Tuesday, 8 January 2008

Nobody will be expecting a post this soon. It's like a ninja post.

WAHHHHHHHHHH

Nothing has really happened, but we have time to blog so we will!

We're in Pohang, which is a city that has a wiki entry that you'll never read. It has half a million people, and is so much more urban than Sydney that it isn't funny. Still the 25 storey high apartments, the endless groceries and general hustle and bustle. I'm not sure that Korea realises how to organise people in a way that is horizontal rather than vertical. The economist in me is sure that there's a rational explanation for all of this, but for now I'm still searching. Why can I get delicious cheap food here, like Seoul? Should I blame Aliens? (Or illegal immigrants?)

Yesterday, I saw a movie called Once. In an amazing co-incidence, I've only seen the movie Once, once. Isn't that strange? It's about an Eastern European cutie and an Irish lad getting together and yearning alot. They sing pseudo-indie singer songwriter stuff while yearning, and they don't have sex. The End. It's the kind of movie I enjoy though, so I'm sorry that I've ruined the whole fucking thing for you. Because it's probably worth watching. Once.

Also: We're teaching kids again! Only, this time we're conducting cool/lame experiments and it only takes 2 hours! Yesterday, we tried to make a bouncy ball but instead succeeded in making sticky colourful crap! Huzzah! Today, we tried to make lollies and instead made burnt melted sugar! Double Success! The kids here are better behaved but less interested. I found out that some of them want to be soccer players. It's kind of dull.

Today, we hit up this temple. It was pretty, like all the other temples, but now that we've seen the King of the Temple world, in Korea at least, it was hard to get excited. We went around the back of it down a rocky trail for about half an hour and it lead us to a giant waterfall. It could have been bigger, but it was still a sight to see. I could have sat there for hours, but the people we were with wanted to skedaddle so we did. The constant tripping is beginning to take it's toll so it was nice to do our zen thing and take a walk, see a temple and a waterfall then retire to a hot spring to relax for a few hours. My body feels so damned loose. I also feel weird because I've seen little boys naked and I'm not a paedophile. Weird times.

Anyone else following the primaries? Obama is handing out plates of ass. I hope the dude that I thought would make for awesome campaigning, given his AWESOME NAME, is actually a good politician. Sif not barrack for Barack. Obama will totally catch Osama. (Can you believe nobody knows where that dude is, or what happened still?)

Anyway, this is a big enough post for the little I've been doing. I saw fish get turned to Sashimi in front of me, I watched them bleed and gasp as they were sliced into edible fragments. I ate a live prawn, ripping it's head off as it twitched in my hands. Also, tons of crab. So damned delicious. I'm sorry for the vegetarians and other squeamish folk reading this, but imagine how freaked out Mia has been through this whole trip.

Time for me to go. Tschuss ^__^

2 comments:

Kimberley Salmond said...

NOOOoooo, i'm no vegetarian but that makes my stomach churn. THANX! But yay for postage, go go you!

jared said...

i have been following primaries a little! rishi shunned me for it but then calls me to update me on them the next day. Obama does seem quite the awesome.