Adventures In Korean Food!! ( and other random goodness)

Last Night me and Andrew met up with Mike K, Michelle and Kathy to grab Korean food. For me to get Korean food is rare, but I have to make that concession when I have guests in the city. It's just something you got to do here. Besides, the place I picked has food I actually like. It's spicy as hell and I usually end up drinking a ton of water, but I still love eating it. Oddly, Andrew was the only person NOT complaining about the spicy food. However, he's also from New Orleans so there's a good chance he's used to spicy stuff. If not for the abudance of pork, he's fit right in with Koreans and their love for hot food.

Me and Drew also got a chance to hit up a few game stores while we were downtown. He was amazed at the stuff the stores here carry (much like I was. . . I shudder to think what will happen when I visit Japan.) and we both ended up getting stuff here. I found a Hori arcade style fighting stick for the PS2/PSone. Because it was used and an older item, it was cheap (about $9.75 American). I got a converter for it and it now works on my PS3. Drew grabbed a PSP game for himself and then he got a few items for the crew back home.

I got to say it's nice to have part of the crew here. I have made some good friends here, but I can't replace the crew back home.

I'm supposed to go see "Watchmen" tonight. I have been looking forward to it. Despite the mixed reviews, I am curious as to how well the movie will translate the dense source material. I might post a mini-review about it, especially considering that I'm watching it over here instead back home. In the states, I would be watching it with a group of comic book heads who more than likely know it front to back. Here, I'm just curious.

Today was the start of my week long English camp. It was odd being in a room of kids younger than 6th grade. They were a little different. Unlike normal school, I'm in the room by myself. That freaked me out a bit because I'm not used to that. It wasn't horrid and in some ways it's kind of fun. The kids were mostly good, but I don't know if that's because it's that it was new to them.

I kind of like the energy of the younger kids. Generally they were better behaved than my usual middle school kids. What was odd was that I could give instructions in English and they mostly got it. That NEVER happens with the older kids. But from my understanding, the kids in the camp were picked because they are BETTER at English than usual.

Either way, 4 days to go.

Because it was such a short day, I was downtown around 1pm and I was shocked at the number of elderly folk. They are EVERYWHERE!! I was in the mall above Banwoldang Station and they were just sitting on every bench. I have seen random old people just sitting in this country but it's odd to see the massive numbers of them out and about. They generally do nothing. . . just sit in groups or on benches and talk to each other. That is odd compared to back home.

Because I'm so used to being at school during the day, It's a little odd to suddenly have time on my hands. I'm trying to figure out what to do with myself because I think it's a waste to go home and sit in my apartment. I pretty much just came home after doing some light exploring and went to sleep. . . . untlil 11 at night! THAT'S JUST SICK!