My apologies for the long delay in blog posts but the last month has been hectic. Whether it be planning Lauren's birthday, organizing secret santa parties, setting up English camps, or planning a trip to another Asian country I haven't had a whole lot of free time.
This post comes from the crazy land of Vietnam but I will wait until I return to share my wonderful tales of that adventure. Just to give you a taste of what's been going on ... we've played with a lot of Australian people, mingled with the annoying locals, and I got a three piece suit made! I'm gunna look so adorable in it when I go back to school until some little shit in my classroom glues paper to the back of it (true story ... sometimes they glue things to my clothes).
Anyways, back to my Korean travels. Lauren's b-day was a month ago and I found out I'm not very good at suprises. I planned a suprise party at a bar called "the beer factory" and organized it so all of our friends would meet there around 9 or so and then I would take Lauren there and suprise here. Well people kept pushing the time back until it was about 10:30 and at that point Lauren was getting pissed that we were just sitting in the hotel room. If that wasn't bad enough, I found out too late that there are two beer factory bars within 100 meters of eachother and low and behold all of our friends met at the one I DIDN'T take Lauren too. I think she caught on right about the time we walked downstairs and I looked around the bar for 5 minutes, ran outside to make a phone call, and yelled "What are you doing?!" as she had ordered a pitcher by the time I came back inside. It might have been even more of a dead give away when I told her I didn't like the bar we were at so we had to leave only to take her to a bar by the same name. Luckily by about 11 we made it there and everyone was waiting with a b-day cake. SUPRISE LAUREN ... Brock's an idiot. I don't think she was too suprised to find that out though.
As far as Christmas went we made do with what we had. We had a secret santa exchange where I recieved money ... practical but santa would be spinning in his grave if he found out about that. I think Lauren got socks and a yo-yo but it's cool, I've been getting a lot of face time with the yo-yo. We had a couple friends over for Christmas and on Christmas morning we woke up and ran to the tree to open presents. If you think that's not childish enough, you should see all the sweet toys I got. Lauren also got me a really sweet air-soft gun that can really pack a punch but I keep getting it taken away because I can't be trusted to behave with it and I have stellar aim ... terrible combo.
New Years was Celebrated in a typical New Years fashion. We didn't get to watch the ball drop unfortunately (probably because we're 13 hours in the future) but we didn't get to watch the bottles drop as we drank obnoxious amounts of champaign and SoJu. Unlike most New Years drunks, we didn't have the luxury of sleeping late the next day because it was time to pack up and head to another country full of Asians ... YAY!
We have been here since January 2nd and will be staying until the 15th. I will wait until I return to tell you all our tales because I am sick of writing this from a hotel lobby (the receptionist keeps asking me if I'm going shopping today ... I don't get it). Until then, may the sun shine on your face, the wind be at your back, and the wings of destiny carry you to dance among the stars.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
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