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Threw pizza parties for all my classes on my last day as a teacher at the Academy. Had dinner with Cathy, Brian, and Sue at Nolita (a nice Italian wine bistro in Kangnam) and went to Itaewon (it's pretty sketchy at night when the streets are flooded with foreigners!)
Took a cable car up to the mountains, then went up Seoul Tower at night. The view of Seoul was beautiful at night with all the pretty lights and lit up bridges by the rivers.
Re-visited TechnoMart, Itaewon, and Apgujeong with John. A lot of people stared at him as if they'd never seen a white man before, it was rather entertaining.
Rode the KTX (Korea Train eXpress)which was very smooth and with speeds of up to 301 km/h down to Busan, the second largest city in Korea! Went up Busan Tower for a lovely view of Busan, took a picture with a famous korean actress whom we ran into at the restaurant, walked around the "Rodeo" streets of Busan, saw the Jalgalchi Market (the largest fish market I've ever seen!), ate very fresh (and yummy!) seafood, walked up and down the populated, but beautiful beaches (the water was strangely warm!), got a tour of a huge food company (saw some of the huge machines and stepped into a huge, and freezing, freezer to cool off), my dad's friend drove us in his car to see every single beach along busan/the south-eastern tip of south korea, checked out the place that hosted APEC...ahh, Haeundae Beach was my favorite.
Went to Lotte World again, this time with John and Hiro. Lotte World is the largest indoor amusement park in the world, and ranked seventh worldwide in attendance, not bad? The log ride was definitely the most fun part... the heaviest person sat in the front, the second heaviest person sat right behind him, and I sat in the back seat by myself... so we got soaked, whereas everybody else who was on the ride got off looking completely dry.
Lasty, had lunch with my cousins and aunts and uncles...What a lovely 2.5 months in Korea!
Took a cable car up to the mountains, then went up Seoul Tower at night. The view of Seoul was beautiful at night with all the pretty lights and lit up bridges by the rivers.
Re-visited TechnoMart, Itaewon, and Apgujeong with John. A lot of people stared at him as if they'd never seen a white man before, it was rather entertaining.
Rode the KTX (Korea Train eXpress)which was very smooth and with speeds of up to 301 km/h down to Busan, the second largest city in Korea! Went up Busan Tower for a lovely view of Busan, took a picture with a famous korean actress whom we ran into at the restaurant, walked around the "Rodeo" streets of Busan, saw the Jalgalchi Market (the largest fish market I've ever seen!), ate very fresh (and yummy!) seafood, walked up and down the populated, but beautiful beaches (the water was strangely warm!), got a tour of a huge food company (saw some of the huge machines and stepped into a huge, and freezing, freezer to cool off), my dad's friend drove us in his car to see every single beach along busan/the south-eastern tip of south korea, checked out the place that hosted APEC...ahh, Haeundae Beach was my favorite.
Went to Lotte World again, this time with John and Hiro. Lotte World is the largest indoor amusement park in the world, and ranked seventh worldwide in attendance, not bad? The log ride was definitely the most fun part... the heaviest person sat in the front, the second heaviest person sat right behind him, and I sat in the back seat by myself... so we got soaked, whereas everybody else who was on the ride got off looking completely dry.
Lasty, had lunch with my cousins and aunts and uncles...What a lovely 2.5 months in Korea!