The typical Seoul subway. No personal space in Korea!
This is a building at one of the palace in Seoul. It is famous because it is featured on the 10,000 won bill or manwon's at we call them. Unfortunately, it was under renovation at the time, but you get the idea.
Much like our lovely neigbor from the south, you can buy beer at your local convinience stores. Take a hint Canada!
This is a shot of the dingy hotel room we stayed in the first night. I wish I could have taken a better shot but my back was against the wall so there wasn't much room to work with in there!
This is me at Seoul tower with the city in the background. As you can see there is a mountain in the middle of the city, which adds some nice scenary to an otherwise greenless city.
As for the weekend... the week went by pretty quickly with no major events at school (which is probably a good thing because that could mean a bad event). And all of a sudden it was Friday! It was our korean english teacher, Christine's birthday. So I went with the SLP (my school) crew down to the Jukebox night club where we partied until 5am. While that is a late night, we were aiming for 10am but came up short in our attempt. A good time was had anyway.
Needless to say I didn't sleep much Friday night before it was time to catch a bus that was taking us to a tour of the Hite brewery at 3pm just on the outskirts of town. The parts of the brewery we saw were quite nice and very modern. We watched a video about the beer that was basically a 10 minute dose of propaganda. It was so strong at times that we just had to laugh. It stressed three important pillars of the company: purity, passion and something else that I can't remember. It also featured people consuming vast quantities of beer at odd times. Such as this guy that was apparently auditioning as a dancer who at first fell and was quite clumsy, but he turned it around! And as he left the theatre, he downed a big can of Hite!
On Saturday night I saw the movie the Sentinel with Jack Bauer errr I mean Keifer Sutherland. I didn't realize that movie was about 5 months old in North America. I wasn't exactly impressed with it, but I was happy as always to see a North American movie and to see Keifer on the big screen.
Today I enjoyed a nice western breakfast at the foreign bar here. The special was a breakfast burrito, which was delicious. They will be making the breakfast every Sunday, so that will be something to look forward to every week. I met my friend Chris at breakfast and we decided to venture on our scooters to the outskirts of town and do some scenic mountain cruising. The mountains surrounding the city are surprisingly high and you can see very far from the top of it. The only downside about our adventure was that there was a continual rain all day so we got a little wet and it wasn't exactly great for pictures. But we plan on making the trip again sometime soon. It will look really good especially when the leaves begin to change color. That just about catches everything up at this point.
One last thing... This should solve the confusion as to how to call me from Canada. My home number is 011-82-63-273-0515 and my cell is 011-82-10-2314-6985. Please let me know if those don't work. Time to start another week...
4 comments:
how come your home phone # is shorter than your cell i'm not having any luck. but what else is new peter
p.s great pics. peter
Peter, there are so many cell phones here and only one cell phone area code (10) so they have 8 digit phone numbers instead of 7. My dad called me using the number last night.. hopefully it will work for you soon
Some people have a hard time dailing the telephone....hehe!!!New technology(I guess).Hey uncle Peter..first.pick up the phone,#2,turn it on.#3 dail the number!!!(I may have to send Thel over for the week....to teach you a thing or 2!!!...Nice pictures Trevor!!!! Singing and biking..I think it runs in the family!!! Virginia
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