Well... autumn

What can I say? When I was a little kid everybody was telling me that life is running well too fast - and right now I'm starting to realize that it actually may be true. Just turned 23 and half (I know, not really big reason to drink your ass under the table... so I didn't), realizing that another semester of my university studies is slowly about to end.

So what has been going on in past few weeks? Couple of things:

a) meeting North Korean defector
Boci, our Hungarian-turned-Hawaiian school mate, joined this NK human rights organization and organized for us special lecture, where we had a chance to question a boy, who ran from North to South (through China). For me it was kinda controversial, especially the leaving-all-family-behind part, but this topic is really not easy to understand...

b) going to capital on Saturday night
They are saying that Seoul is really nice at night - so I did after-sunset trip to Namsan Tower, it wasn't any hard Sat nite fever, but the view was really cooool... And then, when got back by cable car to Myeong-dong, one of the biggest coincidences of this year happened. Seoul has like more then 10 million people living here and in the middle of this you meet a friend, where you met another friend a year ago - same place, same table - it doesn't happen every day. HUH! Two notices relevant to this "accident": Thank you for the dinner, it was the best 칼국수 I've ever had!! & SoHee, see you in French baguetteria soon, dare you to stay in Cali forever! ㅋㅋ

c) meeting other people from the dorm
Since most of my K-roommies are big pimps, they organized a room-meeting for last Wednesday. First half an hour was really bad since nobody was too drunk, but after that it was only better and better... and I missed my Thursday morning class. Ouch. So now I walk down the campus and I'm meeting this random people that are saying Hello to me - but have no idea, if I know them from that night...

d) visiting local City Hall
What can I say about that? Superinteresting. Asan-si, our city is currently kinda middle of nowhere (well, not really - most of the Hyundai and Samsung cars are made in the area - just trying to make explanation easier). In 5 years, there will be another 300 000 people living here, subway extended from Seoul (100 miles away), sh*t loads of new buildings, roads, shops, people... so everywhere you look, there is some massive development project. K-style rocks!

e) studying
No comment on that - but I really do!


Does this life seem boring to you?

Busan, puso!

This time without any "funny" quote as an introduction, on the other hand a current picture is provided to show that me still alive, baby (yes, haven't changed at all...)

Hm, was wondering if it could look more stupid... it probably could.

Anyway my little readers, it's been a while since last message was posted (week ago?), but **** whoa, there are thingz keepin' mama busy...

Last weekend for example: as promised, I went do Busan. /You may call it Pusan too, doesn't really matter... Well it does, but if you haven't been to Korea yet, let just this time pretend that it doesn't/.

Some years ago it used to be small fishermen village, thanks/because of the globalization it's like 3rd world's biggest port these days. And the 2nd biggest Korean city too. Decent place to hang out. Maybe it's because of all these international trade companies, fact that Japan is just few hours away, PIFF, or there is some other reason, it's however true that Busan is - for a Korean city - cosmopolitan, veerimuchii. Examples: it's easy to buy European beer in bar (it's actually sometimes hard to get some Soju on the table), at least some non-K cars in streets, people aren't staring at you only because you don't look Korean, "things like that".

Since this was my second trip to Busan, I did my homework in advance to at least have some ideas where to go. Pay-offff! I've seen... well, seriously almost all the town, even had time to catch a cold. More in pictures again - no more scary ones, I promise ^.~

And this weekend? Different story tho... Plan was to wake up early on Saturday morning and go to Seoul for all two days - since it's always hard to follow unrealistic plans, I got to the capital on Sunday noon... Just walked around Insadong, Cheonggyecheon, Gyeongbokgung Palace and City Hall, it was more cold than in Russian movie, but got sunburnt anyway .)

Represent!

"Veni, vidi, vici" - or things may just somehow go wrong...

Last Saturday of November was supposed to be the D day; the day of representing Soonchunhyang Uni on a regional level. And it was - since even negative promotion is still a promotion...
Anyway, we had to wake up 6:30 (!!! - in some particular cases just sleepwalking from bed to bus) and group of like 40 people went to Daejon, our regional centre, where local university was organizing sport games for all the international students from neighbourhood. The disciplines were following: football (they call it soccer in some still-confused parts of the world;), basketball, volleyball, relay 8x100m and ee... some others.
Our group, as truly enthusiastic students, decided to participate in all of them. I guess it's some kind of a rule - if you are going to embarrass yourself, hit it as hard as you can. So we did. "Kihaaaaap!!"
Also in pictures. I must admit that it was a really nice warm sunny Saturday, full of surprises, exploring new parts of Korea.

So now is Friday early morning and another busy week is about to end. From Monday to Wednesday there were EV Olympics taking place on the dirt field, falls in drunken relay were again very extreme. My team scored 140 points in semifinals, 2 points in final. OUCH!

And Wednesday night was supposed to be the biggest night of all semester - Halloween party. My raspberry costume wasn't that successful but man... this wasn't a party, this was just heavy drinking. Faculty roof -> Khans -> Black Box (ex-Blue) -> EZS -> Korean Goverment Class. "Kihaaaap!!"

What's being left? That's the question... I'll better leave to Busan in couple of hours... peace out.