Canada Day in Korea
Trip Start
Aug 30, 2005
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Trip End
Aug 29, 2006
Seoul, Korea Rep.
Monday, June 26, 2006
Finding the location near the 2002 World Cup Stadium in Seoul was difficult. The taxi drive took us on the freeway and couldn't get off; taxi drives in Korea in general get lost 50% of the time. Its the weird ass address system they have in place - no street or avenue numbers. I managed to salvage the ride by spotting the teepee setup by the Han Kang river. Quiet a few Canadians showed up for the festivities despite the somewhat high price. I didn't see Senem, but saw some of the other Canadaians from the Seoraksan and paint balling trips through Adventure Korea. More important, there was Molson Canadian bottled beer! In Canada this is not cause for celebration, but beer sucks over here... so it was great. Generally, this lead to a high incidence of sunburnt Whities like myself
2002 World Cup Stadium
. Unfortunately, the food wasn't as good as at the CCCK Christmas Party but it was Canadiana. That's all you can ask!It was a good low key time with lots of beer and reminiscing about Canada. Talk of Korea. Copious amounts of food. Great weather. Sub standard Canadian cover bands. The works. Even random make out sessions: caught a friend in the act of a alcohol induced kiss. As much fun as it was most people bailed early as the clouds rolled in and the wind picked up. Then as always back to reality in Jochiwon.
Most of you know I have some difficult decisions to make. Life stuff: travel, education, work or a gamble. Luckily this crossroad in life coincided with the schools' exams schedule and the end of extra classes; so being forced to come to school regardless is providing a lot of time to do just think.
Wish me luck.
PS I think this is my shortest entry ever.
