Sunday, July 18, 2010

Mudfest 2010!

Finoa and I at the beginning of the fest.

**Disclaimer: This post is not for the faint of heart, or the sober. While this is a true account, I refuse to be held responsible for your disapproved looks**

So this weekend was MUDFEST. Which is exactly as it sounds. Its a weekend when every expat(Teacher, military and whatever have you) makes a pilgrimage to the beach to eat, drink, and play in the surf and the mud activities they had. A bunch of my friends decided to go through adventure korea, while most made it down on their own devices. We stopped at the beach they get the mud at first and played some EXTREME mud games. Okay, not so extreme, but we ran around mud flats in the rain, whiped out and had too much fun. Awesome.
We showered off and cruised to the actual Daechon Beach. We dropped off our stuff, made our way to a convenience store for some necessities, like flip flops and beer and roamed to the beach where it had stopped raining, allowing us to play in the waves. After that, I met up with some old friends and pretty much everybody I know in Korea, and we played on mud slides, in a mud prison where they hose you with mud, and with colored mud. All in all, it was fantastic! After doing this for a few hours, we dragged our wet, muddy drunk asses back to the hostel, where we cleaned up and went out for dinner.
We had shellfish on the grill, and it was delightful!
Yum
we watched fireworks show and hung out ont the beach, playing with fireworks and playing some soccer with old koreans who insisted on feeding us.
I then met up with some friends and we people watched and drank for a while, before we decided to go to bed. After stumbling to my hotel room TRAGEDY STRUCK! One key+5 drunk foreingers=no bedtime for EP. So I wandered the streets until I heard Errrrrrrrriiiiin Pryor! I turned around, and it was a friend from where I live. I was stoked to see him, so I chatted with him for a while until the girl who had our key stumbled past me! Alls well that ends well.

The next day we woke up and ate pizza before laying on the beach for the majority of the afternoon. I fell asleep, and therefore am sunburned. But its okay. We walked through the festival, said goodbye and rolled home to Seoul.

All in all it was a fantastic weekend. I love living in Korea, I really do. But sometimes, hanging out with people who only speak English, being drunk, laying on the beach, eating junk food is refreshing. Its almost like I was able to forget I was in Korea, even if it was only for a few days. it obviosuly wasn't the same, but it was as close as you can get. it was a lot of fun to catch up with people I haven't seen in a few months. It was kind of like a spring break atmosphere, where everybody invades a town and pillages it buying it out of ice cream and beer.

Patience, Faith and a few showers;
ErinJ

Brad and I after the mud prison

Friday, July 9, 2010

Its official

The soonest I will possibly be back in the states is September, 2011. But thats not likely either.
Biddy decided to resign.
Patience, Faith,
ErinJ

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Summer Happenings

Hey team!
WOAH its been a while. FOr those that know me, know how obsessed I get with sporting events and soccer is no obsession. So I could be blogging, or I could be watching my 80th hour of soccer in 3 weeks. Its true, I have not slept. ITs true, I refused to get out of bed when team USA was defeated. Its true, I was in distress when Team Deutschland was knocked out. BUt 2 of my favorite players (v.Persie and Fabregas) play against eachother in the final, and I am stoked to see them.

This summer has been fun and its just going to get better. I went to Carribean Bay, Korea's largest water park, which was great fun. THere was nothing overly special about it, but it was still nice to hang out, go on some rides and do normal summer time activities.

I went down to the Han River to watch the Korea Uruguay game with HEAPS of koreans. THousands. We got there at 6pm for an 11pm game and were entertained by concerts from some of Korea's superstars, but I didn't really know the difference, save for a few. That was fun. Korea did loose, but being surrounded by thousands of Koreans when they scored was epic.

The fourth of July was specatcualar, although not as great as if I was laying in New London with my family and friends, enjoying beach tasties and having an all in all great time. We did do a boat crusise of the Han with unlimited decent beer, and needless to say, that night was fun. It was cool to see Seoul from that viewpoint, but did prove how nasty the river and how un pretty of a city seoul is. IT was nice to be on a boat with foreigners and friends drinking and hanging out on a fantastic weekend.

Next weekend;WORLDCUP. Weekend after:MUDFEST. Weekend after:BALI WITH DUGS

Patience, Faith, and some fun,
ErinJ