1) I went to Busan for the first weekend in May. For those of you who aren't in the loop, Busan is the second city of Korea and it's principal port on the south coast. You can catch a ferry to Japan from here if the mood strikes you. I went and met up with partners in crime Jason and Forrest.
In addition to being known as an inexpensive way to get to japan, Busan is famous for 2 other things: the Jagalchi Fish market and Hae-Un-Dae (yes, as in the car) beach. The fish market is unique, in that you can buy ridiculously fresh (as in: live) fish and take it away, or you can go to the seafood restaurants, tell them what fish you want, and they will go into the market, buy it, kill it, and prepare it for you. The end result is the best damned fish I've ever eaten. It was so good, we went back the second day and bought a king crab between the 4 of us for £12 each. And this was a BIG crab. Hae-Un_dae beach was a very chilled place, mainly because it's off season. In Korea, most people inexplicably take vacation in the same 10 day period and the the beach becomes the holidaying equivalent of D-Day.
So, in between eating fine fish and having random Koreans join our group, we drank. This was something that would continue the following Tuesday, AKA: Children's Day. A day where children get treated as gods, and most foreigners or non-parents get drunk at the baseball game. After this whirlwind of excitement, a fairly standard week; I got 2 new students (both of whom are good eggs).
Come Saturday, we went to Namdaemun. This is one of the traditional markets in Korea, and this one sells pretty much everything. Clothes (including fairly-good-fake-Levis), hats, fish, watches, digital cameras, stuff that's been smuggled out of the supermarket on the US garrison, you want it, you can probably find it there.
And on Sunday I saw Star Trek. Twas good.
Catch y'all later!
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