma and someone else whom I don’t remember. Haha From there some fun acts were on like the boys juggling their hats, another great one with boys and teenagers flipping through various sized hula hoops (sadly no pictures of that) and some little kids playing in there tubes. They weren’t playing, but they made it look so easy! All in all, it was a great show, and definitely worth going to see.

Enjoy some pictures below:

At the entrance!

Waiting for the show to start :)

Excited with our not so yummy popcorn! haha

Fritz after the show with a few of the performers

The highlights of my last few weekends include:

· Going to our usual Korean BBQ place with Lizzie, Pete, and Fritz where we ate and drank and then invited the owner over to join us. He’s a really nice guy, who talks to us in English sometimes. He got us playing the game Titanic, where you take a shot glass and place it in another glass already half full with a chaser like Coke. Then you go around the table pouring soju into the shot glass and whoever makes the glass sinks has to drink it. It’s a fun game and he kept having waiters bring over more and more soju and cola. It’s disrespectful to say no to an elder, so we weren’t really sure how to get out of the situation. Needless to say, we stayed there until 1:30am before heading to a norabong (singing or karaoke room) for a while longer. It was a fun night with good friends. :)

· Meeting up with Kate, Matthias, their friend Christian, and Fritz for shabu shabu followed by drinks at MiniStop, String and then to a noraebong for a bit.

· Shabu Shabu again last night with Kate, Matthias, some of their friends, Kate, Rhonda, Lizzie, Pete and Trey followed by String for an Open Mic Night.

I feel I’ve used too many words again, so let’s let the pictures speak for themselves!!