blog #6

Weekends are to short, especially when you have a crazy fun one like we just did. Friday was all standard, nothing really to talk about; I was super tired when the day was over. So the night just kind of went BLA. Saturday on the other hand, was crazy fun. We slept in till about 10:00, then we had breakfast (home-made bop[rice] dish). After that Duck and I will start attending Korean class’ on Saturday for two hours, and lasts for 3 months. It only costs 3$ a month, and included language class’, field trips, and snacks. If I am able to have a simple conversation with Korean people when I leave the class, then it will be worth the trouble. When we left our apartment Saturday morning, we knew that we were not going back, so we had prepared for the whole day/night trip. So after class we went to Sumyeon(the middle of the city), we are told that it’s the main nightlife part of the city. So we stocked our bellies and some bags with alcohol, the list includes: 2 bottles of soju, 2 bottles of rice wine, and 2 bottles of some other stuff that was better tasting than the other two. So we get to gwungonlee(?) beach for the much anticipated Fire-works extravaganza. We arrive 5 hours early and get a great spot, duck and I, Ryan, and Shannon. We some other new friends and Brian and Jess come a little later. To put it mildly the fireworks show was fucking incredible. I’m not a good enough writer to put it into words, that’s why a video will be on my f-book page shortly. The fireworks were being set off on barges that were in the ocean, there were 5 of them. Each of them carrying countless number of bobbers, sparkles, twirlers, zingers, spitters, do-dodders, and co-tadlers, but all of them were very, very powerful fireworks. I heard today from another teacher, that the fireworks themselves ran the city about 600,000 U.S.D. As a visual, I want you to remember the biggest fireworks finale you have ever seen, then multiply it by 5 and make it last for an hour and that’s the Busan fireworks festival.

Afterwards all 6 of us, walked back from the beach to Brian and Jess’s house, rested there for awhile, then went to grab some food and drink. We all went a small cheap and delicious restaurant near kyongseong university, after eating and drinking for a grand total of 19$, some went home, and the rest played girl fighter. Girl fighter is a video game that…is usually played when you are hammered fucked up, and is best played with two groups, one Korean, other Western. So ill tell you how it’s played, first insert coins about 30 cents, then a bag that is about a foot tall and 7 or 8 inches wide pops up. Then you punch the living shit poop out of the bag, and it will tell you how hard you punched it. This is why, as you can imagine, why it is so fun to play under the influence and with a bunch of people. Oh yea, I almost forgot, you can elbow (Sam’s preference), kick, or knee it for whatever your forte might be. After girl fighter we were all a little worn out, so we went home to sleep the day off.