yeongtong, predators, mandarins and not falling

a grey saturday from the foot bridge. the buildings in the distance are yeongtong, which is where avalon is located. to walk to this point and catch a bus to work takes about twenty minutes total.

once again, the gock on the right and rice paddies.

in the gock the most we do is walk a few blocks, eat scallion pancakes, kimchi omelets and drink beer. so friday night after work i got on a bus and went to seohyeon which is another part of bundang i guess. we went to a margarita party that some people from another avalon campus were having. well i think they were drinking lemonade and jose cuervo, i had red wine. we went to some bar/club whose name escapes me, full of foreigners and the predacious type of male local. i thought those types were bad in the states, it was just outright stupid here. we ended up telling every guy that tried to hit on or dance with hyunjoo that she was my wife and they all backed off really quick, then tried to give me some kind of compliment. so much for being divorced. they even work in packs, three blocking the guy out of the way so a fourth can get close to the girl. we were all pretty inebriated by the end and it started to become really funny. we caught a cab back to the gock and i was stoked to see a female driver. she was talking to us, in korean of course so hyunjoo translated. even though it wasn't necessary we rolled with the marriage thing laughing the entire way. the cab driver was excited about that and gave us a tangerine, at the time i swore it was a mandarin, but whatever they're related. i don't know if it means anything beyond generosity. most koreans that i've talked to are very nice and humble so it just seemed natural.

sunday i went to jamsil, in southwestern seoul, to lotte (low-tay) world and went ice skating. there's a big amusement park there also, some of it's indoors, some out. might do that next weekend. it was too crowded to get a shot of me bent over on one skate with my leg up and arms out, so this is the best i have. it was fun but exhausting.