Vacation

I had Tuesday through Sunday off from work for Chuseok, Korean Thanksgiving. I went to an island off the coast of Incheon called Deok Jeok Do. There were about ninety English teachers in our group, which was organized by IFX. We rented out an entire four-story motel for two nights. Here were some of the highlights:

1. Hiking and bouldering along the coast of Deok Jeok Do, and jumping into the ocean from a tall rock we found.
2. Singing my heart out at the local norebang (karaoke room).
3. Burning myself with a roman candle.
4. Hiking down a mountain at sunset, and nearly killing ourselves as we walk down the trail in the dark. At the end, we entered a bamboo forest which was nearly pitch black.
5. Sleeping on the floor every night.
6. Bonfire.
7. Playing Kings.
8. Meeting a lot of cool English teachers from all over.

I got back home, had a Korean lesson, and then went directly to a baseball game. My old suitemate from Pitzer, Nick, is here in Korea on Fulbright scholarship. We met up for the game, and had a pretty fun night afterwards, finally ending up at yet another norebang.

The next day, several of us made our way to Seoul to do siteseeing. We saw a famous prison, made by the Japanese to hold Korean resistance members. Our tour guide was Roy, a ten-year old Korean kid who lived in Las Vegas for some period of time and spoke nearly perfect English. He led our group of about eight twenty-somethings around for about an hour.

My Seoul trip ended with a delicious burger and an 8,000 won draft Guiness.