B & B Hotel Busan

... Met some cool people, sat on a beach all weekend, swam in the ocean, saw a cool temple, and discovered it's OK that I never won a national wrestling title (a thought that often haunts me to this day). The waves were small and a few of the tinier women in the surf lesson Nathan did were able to get up. He took the group out for a paddle about 200 meters off shore and RJ, Bo, and I decided to swim out with them. Nathan made each student get off their boards and I thoroughly enjoyed his ...

... at Busan. Not impressive!

Anyway, the negativity all changed when the director took me to dinner with her husband and hot sister. Shame none of them spoke ENglish but the food was delightfully Korean (table with a big bbq girdle in the middle for the pork and side dishes... mmm) and filled me up.

I was then left to my own devices at around 6:30 so I went for a wander around my area. Happily I'm within two minutes walk of ...

... coffee or some other drink of my choice, with him. With nothing better planned and some time to kill before my ferry in the evening, I agreed and acompanied Mr Cho to the 7/11 on the corner where I was treated to pick out a drink of my choice "with no thought to the price" (I had an Fanta Orange). Turns out Mr Cho was extremely well travelled and had been sent on a round the world trip with his job in Customs (he's president of the ...

... ge. Awesome. I respected his willingness to be my wingm*n on this voy*ge. Excited to try our ice cre*m ende*vors, we get b*ck to the bus *nd return to our TV show th*t's on screen. It w*s fun for us trying to decipher wh*t w*s going on. Most of the shows c*n be broken down to this expl*n*tion: they *re like * hybrid of "The Tonight Show", "Who's Line is it Anyw*y", *nd "Ses*me Street." Me *nd Kolin st*rted c*lling it "Who's 'Ses*me' Tonight, Anyw ...

... not totally realistic...but I truely feel like that's the only thing that will get us, as a society, through these hard times with out everyone being so high strung. If we keep going and worrying and freaking out like we are, we will break--and it's not going to be pretty. Take a deep breath everyone. We will get through this.



Ok...that turned into more than I thought it was, but I'm glad I put it out there. :)



Until the next episode...

... same things as you. All the holidays seem to be this way. A lot of the bars will have special dinners and such--or just offer a warm place to drown your sorrows on the holiday.... JUST KIDDING MOM!! Hah ha! I won't be going there.....eh hem.... No drowing of sorrows anyway. Nothing to be sorry about. :) Actually, there are a few people I'll probably go out to dinner with. I heard there's a church service in English, but not ...

... here is so brutally bad. i had such high hopes... anyhoo! i'm back in seoul and eating everything i can in preparation for mongolia. on a side note, i was walking down the street the other day and what do i see but a c-stand? then lights, a monitor and a bunch of korean p.a.'s running around. i started talking to a guy who was the production manager and we were laughing about how you can never seem to get away from it! it was ...

... weekend for an orientation. We're pretty bummed because we had planned for weeks to attend the Busan Beer Olympic Games. Basically, you'd pay $15 to enter, be put on a team of your country, and play in a bunch of drinking games, a la the movie "Beerfest." The cool thing about this event is that all the proceeds are going to orphanages in South Korea. We were going to drink for the orphans man!!! Well, I wasn't going to be able to ...

... for a warmer, drier, cleaner, friendlier place to call my own. I have met with extraordinary warmth and friendliness everywhere I have been, but for now I continue to be restless and unable to stay put for a weekend. The winter will be different though, as the country begins its hibernation and it becomes to cold to traverse the surface, a new phase of life here will have to begin. But until then the roadshow continues ever onwards, back and forth across this country..

... for his trouble, but this was turned down, on the proviso that next time we were in Gangchon we would hire our quads from him. We made the bus in plenty of time and as it pulled out of the station my mobile rang. It was Philip, just checking we had caught the bus. What a legend. Our bus was headed to Donghae - from there we were going to make our way to Samcheok, home to some fascinating caves. However, once we arrived at Donghae station one of the ticket sellers ...