Muhan Dojeon!
I have recently discovered Korean television! Now I know what some of you are thinking "Oh great just what he needs to be doing for a year." Rest at ease I am not sitting in our dark little apartment watching these crazy Korean guys do these stupid challenges. Well at least not until the evening. Ok anyway from what I have gathered from my limited Korean these six guys are given challenges or play a games to create this awkward or funny situations. The first episode I watched had the group divided three of them were in Alaska looking for this guy with a Korean name they knew nothing about. Turns out there is a large Korean population in Alaska. The other three were on this huge crane sleeping in a tent. Random celebrities from what I gathered would show up and the three on the crane would have to get the guest to say a word kind of like catch phrase and then they would come up. The three in Alaska actually found the guy they were looking for but he did not speak Korean and could not be filmed due to the fact that he was in the military. Ok I am dragging on and making the show seem really lame. Its not.
Tuesday I went in search for Rose Street determined to find it. I headed out in the general direction and ended up taking a wrong turn towards finding myself in the constructions district. My keen sense of direction quickly prompted me to turn around. I found the right way and walked along a road that followed the coast line. I found the natural history museum and the cultural and maritime buildings. While walking I see this pelican flying low over the water and the water starts to move like it has a strong current. Its fish swimming for their lives. The pelican never scoops up a fish much to my disappointment. However, when it leaves the fish take to the sky. They were either flying fish or could just jump ridiculously high.
After about an hour and a half of speed walking I came to Gatwabi rocks. It is said that this rock formations looks two women with hats on. If you look hard I guess you could say that. I snapped off a couple of pictures and was leaving when a Korean family asked me to take their picture. I took the picture then haded the camera back when the daughter pointed to her then to me and said something in Korean. Of course I had no idea what she said my first though was she wanted to know if I wanted her to take my picture. So I just shook my head no with a confused look on my face. After walking away I realized that she probably wanted her picture with me and that is why the mom kinda giggled. I would have taken a picture if I would have realized that is what she wanted. Feeling like an ass, I continued on in the search for Rose Street.
I found Peace Square and realized I was in the right area. I walked around the newer part of Mokpo looking at the building and shops. I had just about given up when I came to a little rose garden with a street sign. At last I had found Rose Street and walked down it. It is very similar to the street of lights with more bars. It could be a cool place to hang out. I did not see Moe's which is a bar where the Canadian girl that works at the high school says "white people" hang out.
Wednesday Lindsey and I went out to dinner. We found ourselves, thanks to me, in a place were you cook the meat yourself. It was a little awkward at first because there was pictures on the wall of other meat and even chicken. Of course Lindsey wanted chicken and I tried to say bulgogi. The lady just looked at us like we were crazy and then got another lady to help us who also did not speak english. She pretty much just gave us what she thought we would eat. So you get a big plate of meat similar to bacon only not cured and from a different part of the pig. You then cook the meat on this primitive George Foreman (no top but slanted so the grease runs off). You have garlic, onion and other toppings and then lettuce to create a wrap. You then stuff the whole wrap into your mouth at least the Koreans did. It was good I know what to expect next time.
Also as soon as I posted the last entery people started taking money with two hands and being more formal. Its like they read my blog haha. Pat would fit in well here: they are loud, they pick their feet in public and like hot dogs but theirs are just on a stick.
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