Haeundae Beach...twiced.

{me chowin' a north korean attack vessell!...jk.}
Headed back to Haeundae (heh-oon-deh) Beach this saturday in Busan. I have flickr pix up from last week, and I'll try to remember to post more this weekend. Just letting everyone know I'm doing great and I love you. Sorry I haven't called in a while. Call ya s–, ..well let's be honest, –eventually.


Today (Sunday, actually) Nate and I had a duck paddle boat race at Suseong Lake with our church – winners receive 1,000,000 won ('bout $900)...we came in dead last and received ice packs for our legs as a consolation prize. Anyway, Cory and our new found acquaintance, Mandy, and us Americanos decided to play a round of putt putt. The course was tattered and cheap. haha. But we still had fun.

Thing I Miss of the Week v.II

As I trek around the city and viddy the folks walking their pets I immediately notice how small these animals are. And they're not the usual cute small dogs, although I did notice a mini Yorkee not much bigger than my foot. That one was pretty cute, but most pet dogs here are small and ugly. But most importantly, I miss HUGE gorgeous dogs. I believe one reason why they are not so populous is that the city cannot wedge them in. There is also not much grass here for animals to play in, if any at all. The grass I have found is crispy and non-lush. Another reason may be that larger dogs are better to eat! Surely no one wants to eat a small dog – he would never fill you up. I haven't sampled a "doggie dinner" just yet, but I imagine it would be much more appetizing than a "doggie snack". So whatever the reason that there aren't many beefy canines trotting along with their best friend, I hope it diminishes or that I could at least find a few to throw a frisbee with or maybe throw the smaller dogs and use them as a chew toy for the larger. That seems more sensible..

I miss fireworks...

Soooo I guess some people are worrying about me over here since Captain Nimrod up in North Korea has been testing out his toys. Must be fun to have that much power in your pocket – I hear some guys do, but I wouldn't know.

Anyway, supposedly Cap'n Sassyrockets has been shooting off a few this week. I don't know how many or how far or how large...whatever. You probably know more than I do. Why? For 1, I don't watch TV here obviously (even though I have CNN). 2, I have friends here who would warn me about anything super serious. People here are more concerned with the recent suicide of ex-S.Korean president, Roh Moo-hyun, rather than fancy bottle rockets.

I miss bottle rockets. I remember times when I was a young lad and my father taught me how to light them from my hand. As far as I know, and as far as I'm concerned, I was in more danger then than I am now.

SO, perhaps I am the one who should be saving up the cash to fly you guys here?! Who knows. But seriously, I would assume that the Northerners have bigger fish to fry rather than poor lil' ol' Southerners. I feel I am the one who should be worried about YOU.

I love you all and miss you. I'll see you soon enough. Hakuna Matata.
Christine, I have a rock for you! ;D

NEW! "Thing I Miss" of the Week!

Ok so the past couple months I've realized that I actually do miss a few things from home. I have made a list of quite a few things that I miss, but I thought it'd be more fun to have a weekly "Thing that I miss". Here we go!



1. Taco Bell!
The infamous TB. Quesadillas, Enchiladas, Mexican Pizzas, Chicken Baja Gorditas, the list is almost endless of this fast food masterpiece corporation. This will be one of the first, if not THE first, places I will visit once I return home. "Yo Lo Quiero!"

Korean Catholic Fashion Show..?!

Say whaaa? Yeah, I went to a fashion show this past weekend. Never would I have guessed that a Catholic fashion show ever existed. Nor did I ever think that the first of which I would attend be in Korea. Pretty random, but ain't complainin'. Cory works in the admissions office at the Catholic University of Daegu (or CUD as I call it) and some of his students that he reps modeled for the fashion show with clothes designed by the students and alumni. Man, these designers are talented, gifted, and skilled – pretty creative stuff. My pix are pretty blurry and I can't upload them on flickr yet cuz I've already gone past my monthly limit of uploads – LAME, oh well.

Children's Day

Not Cinco de Mayo here. It's Children's Day in S.Korea. Not sure what that means, but Tipton and I got to celebrate it anyway with Cory's family by going up one of the mountains and cooking out and eating eating eating...and a bit of hiking. It was a lot of fun and very relaxing. The little girl's name is Hyoju, Cory's niece; English name: Alice. On Saturdays now, I teach her English for a couple hours for a bit of extra pay. Her brother's name is Sunghoon – He doesn't have an English name, but I gave him the name Clark since he loves Superman. You can catch a few pics in this batch of him in his superhero poses.

I also uploaded more pix that Cory the Clever Corean took along with some other pix we took in Busan:
FLICKR.

Takin' A Stroll – vol.II

Downtown Daegu – Or "The [new] Dirty D" as Tip and I call it. You've seen some photos, now experience it in motion with Tipton and I just after we had recorded that last video. Again, this is on the eve of Buddha's birthday. Enjoy!