Business Trip

Our work sent us to Guam for three days to take care of some official government business.

As you can see we were very upset about this.

I assure you that while I posed for this picture I was actually thinking about teaching Koreans grammar.

 This is deep fried parrot fish with rice and butter. The people of Guam really like deep fried food.

Free Gifts

In Korea it's very popular for stores to give you a little something extra with your purchase, they call it a "service". With our purchase of this regular milk they included 2 containers of banana milk. I knew we wouldn't drink the banana milk, but it's so hard to pass up free stuff.

Speaking of gifts, one of the parents brought us cupcakes. Here is Matt getting ready to enjoy said cupcake.

This is a man who is ready for Saint Patrick's Day. Who knew being Irish for a day was so popular in Korea.

Sally ordered the most disgusting drink ever invented (actually James wanted to order it but we managed to talk him out of it). They call it the Blue Monkey some of its ingredients include: blue liquor, banana liquor and milk...

We Are Adult

 This is another friend, Sally. She likes to remind us that she is not a child, she is adult!

 On this day the gang wanted to go to a bar at 4:00 in the afternoon. So that is where we are headed.

The purpose of the early expedition to the bar involved a girl that Tall James wanted see. You will soon realize that all of Tall James' ideas involve his desire to date western women.

 We are adult.

Wow! Who is this oh-so-handsome-guy? Is he an international card shark? British playboy? Top mathematics graduate turned Christian school teacher? Yep. This is our new teacher Matt.

 His skill at bar games tipped us off about his prior life in the mother country.

 Still adult. . .

 Sort of.

Western Invasion

I went out walking today and came across this fine establishment.

I guess someone forgot to take down their Christmas decorations...

Fun and Game(room)s

 Recently we introduced you to our new friend James. Today we met up with him and his friend James. To keep them straight they go by Handsome James(left) and Cool James.

 They took us to a game room. In a game room you pay an hourly rate and can play as many games as you like. When you choose a new game an employee comes to your table and teaches you the rules (in Korean). This is a game where you force a pirate out of a barrel with little knives.

 This is game called Blokus, it was pretty fun (I wont go into how to play the game, as an explanation would take more than a few sentences ). Another exciting aspect of the game room is that when you loose, you get dared to embarrass yourself in front of other game room patrons. One man from another table came over to ours and sang "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid!

 I thought that Furries were NOT allowed to remove their heads in public!

 Holly cow! Are those mariachi owls?!

We took James and James to our favorite bar, Korean Traditional Pops. Here they are drinking cocktails involving fruit juice and milk.

 Here we are making friends in foreign lands.

Another day well spent.

English Worship

The person who was scheduled to do this English language service was unavailable, so I was asked to do it last minute.

It was an opportunity that I just couldn't pass up.

Korean Traditional Pop

 We came to Seoul in search of another jazz club. We could not find said jazz club.

 After wandering for a while Megan spotted a place with a sing reading Korean Traditional Pop.

This bar only plays Korean pop music from the 1960s onwards.

I have a new mission to explore Korean pop music of the 1960s.

This mission is even better since it includes coming to a place with such amazing decor.