Christmas 2006 Party Part 2

Here are the videos that I took of the event. I hope you like them.

Christmas 2006 Party Part 1

So today, myself, Mike, Erin, Mikey, Shantel, Matt, Bobbie Jo, and Marina went to Rayne's house to have a Christmas dinner. We had pasta, mashed potatoes, salami, assorted veges, Soju, beer, wine and cider.

It was an excellent time. We then watched Season 5 of Family Guy. Rayne was passed out in the end...wine...lush...

Mike and Mikey were domestic gods cleaning up all the dishes in the end.

I also tooks some more photos and have some videos of the event. The videos are just us having some fun.

Birthday Party

On Friday, some friends (David, Rayne and Matt) celebrated my friends Dongse (in the green) and his girlfriends (in the black) birthday at the Dragon Bar in Nowon. Earlier, Dongse, his girlfriend and three other people went for some food. Delicious!

The Dragon was fun. Lots of drinks. Didn't stumble home until 4:30 in the am.

Last Christmas Post

Here is my favorite Christmas Song, Carol of the Bells

Merry Christmas part 2

Christmas Eve

Hello all!!!

I'll start out by saying that I am not the biggest Christmas fan, but I WILL NOT be a Scrooge to all those who read this blog. So, I will say to all those reading:

Have a wonderful Christmas and even better New Year! For those away overseas away from family and friends, you are always a phone call or email away from family and friends. Don't fret.

That was enough holiday cheer for me. Time to go to the bar and get drunk!

Adrian

Sorry

Sorry that I don't post more often. I don't have a computer and I'm too lazy to go to a PC Bang and spend money to post entries. I'm here now and I just put a lot of stuff on. I hope to buy a computer next month.

Here's a video of one of my favorite 80s bands. If you don't like it...then you suck.

Just kidding...


...no, seriously...

...I mean it...

...no I don't...

...or DO I?...

Meeting Aunt Hwa Ja and Stephen

So, this past Sunday, I traveled down to Ansan (안산) to meet my aunt Hwa Ja, her husband Stephen and thier children, Matthew and Ashley for the first time in my life. They currently live in Surfer's Paridise, Australia. Cool name, huh? My aunt looks just like my mother, but younger. It was kinda of freaky. So when you see the pictures, just think a little older and that's what my mother looks like. Both my aunt and uncle speak fluent Japanese, so their two small children speak, English, Korean and Japanese! Lucky! It was a real good time and the food spread was excellent. My grandmother keeps telling me that I have to learn Korean. So, I'm working hard at it!

Shabu Shabu

I don't know if Shabu Shabu is the right spelling. If it isn't, my bad. But that day, a group of us went down to Yongsan (용산) and spent a shitload of money on DVD's. For those who don't know, in Yongsan you can buy copied DVD's for real cheap. The lowest is 3000 Won! The people who sell these copies are real honest as well. If the quality is not good, they will tell you. At least that's how it has been in my experiences there. After that, we then proceeded to go back down to Sanggye (산계) Station and went to a real good Shabu Shabu place. I say real good as if I've had it before. Like with Fondue, it was my first time and it was excellent!

Gamba's Birthday

It was my co-worker's (Mike Gamba) birthday (12/14/06), so after work, we all went out for some galbi and soju! Mmmmmmmmmm....soju and galbi...

These are some of my co-workers...except for a couple of people.

Christmas Fondue

Ok, so a couple of weeks ago, I met my friends Shelly, Rachel Lynn, Jes, Heidi, Cam and Saejin at the All Swiss Chalet in Itaewon for a Christmas Fondue Dinner. I had never had fondue before, so I was a little leary (picky cheese person I am). But the fondue was great and I had Chocolate Fondue for dessert!!!! Yum! I had a great time, but I had to bail early because I'm watching my friends dog, Jack, for the month.

Sidenote: The part of Itaewon that I was in was nothing like the normal Itaewon. It was quite nice.

You make babies to these men

I'm just sayin...







...Enough said...

End of First Semester

It was the end of my first semester here at school and I thought that I would post some pics of a few of my classes.

Blogger!

Sometimes Blogger really sucks!!!!!!!!

Hrumph!

I want to dance to this song right now, but instead I'm at work working on student progress reports! HRUMPH!!!

Chuseok

Ok, so during the week of Chuseok, I had the opportunity to meet my grandmother and uncle for the first time of my life!

I met my aunt (Uncle's wife)at 상셰 station. My aunt doesn't speak english and I don't speak much Korean...



She read a book...

...I went to sleep on the train.

One hour and 45 minutes later...we arrived in 안산.

There are a lot of Middle Easterners in this area. A short bus ride later, I met some new family



When my grandmother saw me, she grabbed my hands and started to cry a little



We then ate some really delicious food. Kimbap, bulgogi, kimchi, dok, tofu jiggae. They kept commenting on how big I was...I don't know how to feel about that. My grandmother kept feeding me and feeding me. I felt like I was about to explode...

My uncle wanted to drink whiskey with me and was trying to get me drunk! Ha!



Yes, he IS that short. I was like Andre the Giant compared to them. I'm HUGE!

My uncle then had me watch Superman Returns and Mission Impossible 3.

Communicating was tricky. A lot of body language was used. They also were facinated with my Lonely Planet Phrasebook.

It would've been easier if I could speak more Korean than I can. I have to work on that.

It's weird meeting family for the first time. I really didn't go through alot of emotions. I didn't know what to feel at the time. I did know that this would make my mother and grandmother very happy. I was too.

I'll talk about meeting my grandmother for the first time later tonight or tomorrow morning.

Japan

Ok. Here is the post that I promised a long time ago, but never did. I few weeks back I went to Japan to get my VISA. The trip started out shitty because I had a cold. So, during the flight, my ears would not depressurize because of my cold. Let's just say that that is one of the most painful experiences of my life. Pain. The stewardess gave me some candy to help with the problem, but all it gave me was fresh breath. Did I mentioned the immense fuckin pain! So, I land in Osaka, and wander around for a few hours because I was looking for a particular hotel. A Capsule Inn. When I got there, it was pretty cool. You might ask, "Why a Capsule Inn?" Well, how many times could you say that you've been in a Capsule Inn? Ha!







The "room" might be small, but it is actually really comfortable in there. Inside the capsule there even was a TV and a Radio. Fancy! All for about $20.

What can I say about Japan?

It fuckin rocks! There is a very noticable difference between the Japanese and the Koreans. The Japanese really have taken the Western influence and have made it there own. It seemed like a mixture of...Western-Asian-Punk...yeah. Oh, people rode bikes everywhere! I have never seen so many bikes in my life.



Sorry, it's a bad picture, but hopefully you get what I mean.

Here are some other photos:













The reason why I posted the McDonalds pic is to ask the question: Why are there rabbits hopping towards the sandwich? Is there something that Japan and McDonalds is not telling us? Hmm? Hmmm? Hmmmm?



It's Denny's. Enough Said!

Oh, by the way, while in Japan, I figured that I might as well have some sushi while IN JAPAN. I went to a really cool restaurant and had some Tuna Maki and an Asahi beer. Mmm...beer.





This was my sushi chef. We chatted for awhile about the US and Japan. When I left, he gave me MORE sushi as a gift for my first time in Japan! Sweet!



That was my trip to Japan.

Gone too long

I'm back again! Sorry. I've been really busy lately and haven't gotten around to doing this much. I don't have my camera with me, but I do have some pictures of Osaka, Japan. I was there a week ago. Japan's really cool! Sushi rules! I'll talk about it more this weekend. I'm going to do some exploring of Seoul this weekend. So expect alot of pics coming soon!