I will admit to being disappointed in myself for my lack of blogging these past few months. This doesn’t mean that the winter months have left me completely bored and lonely, though they have perhaps slowed things down a little.. and maybe made me a little lazier. However, there’s still been time for adventuring:
1) Attending a coworkers wedding: an opportunity to experience the true Korean ceremony, which involved sharing shots of Soju with the bus driver at 2pm.
2) Working Christmas day, but still managing to celebrate the holiday festively: a virtual present opening with my parents and siblings, a wonderful Christmas breakfast and afternoon with Lynn, and a delicious traditional dinner with fellow foreigners.
3) Welcoming 2008 in a typically outrageous fashion: ringing in the New Year in the back of the cab, obnoxiously screaming at passers-bys and harassing the cabdriver, and all this before we even made it to the bar for the real gong show to begin.
4) Partying with my director and learning the secrets of his past: his #2 hit on the Korean charts in 1997, his attempt at Priesthood, and his childish personality that had frolicking around the department store and spending money on an air rifle bb gun (and plenty of drink, food and norae) instead of paying us on time.
More unforgettable experiences to appropriately conclude 2007, and welcome 2008!
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Simple Pleasures
“If all the snowflakes were chocolate bars and milkshakes
Oh what a wonderful snow fall it’d be.
Standing outside with my mouth open wide,
ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah”
Few things excite me in quite the same way as the first snowfall. Sadly, however, I live in a part of the country where such weather is rare, a sad reality for someone who gets so much enjoyment out of it. However, on the way home from the bar last weekend, a wonderful thing happen. Snow – big, fluffy flakes.. it was beautiful! However, my desire to frolic in the night snow fall was hindered by the amount of soju I had consumed .. sadness. But, then yesterday I was granted a second chance. On my way to the subway it started flurrying. As people stepped out of stores, they had confused looks on their faces, some looked up, quizzically, as though questioning what was being thrown at them. Kids looked excited, one child put out his arms and began spinning, screaming and looking up at the sky. It was fabulous, and I could definitely feel his excitement. So I stuck out my tongue like a small child and caught for myself a Korean snowflake. Delicious.
Oh what a wonderful snow fall it’d be.
Standing outside with my mouth open wide,
ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah”
Few things excite me in quite the same way as the first snowfall. Sadly, however, I live in a part of the country where such weather is rare, a sad reality for someone who gets so much enjoyment out of it. However, on the way home from the bar last weekend, a wonderful thing happen. Snow – big, fluffy flakes.. it was beautiful! However, my desire to frolic in the night snow fall was hindered by the amount of soju I had consumed .. sadness. But, then yesterday I was granted a second chance. On my way to the subway it started flurrying. As people stepped out of stores, they had confused looks on their faces, some looked up, quizzically, as though questioning what was being thrown at them. Kids looked excited, one child put out his arms and began spinning, screaming and looking up at the sky. It was fabulous, and I could definitely feel his excitement. So I stuck out my tongue like a small child and caught for myself a Korean snowflake. Delicious.
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