Monday, August 3, 2009

Brock's first day of Korea

I landed safely in Korea and with the help of some most excellent sleeping pills from walgreens I slept for 10 hours on the plane.  After an hour and a half bus ride to Seoul I settled in to my cozy little dorm room with my new roomate Obid or maybe it's Odib.  Time will only tell what shenanigans we get into.  Instead of sleeping once we got to the dorms, Lauren and I decided to go on a field trip to a nice little Korean Village where we got to feed a cow hay and watch a traditional dance.  Remember Will Ferrels beautiful twirly wand routine at the end of Old School?  Well the traditional dance was basically like that, except the twirly wands were attached to their heads and sometimes they would break dance.  Fantastic.  Due to a shortage of drinking fountains, Lauren decided to scoop handfuls of water out of a waterful.  Just Lauren being Lauren!  Enjoy the dysentary.  We then got to go to Nam June Paik's art gallery and let me tell you, he liked three things: TV's, Circuitry, and Pornography.  Our tour guide was a German with a lisp and hear I thought I had seen everything.  I got to watch a soccer match back on campus and walk around the city and now I'm all tuckered out.  Brock had a big day.  I end this post with a list of a few things I learned about Korea today.

1.  There are handicap accessible urinals so if you ever are crippled and still think peeing sitting down is for girls, this country is for you.
2.  Don't assume that just because someone is not Korean and in this country that they speak English, that's just racist.
3.  Evidently a removable shower faucet head attached to your bathroom sink in your dorm room counts as a shower.
4.  Korean's wearing random English words on shirts will always make you smile.

As a follow up to that fourth point I will make a valiant effort to find the greatest English shirt I see someone wearing.  The two that stood out today was a woman wearing a shirt that said "She is you" ... deep but confusing ... and a little kid wearing a shirt that said "looking for a big wave" 

1 comment:

  1. Slept for 10 hours! Damn good pills. Damn good.

    That's pretty sweet you did so much on the first day.

    Looking forward to more t-shirt updates.

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