BACK TO YONGSAN

OK, we saw Kandinsky today. Two of his paintings + two smaller ones. I can see how one could make an argument for perhaps that being the highlight of my day, considering that I had already been to Yongsan before, but come on. Kandinsky painted sounds on to Canvas, but Yongsan is really freakin big, full of electronics and we bought tonnes of stuff.

WOO!

After getting a Korean windows for my mother, and picking up the almighty PES for myself, we continued the spree by picking up 4 dollar headsets for Skype usage, 2gb R4 DS Ram drive thingies (Rishi, we got you a bigger one, because we got the dude to give us it for $100. Feel free to pay Mia at any time. They're also preloaded with all the awesome games! Unfortunately, the korean versions of the awesome games -_-), a 4gb USB stick , both Grindhouse movies, Battlestar Season 2 and a Korean film.

Good times. Everything is absurdly cheap here, and they have a suprisingly good range of DVDs. If anybody wants any burnt TV series or movies, I'm taking orders! Only skimming a little off the top! Seriously though, Mp3 players, Harddrives, anything that isn't too expensive or hard to carry over I'm happy to buy. The 4GB USB cost me 30 dollars, for instance! Woo! Thanks alot sam, forcing me to buy one ^_^

Before that, we headed to the Kandinsky exhibition that was in town. Although it turned out to be more a Russian Masters + Two Kandinskys in a seperate room, the paintings were awesome. I am definitely into shit like landscapes. Who knew? You can take something that you see on a day to day basis, subtly inject some passion, a point of view and pure artistic talent and produce something that makes you feel something inside when you look at it.

Also: I saw a portrait of Tolstoy. dude looks soft.

We went and had some radsome handmade noodles + hardcore Kimchi that burnt my mouth after, which was awesome though. Korea has the market PWNED on 6-10 dollar food that is good.

We've been fed really well on this trip. The people we've mostly been staying with, an old friend of my dads from his protesting days, eat awesome food at home, and they keep taking us out to nice places that they know. We've had some mountain weed fried rice + home made Doenjang soup (I know you don't get it, but it's rad.) and Bibimbap country styles. The after-school care we're at is similarly above average good food. The kids that they get are poorly fed at home, coming from poor or disadvantaged homes. As a consequence, the best food that they get is at the studyroom. Awesome bulgogi, Ton-kat-su and my favourite, Crab soup. I ate so much by my lonesome and I didn't even care.

We made christmas decorations for the kids. Correction: Mia made decorations. What a slave-labour coralling machine she is. Under the flimsy pretense of teaching a child english, she quickly had him slice and sort coloured pieces of paper and hand it to her so she could construct a chain of infinite beauty and seemingly length. With pretty snowflakes made by me, the room is the best it's ever been apparently! The kids are shits, but it's nice to make them happy for a couple of weeks. Even if they won't stop hitting me -_-

The teacher who also serves as the cook loves us though. She drove an hour to the nearest cinema, and we watched Hairspray! I was so suprised that it was huge amounts of fun. The two high school musical kids prove that they can do this type of movie for what, the third time? And all the Hollywood people there for a laugh provide exactly that. People lead such a hectic life here that it's easy to get caught up in the bustle. I forget how escapist the nature of Movies are in general. Also: She fed us chicken feet. I was impressed at the edibility.

She took us to a temple too. The serenity. Although it's pretty much old-hat now, it's still awesome.

Tomorrow, I think I'm not doing much but on Sunday I am climbing a mountain. I am not even joking.