대학로 Daehakno

This week Monica had to work on Saturday so I went up to Seoul on Sunday. We went to 대학로 which is an area full or theaters and fun restaurants. The atmosphere is great. We saw a play called 주여주는 이야기, a comedy about a guy, who's profession is inventing and selling ways to commit suicide, and his two "customers." The actors did a great job. For dinner we ate 찜닭, a slightly fancy spicy chicken and noodle dish that I had never tried before. The pictures are from after the show.

Basketball

These are the pics from a few weeks ago when I went to Anyang to see a basketball game with Monica. At half time she texted a number on the big screen saying what she wanted to do with one of the players. I suppose they chose the most interesting response, which turned out to be hers, to do yoga. They said for me to come along too, so after the game(our team lost BTW) we briefly did a yoga stance in the middle of the court. The picture is only part way through..from there you are supposed to lean forward.

yellow, red, blue

Just some pictures walking home from school on Monday.

격포(Kyeok-Po)

Well, the pictures pretty much tell the story. Monica came down to Jeonju for the weekend. I made Vietnamese Pho for dinner on Friday, it turned out ok, but the rice paper spring rolls on the side were excellent. Saturday night Monica made 닭도리탕, which is chicken with potatoes vegetables and noodles seasoned slightly spicy and sweet. It was unbelieveable. I have leftovers in the fridge for tomorrow. Today, Sunday, we took a bus to the beach, to 격포, about 2 hours away. We arrived in the afternoon and walked around taking pictures until dinner. I suggested we have some seafood since we were right next to the ocean. Monica said it would be expensive, but I said it was too good an opportunity to waste to eat fresh sashimi. It ended up costing about $60 for our meal, which I think would normally have been eaten by 4 people. We didn't come close to finishing it all. They kept on bringing out more and more dishes. At the end they were even going to bring out some soup(매운탕) for us but we declined. The dinner included the main dish of really nice sashimi and smaller plates of: fish tonkatsu, cooked crab, 4 smaller cooked fish, oysters, clams, some kind of red and yellow sea plant, sea worm, three other kinds of sea vegetables, spicy garlic stem or green onion side dish, plus several things I had no idea what they were.