Long overdue post

Hey there to all 10ish of you who read this blog, I figured I'd finally make a post since it has been a while. This past weekend we spent in Seoul with our friends Kyle and Charisa.  They are the ones who actually helped us get on this crazy adventure is Korea-land.  After I finished my adult classes on Friday night Amanda and our school director picked me up and whisked us away to the bus terminal.  We were to get on the 9pm bus to Nambu station in Seoul.  The director was a little overbearing, actually getting on the bus with us to make sure we found our seat correctly.  It was a nice gesture, but made me feel like I was 5 years old. She then stood outside the window of the bus and just stood there waving until we left a few minutes later, it was a bit unnerving.

The view from Kyle and Charisa's roof

The bus ride was actually really pleasant,  Amanda and I talked about our experiences in Korea so far, having a lot of positive and a few negative experiences. While this job will indeed be one where we work for the weekend, at least the weekends will be AMAZING.  We arrived in Nambu station and met up with our friends, and they introduced us to the city of Seoul.  We made our way to the subway (right next door to the bus terminal) and we loaded money onto our T-Money cards.  Then we were well on our way to Goyang.

The subway was a nice ride, relaxing and pretty dead but I was too wired to sit for the hour long ride.  After arriving in Goyang we ate at a Korean restaurant, and went back to their apartment to relax for the rest of the evening.

SHARK

The next day we woke up around 10, and walked to get pastries from some places close to Charisa's apartment.  It was yumtastic, and after a shot hang out time in their apartment we headed off once again for Seoul.  Our goal was to walk along the Han River, there are trails and parks along the way and it is beautiful.    We also stopped at some place for food, which was very yummy and spicy, although I don't have a picture nor do I have a name for what we ate.  So it will be a mystery unless Amanda decides to post about it.

Walking trail on the Han River

We then went to the iPark Mall which is....a mall.  It is pretty damn big with 7 floors dedicated to electronics, and the best part is that you can haggle the prices down on a lot of the items so you can get a pretty good deal.  Like saving 140 dollars on a laptop!!!

At the river we had a very good time walking.  It was interesting to see that people are allowed to camp down by the river without getting bugged by Johnny Law, or get murdered in the middle of the night.  There was also a convenience store which had some food if we had wanted to eat.  Kyle bought a kite and we flew it like a god damn kite flying machine.

Amanda admiring the scenery

There was also a bridged that peed.  I think it drank too much juice.

After that we hopped on the subway to head to the foreigner district.  Itaewon was full of foreigners of all varieties.  While we were there we did a quick pass by the red light district, and "homo hill," before settling in at a Canadian Pub.  It was nice having some good western food, one of my biggest problems even though everything is spicy around here there are no Buffalo Wings for me to gorge myself on.  So we ordered some wings, and a burger and other delicious delicious honkey food.

The water spraying bridge at sunset

Overall the weekend was great, and we're lucky to have good friends.  We're hoping to get visitors soon, even though we've only been here (about) a month it has felt like forever, which is both good and bad.  We shall see how it goes in the future!