Saturday, January 3, 2009
Anthea and I at the beginning of the stream :)
Anthea asked me whether I wrote about it on my blog yet and nope.. I hadn't yet. It wasn't the most memorable experience but since I've done it 2x now, maybe I'll just comment :p There is always a long line for women's restrooms, especially in coffee shops because there is only one stall. While for the men's restroom, there is one stall plus one urinal. So if you gotta pee, you're just in and out. Those that need that stall don't need to block the others from doing a number one. While for women, the line just gets longer and longer. This time it was another emergency-- it was almost time for the countdown for New Years! Happy New Year by the way! I had 10 mins (or 15? don't remember) when I started waiting, by the time there was 4 min
utes left and the men's restroom was pretty empty, I went over there and had Anthea block the door for me. We made it in time for the countdown but I think wherever we were, it wasn't the place the website says. The website says theres a big screen TV and a light show. Well, we were at the mini fireworks/scrolling light stuff but there was no TV in sight! I think Anthea was kind of disappointed :p But it was fun still!
We walked up and down the stream that night, took a bunch of pictures, got to watch a live concert of CAN, Park Ji Young, and some other duo that was popular 20 years ago. We also found a super cheap ice skating rink! We ended up going ice skating for our New Year's Day plan :) The rink is at exit 5 of City Hall station. It's really big, you can't miss it. It's much smaller than the picture online, but hey it's super cheap. It's 1000 won per hour to enter plus you get skates. If you need gloves, its 500 won to rent. Lockers are also 500 won. You buy a ticket for a 
time slot (to control the crowd.. there are a ton of people) and then line up for skates when it gets close to time. They redo the ice every hour cuz it gets scraped up like crazy with the amount of people but it's a good amount of time. I usually take a break at the hour anyway :p
cowfish~
The next day (1/2) we met up with Ashley at COEX for the aquarium to see fishies! COEX is a huge mall with a lot of high end stores, restaurants, coffee shops, and it also has REALLY awesome restrooms. :D The aquarium was fishy fun like always but it didn't only include fishes. It had frogs, tarantulas, alligators, "korean squirrel" aka chipmunk, monkeys, and many other things. The exhibits were a lot more crowded than the aquarium back at home in Atlanta, but they were very interestingly laid out. One room turned all household appliances, sinks, water tanks, phone booths, bed stand, toilet, anything you can think of into mini aquariums. It was really neat :D Once you get to the last souvenir area and exit that, you're completely out of the aquarium and back into the mall. It was an odd feeling.
Anyway, since we had past by a dimsum and noodles restaurant we wanted to try earlier, we went back to that to eat. It was Jackie Chan's restaurant. Really :p There's pictures of him doing kung fu poses on the outside too. There wasn't a long wait for seats, but they were understaffed so things moved a little slow. They also ran out of a lot of food and it was still only 4:30pm. All the dimsum items I wanted to try (though overpriced) were already sold out. I ended up getting "SangHong" or however you spell it. It had a crispy outside (like a fried spring roll) but the inside was some sort of sweet potato paste. It was pretty good :D Ashley's and Anthea's meals were pretty good too.. we need to go back there sometime! As the waiter said when I asked him 'What is Sang hong?' he replied, "It's delicious."
New gadget I bought that lets me turn my laptop into a tablet!
PNF Duo~ 69,000 won :D
They voted on the best turkeys from each table~
Hmm so what other important dates did I not blog about? Let's see..
11/27: Thanksgiving! Awesome Turkey day! I taught my kids about Thanksgiving all week and about how we call it “Thanksgiving” and not “Thanksgiving Day” like the stupid book teaches it. My coteacher helped explain it by telling the kids you say Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. without adding the –day usually while for things like Memorial Day, President’s Day, Labor Day, all regular words? you add a “day” to it. At this point they would do the “Ahh..” to indicate they understand. The 6th graders had a chapter on it but the 4th graders didn’t so I made 
them draw turkeys and listen to some funny turkey songs on youtube. http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=B0GWAwV5uBY and http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=hd4h5xKLGuE . However, because they watched these, the kids gave the turkeys sunglasses, dragon tattoos, and afros.. They did learn the proper sound a Turkey makes though: Gobble gobble! Or .. Turkey turkey! ;D That night, we went to Doorae Church in Guri for Thanksgiving dinner. Sarah, another teacher in Guri, invited us to go eat with them. It was soooooo good. We even got to take home leftovers. I was in heaven :D
11/29: My birthday! I had to work that day (Saturday class) so I met up with Anthea and Ashley at night at Gangnam to go eat at Outback Steakhouse! Outback Steakhouse in Korea is all about service. While we were waiting in line, they handed each of us a small bowl of cheesy fries with ranch dressing (I think). And then at the end when we asked for boxes, they boxed everything up separately into nice bags and gave us each another loaf of bread sealed in plastic and a ball of butter. My steak was super awesomely yummy! If we ever go back, I'll probably get the steak again. It was the flame grilled steak I believe. Ashley's ribs were completely worth it too. The full rack was definitely a full rack, unlike 
back at home when I got the "full rack" it was smaller than a half. After eating, we walked around Gangnam and had Tanner buy me a scarf and a hat. We wanted to shop around more but unfortunately since I didn't get back from teaching till kinda late and Outback Steakhouse was farther than I remembered (saw it one time when I walked to the next station to look around the area on my own), we ran out of time. We separated around 11? Anthea went back home and I went to Ashley's place to sleep over!
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