just a little update

friday i had plans to meet up with Rob - a Canadian i met at the board of education in my second week here. we hadn't met up since we'd met and i told him i'd take him to the B & Girls to meet the "gang". so first i went to his apartment - which is incredibly close to mine, being only a 10 minute walk. he was hanging out with two of his korean teacher friends - jason and another guy i named doug (he took to it like a duck to water). after a couple of rye and cokes we headed to the B & G where we met up with a bunch of other foreigners. i made a new friend - Kim from michigan:
i'd met her briefly last week, but got to know her better on friday and we made plans to go to the museum on saturday. after a couple of hours, i headed home early since i felt like i was coming down with a cold, and thought i'd be a good girl and get a good nights sleep.

saturday afternoon i made my way to the gimhae art store where i found some zinc white acrylic paint and a couple of canvases. then i headed over to Suro Tomb to pick up the pictures that Kat and I took a few weeks ago in traditional korean dress... awesome! i'll get it scanned and post it. then i met Kim and Abbey at the museum. yes, it was my second time there, but i wanted to make some more korean art... i left it at kim's house so no pics this time round... but will post when i get it. then we went to a festival near the tombs...

local artisans set up these tents and sold their wares - jewelry, art, etc...
this stage was set up and there was traditional korean music and dance shows.

we all had some korean corn on the cob (say THAT ten times fast!) but it wasn't very good... they steam it instead of boiling it and it was less than properly cooked... more like little nodules of gummy, hard, well, corn. i managed to get most of it down before giving up on it.

then we met up with ben and dave and went out for some BBQ and a couple of drinks at the girl and beer (not the beer and girls) - the boys were off to watch football (soccer to the north americans) and the girls went back to abbey's for drinks and girl talk. i went home early again cause i wasn't feeling so hot, but this time it was my stomach... i think it's the beer in korea... the most popular beer is called 'Hite' and apparently it's a malt liquor and not really beer (?correct me if i'm wrong?) anyway, every time i drink it i feel sick, i wasn't sure that it was that, but i'm going to test my theory by not drinking it ever again... i'll pay the extra money for heineken in a bottle - mix drinks are not freely available at many of the bars we frequent... maybe we need to change the bars we go to?! anyway, i headed home early around 11... my new friends must think i'm such a lightweight! i'll show them next week!

today, i didn't get out of my pyjamas. i spent the morning watching sex and the city, friends, and the gilmore girls on TV, and the afternoon reading half of Abbey's four year long blog. i can't even imagine having one for that long! it's really interesting... i'm going to get permission before posting the address here. so that's been my "chill" weekend. museum, corn, and friends... sweet.