Holla!
This is my first happy post since I came to Korea about three months ago. It might suck to read this one because I don't express myself well in writing when happy. So, Christmas a came along. Heppy Chlistmas Ebeebody! So I had some visitors come along for the Holidays. Lee, Claire, Natalie, Joanne, Daniel, Alicia (Kendra Hurshmann) and Joanne area all part of this fiasco. Just want to introduce the characters before the stories get along. "If that guy was here, we wouldn't be able to have a shit" (PS. That was just said right now) quote Lee Hines.
So the Christmas fun started on Saturday night. Headed out to Hongdae for some Tin Pan fun. Holy Hell. So Natalie, Joanne, Daniel, Hunyung, and I all head out to the bar. We have some drinks, some bi bim bop and are waiting for Sarah and Mark to get there to get some drink on. So we head to Tin Pan. This place is about the size of the main floor of the 'vil in Wolfville. It was packed! No room to move at all. So we are partyin it up, havin some drinks yadda yadda. I go to have a drink with seven of my friends and the BOOP I was alone for quite sometime. So I got up and went and danced with some strangers. Of course I was hammed and threw a huge bitch fit on the sidewalk on the way home. It was lovely.
The next morning I drag ass out of bed to head to the airport to meet Lee and Claire. I get there and of course I can't find where the shit the arrival is for the flight. So i am wandering around. Picture this. Pants that were just the smallest step above sweat pants, my homeless man coat and a huge asian toque and my glasses. I was a fit sight to be seen. I thought the Koreans looked at me funny when I was lookin' normal....I broke a record. I had the whole Incheon airport stop and take a gander.
So I am walking/sludging around the airport and all of a sudden somebody pokes me in the back...luckily it was Lee and not some agishee tryin to give me a poke. What is it with the ass pokin here? so I meet Claire for the first time wearing Lee's sunglasses and looking like a homeless trucker.
This is getting very elaborate. So we come back to my place and chill for a bit and the drinkin' begins. I introduced this crew to Soju. Oh. PS Natalie and Joanne are sleeping on my floor still.....I have spunk. sorry sorry, I forgot about something. We went to a concert. So, we head to the Seoul Arts Centre to watch this symphonic production of White Christmas. We get there, can't find the right theatre because the arts centre is about the size of halifax peninsula. Jebus it was bit. Of course we try to ask for directions, no luck. Luckily Claire is a thinker and took a picture of a poster. So here we are. Only whities in miles running around showing people a picture of a picture to find our was. The concert was good after we got there. They played the nutcracker...HILARIOUS! They had ballet dancers on the noisiest stage on Earth. You could hear the smash of their landings oer the symphony. When the did the French Dance the dancers brought out a poodle strapped to a wheeled cart and started to drag it around. So we are all pretty knackered at this time and I hear Lee saying in a voice that was louder than intended "GET THE LAMB OFF THE STAGE!" so there we were 4 whities in a concert hall laughing out holes off. So after that we left and then came home and drank. On the way I bought two packs of Dick Sticks....thought that was quite the knee slapper.
The next day was Christmas Eve. So we got drunk of course. I wanted to show my friends the Norebang. So we head out to the Norebang. Get there and get in our room, pay for our hour and start a singin'. But in Korean tradition, many things are free. So we paid for one hour, for about three out of it. Best $15 i've spent in a while. So we leave the Norebang at 5 am on christmas eve night and decide to stop on our way home for some McDicks breakfast. So Christmas Eve party lasted until 6:30 in the morning.
Christmas morning rolls around to the sounds of Natalie saying "I'm gonna go get some plates" then responded with four grunts! So Natalie leaves and after a bit the rest of us get out of bed. Natalie returns home all pissed off because she got in a fight with a korean woman over a cake. Christmas cake is quite the craze here. So we head out to do some shopping. Big mistake on Christmas in Korea. It was so busy that I lasted about 45 mins before I peaced out and sat outside for the locals to stare at me and my cake. So basically we get home and have present time and just chilled out, ate Christmas dinner Konglish style and Daniel, Hunyung, and Alicia (Kendra Hurshmann) came over to go out.
We head to RMT but none of us could get drunk because the previous two days we had consumed 5L of Soju. Our tolerances were too high. So it was an early Christmas night. Oh I forgot. Nat brushed her teeth with apricot scrub.
So Boxing day I had to start back to work and that was cool. Same ol' crap. That's about it. Clint gets back tomorrow. I am pretty excited. Oh. We've been keeping a quote book. Here they are.
"If you're gonna creep, wear some sheep"
"Korea-The Irish of Asia"
"Christmas Carolueh"
"What kind of dog to they eat? - I don't know, but you'd think that different breeds would have different flavours"
"Do you mean Trishalina Brown? - No, I mean Abu Jafar brown"
"What happens in Asia, Stays in Asia"
"Ya ever have a 2 in 24?....More like a 2 in 6"
"I can't believe this is the day that Jesus died...or was born....PUT THAT IN THE QUOTE BOOK"
"This is too much work for someone I don't even really care for to come over on Christmas day"
"Oh, he's the cute one from your building. - I think he heard you. - Oh shit, he speaks English"
"Apricot Scrub...I'm gonna call your dumb moments Scrubbies"
This has been a far greater holidays than I ever expected. This visit has been the perk I've needed for some time now. I wish Japan was closer so we could all hang out more. Just wait for February when I'm off to Japan. Mmmmmm Brazilians.
There has been so much more that has happened, mostly with (Kendra Hurshmann) but I can't even begin to tell those stories. Sweet sweet embrace.
