Chuseok Pt. 2

My Busan adventure is undeniably quite shorter because my time there revolved more around who I was with rather than what I did. Ryan from OK stayed back in Jejudo, spending his whole vacation there (not a bad idea at all). Patrick, Sophia and I touched into Busan that early afternoon. On a random aside, most of the flight was dedicated to Patrick telling us his experiences on September 11th, in NYC. Pretty powerful stuff..

The 3 of us met up with my roommate from orientation, Neil from Boston. Neil and I seemed to be one of the few sets of roommates who grew quite close during our orientation there. In fact, he reads my blog, Hello Neil... Neil and I, it seems, spent our time doing different things - because while he has become quite adept and dedicated to his Korean, he isn't what I would call a master of geography. I, on the other hand, have spent a LOT of time aimlessly traveling around Incheon and as much of Seoul as I can, while forsaking much of my Korean language duties. I don't know about him, but I am certainly jealous of his new found skills!

I was able to see three different beaches during my time in Busan, hit up as close to a legitimate Mexican restaurant as I could find (see: burrito), walk around the closed Jalgachi fish market, and take some sweet photos from the top of Busan tower. We went to a "heliparty," which is a party on a helipad, and dancing after that. I think this was the let-loose portion of the vacation. I had a great time the whole way through, and managed to make my flight home on Monday without too much difficulty. You really can fly anywhere in Korea for about 50 dollars.

We also managed to watch a terrible terrible terrible terrible movie called "The Marine", terrible. It is about.. surprise surprise, a marine (the title was NOT spun in any metaphorical sense) who gets mixed up with some criminal masterminds midway through a jewel heist, or something.. I'm not exactly sure. What I am sure of is it has at least three scenes in which he jumps out of a building as it is blowing up - who could ask for more? I have already given up trying to explain to Korean people why these are bad movies. Michael Bay will always have home a Korea. Limited dialogue makes for good dubbing I guess, and they really like it when stuff gets "blowed up."

It's good to be back, and I am glad that I had a few hours before I got back into the rhythm of school. It has been a tiring week, but it is finally the weekend and I loved my first vacation!!