Imagine for a second that you're traveling in a cab flying down a busy 4 lane road. The cabbie honking madly at the small motorcycle that just cut him off, talking on the phone and watching t.v on his built in GPS. It's terrifying but that's my cab ride experience in general. Korea has a free standard television stream via satellite that all GPS units can receive. My directors husband catches his favorite shows, baseball and church on t.v. while he takes the kids home in the bus. Koreans can even watch t.v. on their cell phones. Their cellphones can also be programmed, like MasterCard's Paypass, to tap-and-go at many big chain stores and some smaller convenient stores as well. Technology here is just so cool. I don't want to say it's more advanced than home but it is definitely more fun.

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This weekend was a mess as usual. Friday night started off innocently enough. Molly came over to help me lift a beer pong table from the trash. We set it up on the roof top and it made a perfect addition to what I am calling my new patio. We had dinner, some fruit soju and then decided to go check out the scene downtown. We started off at Speakeasy's so we could try and look for my sweater that was left behind. We sat down and just shot the shit for a bit and then wanted to go say hi to Song, our favorite at German bar. He always gives us free drinks! What followed next was all accidental. There was a Korean girl visiting home from Aussie and she has this crappy Australian friend who was just an arrogant jerk. At any rate I found out that she had been in Australia for four years and I was totally surprised because her English was awful. Molly and I talked with her for a bit and randomly she bought us tequilla and beers. At the same time Song, my favorite bartender made us Vodka crans. We left German bar a little tipsy! The next stop before home was Bubble and we just checked out the scene there and left to go home. I ended up at Molly's, getting there really late. When we woke up we headed over to grab a burger, gathered the girls and bought the necessities for beer pong. Saturday was just gorgeous! We all soaked up the sun with some good company and didn't move until the sun had set. Hunger as our only motivation we left my rooftop and headed downtown. The four of us, Fliss, Holli and Molly opted for some North American goodness and went to Underground. I had a chicken caeser wrap! By that time we were all a bit rowdy and definitely put a smile on the owner, Mike's, face. Mike has been in Korea 11 years! He's been married to a Korean for 5.... I think. At any rate we were all falling fast after dinner so we needed a change of scenery. German bar was packed! The monthly foreigner dinner had just finished and their were so many new faces in the bar. We sat around for a bit, I watched Fliss and Molly crash and Holli recruited me for Bubble Bar. After Molly and Fliss had left us we went over to Bubble with a Korean friend, Lucy. I met some new people and then headed back to my apartment to call it a night.

On Sunday I woke up and cleaned my apartment. Checked up on how the girls faired after we parted and made plans with Molly. We decided on an all-you-can eat seafood place. Molly and Fliss had gone the weekend before raving about it and I spent my whole weekend looking forward to trying it out. The food was pretty good! There was a lot of sashimi and sushi, king crab legs, snow crab legs, soups, dumplings, pasta and shrimps. I had to eat a lot of things I didn't like but next time I'll know better!

We decided to do a movie after. We watched Bounty Hunter and it sucked but it was nice to get a little America. I miss the trees from home. There are no big green maples here! But there were in Jersey lol. After the movie was finished Molly and I parted ways and I went home. I somehow managed to spend a lot of money this weekend so I am thinking next weekend will have to be slow... but I have FOMO (fear of missing out as dubbed by Molly) and if everyone is out having fun it will be next to impossible for me not to tag along! I have no will power haha!
Oh, and in case you were wondering these are all photos of downtown Gwangju taken from the 9th story of Lotte Mart. The Mega Box theatre is attached to it. It was a really rainy, crappy day out. I'm looking for the weather to be really consistently nice! I get paid Thursday! Soo excited. Looking forward to the gym this week and just taking it easy.
That's all for now... happy birthday mommy! love&miss you