Headline: White Man Confused by Giant Sojus

On Saturday morning, I woke up at the crack, and headed off for Korean class. We learned how to say pervert, ghost, and gangster, and how to ask what Korean words mean in English, and vice versa. After class, our group, and the advanced group and the teachers all went off for lunch together. Note: if something is listed on the menu as “pizza” anything, it just means it has cheese on it.

After lunch, Daniel, the minister of the church from whom we’re ripping off Korean lessons came and took us to the Changgyeonggung palace, near Hyehwa. We saw all the sights, including the flagpole that is a national treasure, and the place where they buried the prince’s placenta and umbilical cord. Also of note: at one point Japan totally pwned the palace, and they turned it into a zoo, just because they hated the Koreans and they wanted to degrade them. You sure showed them...



After the palace, BBRO and I headed off to meet Kendra – finally, a week after she’s been here. She lives at Cheonho, on the purple line, and both her school and her apartment are amazing. Avalon is definitely no YBM, we’ll say that… We met some of the teachers from Kendra’s school, and all of us went to Hongdae to a concert supporting AIDS. The music was fairly horrible, but the drinks were cheap, so it didn’t much matter.

Kendra's School:


My School:


After a few hours, we went back to Kendra’s building, and there’s a noraebang IN the building! We went there for a few hours, and sang lots of jams. At one point, one of the guys left for a smoke, and came back with a middle-aged Korean man, who apparently lives in the building. He sang a song in Korean. It was utterly bizarre, and amazing. Then, Mr. Kim (I don’t know what his actual name is, but odds are--) left. About 10 minutes later, he came back, and started taking beers out of his jacket pocket. Somehow he had 7 huge beers in there. He was awesome…

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Sunday was meant to be an extra-exciting day, and we had lots planned, but it turns out that after out night of noraebanging, that we were all a little tired, so we didn’t even get on the road until about 2:30. Since we couldn’t find the sex museum, which was our original plan, we headed to Itaewon for some shopping. The first person we saw there was one of the guys from Kendra's school, who is also (by the way) our new arch nemesis.

Afterwards, we headed back to Cheyongyangni for dinner, but both of our “places” were closed. So we got some sort of spicy soup. It was the first time for Kendra to eat sitting on the floor, her first kimchi, and her first try with chopsticks, so it was pretty entertaining.

Lastly, we went back to Hyehwa, because on our journeys through the day before, we found an Iceberry, which we can clearly never resist. On our trek back to the subway, there were these 5 guys dressed as huge bottles of soju. There was a lady from some news thing too, who was trying SO hard to get a picture of me with them.