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Oh man, SUCH a good weekend. Halloween was totally exhausting, but I got up early Saturday morning to get on the KTX train to meet Colleen, who is an 08 Smithie, in Daegu. (Duckett, in case you're interested.) I took extra time before leaving to wash the dishes, and had to rush to catch my train. Fortunately everything is super-well labeled.
The KTX is FAST, about 200 mph, and has this uncanny ability to lull people to sleep. The stops and transfer stations play the same music as the Seoul metro. I did a little bit of my HQ contract work on the train, but mostly I slept.
I arrived at 9:40ish and went to meet Colleen. There are even fewer Westerners in Daegu than in Seoul, so finding each other was pretty easy. We dropped off my stuff and went off, kim bap in hand, to climb Apsan. (I just found out "san" means mountain." If you tell a Korean that you climbed Apsan, they laugh at you because it is basically a tiny little hill compared to the mountains people usually climb.
But man, we worked HARD. We got to the top and ate our kim bap, AND Colleen is a domestic goddess who made tiny wonderful apple pies on her STOVETOP. Wowie kazowie.
It was a GORGEOUS day (November 1st and I was wearing a t-shirt), and at the top they had popsicles!
We took the cable car down to the bottom of the mountain. We were both kind of tired so we stopped for coffee and a rotibun, and read some of a 350-page Korean Cosmopolitan (seriously, I think Koreans INVENTED branding...you should see what they call their baseball teams) and eventually went off to Woobang Towerland!
We had so much fun, roller coasters and cable car rides and bumper cars and the carousel. There was a colored fountain too.
We went home shortly before the park closed, and got pizza and watched Ten Things I Hate About You. I crocheted too. Oh, so awesome.
The next day we ate amazing waffles.
And! We went and did Japanese photobooth sticker making! Oh man, it was so so much fun and also SO COMPLICATED. And everything was in Japanese. But now I have awesome photobooth stickers!
I went back to Seoul after that, and David Lee and I had Chinese food for dinner. OH, and he GAVE ME A GUITAR.
He will also teach me to play it. David is going to play keyboard at his friend's wedding in two weeks, so he went to practice with his friends, and asked if I could come along. So, I watched David and his old college bandmates practice L-O-V-E, which happens to be one of my favorite songs, and I did my Korean homework and crocheted some more. Then David walked me home, and I did some more contract work till I had to go to sleep.
So! Good good weekend!
Especially because of the whole presidential election thing.
Not happy with California though. Bah.
The KTX is FAST, about 200 mph, and has this uncanny ability to lull people to sleep. The stops and transfer stations play the same music as the Seoul metro. I did a little bit of my HQ contract work on the train, but mostly I slept.
I arrived at 9:40ish and went to meet Colleen. There are even fewer Westerners in Daegu than in Seoul, so finding each other was pretty easy. We dropped off my stuff and went off, kim bap in hand, to climb Apsan. (I just found out "san" means mountain." If you tell a Korean that you climbed Apsan, they laugh at you because it is basically a tiny little hill compared to the mountains people usually climb.
But man, we worked HARD. We got to the top and ate our kim bap, AND Colleen is a domestic goddess who made tiny wonderful apple pies on her STOVETOP. Wowie kazowie.
It was a GORGEOUS day (November 1st and I was wearing a t-shirt), and at the top they had popsicles!
We took the cable car down to the bottom of the mountain. We were both kind of tired so we stopped for coffee and a rotibun, and read some of a 350-page Korean Cosmopolitan (seriously, I think Koreans INVENTED branding...you should see what they call their baseball teams) and eventually went off to Woobang Towerland!
We had so much fun, roller coasters and cable car rides and bumper cars and the carousel. There was a colored fountain too.
We went home shortly before the park closed, and got pizza and watched Ten Things I Hate About You. I crocheted too. Oh, so awesome.
The next day we ate amazing waffles.
And! We went and did Japanese photobooth sticker making! Oh man, it was so so much fun and also SO COMPLICATED. And everything was in Japanese. But now I have awesome photobooth stickers!
I went back to Seoul after that, and David Lee and I had Chinese food for dinner. OH, and he GAVE ME A GUITAR.
He will also teach me to play it. David is going to play keyboard at his friend's wedding in two weeks, so he went to practice with his friends, and asked if I could come along. So, I watched David and his old college bandmates practice L-O-V-E, which happens to be one of my favorite songs, and I did my Korean homework and crocheted some more. Then David walked me home, and I did some more contract work till I had to go to sleep.
So! Good good weekend!
Especially because of the whole presidential election thing.
Not happy with California though. Bah.