halloween and...fishing?

As much as I love Halloween, I think one of my favorite parts of this weekend happened on Friday afternoon as I was walking to my scooter. One of my 3rd years (9th grade) was standing by a little shop next to the school. This is the kid that I could see every 5 minutes for 3 hours and he would still be excited to see me and to talk to me (teaching in Korea is definitely an ego boost). When I told him to have a good weekend, he made a "thinking very hard" face and said "this weekend i...fishing. I have reel. I go with my dad to seashore and fish. Fishing must have patience. I have many patience." I can't even tell you how excited he was to fish and to tell me he was going fishing. For a culture that is taught to more or less stifle their emotions, these are some of the most interesting kids I've ever met.

Onto Halloween. What a day. There was only a few hours where I wasn't on the go, and that was between 7am and 12pm. Halloween eve (and most of the early morning) was spent at LSG where the usual was going on. My friends Jack and Geoff made a music video about life in Yeosu and premiered it that night.



It was hysterical. I guess to completely get it you have to have lived here for at least a month.

Most of Halloween day was spent pulling together various parts of peoples' costumes. Mine and Wendy's Snow Miser/Heat Miser costumes came out pretty awesome for shopping in a country that doesn't really do Halloween.


The party was great. I won a little twisted wire ship in the raffle. Afterwords we went to noraebang. But not before trying to make friends with every Korean I saw. Keep in mind that my Korean is more or less limited to hello/goodbye, are you doing well, and friend. I was basically asking everyone I saw "Hi, How are you?" then pointing at them then me and saying "friends?". Not many people were that into being my friend.

Next came one of the top three korean food inventions. The Cheese Donkas. A cheese donkas is a deep fried pork cutlet served with gravy, rice, kimchi...etc. The genius part is that the cheese is underneath the fried part. You cut into the crispy breading and the cheese oozes out. It is only second to I-Zone, Fat Jacks, or Island Deli when it comes to drunk food.