My Kingdom for a Camera

Friday

So the first week has come and gone.  The first weekend has also passed us by.  Friday night was a promised meal by the company bosses of delicious strips of pork and soju.  Now dear readers for those of you who have not had the pleasure of going out drinking with your Korean boss, it is something that either should be avoided or repeated as often as possible.  Somewhere in between the 3^rd time throwing up safely back at the apartment I thought avoid.  But when I thought about how delicious the pork was and how I could moderate the amount of soju shots in the beer I was drinking, left hope for repeating. 

Saturday

This was something that I had been looking forward to since I saw Liz and Andy at the airport.  We met up near the Hongik University (an area filled with young students, artists, and other such non-conformist Koreans) Rachel and I were treated to a delicious cheeseburger, avoiding something that Andy calls Barcraft.  We talked and complained to sympathetic ears, talking of months gone by and so on and so forth.  This reunion was cut short only by fatigue and cold tolerance.  Now I don’t remember it being so cold here the last time I lived in Korea.  I remember is getting cold, but never this cold, this late in the season.  Maybe Seoul is just that much colder than Busan. 

Sunday

Now some of you who know me well know that I am a walker.  I’ll walk to Ann Arbor, or I’ll walk to the other side of Busan for a sandwich.  Well today was completely different.  It was halfway across Seoul and it was a kebob.  Iteawon as it turns out is only 2 ½ hours walk away from our apartment.  Now the one thing that I have said about my long walks is that it isn’t the destination itself per say, but what I find along the way that makes these walks awesome.  Somehow during this walk I found 12 embassies to countries that I didn’t think would have embassies here like Serbia, Bolivia, and Belgium.   Fantastic parks dotted the mountains sides the mountain sides, and I found the Ben Hur Hotel (which looked pretty fancy).

One thing that was consistent through out this weekend was that Rachel and I swore that we would take either of our cameras and take photos to share.  Somehow both of us forgot and we ended up with no images.  But we swear that there will be some up soon. 

Stay tuned