This Asian Odyssey is different than my last. I don't know if it's ME or KOREA, but things are different, and I'm having a pretty awesome time. I'll leave the serious ruminations for another time, and share some pics and details about my more recent (and mostly SFW) adventures.
Some friends and I made a return trip to Penis Park. While it was unfortunately raining when we got there, everyone cowboyed up without complaining, and switched gears to make WET penis jokes (of which there are a surprising number. Who knew?). The pics below show my friend Mary and I taking a ride, and our friend Amy after a successful Penis Safari.
We were also relieved to discover that the Penis Park now sells souvenirs, though I can't believe that they missed out on this $$$ opportunity for so long...below are Mary and Lauchlin with some superfun shot classes, and me with some...unique...salt and pepper shakers. And yes, one of us bought the item in question.
When I first moved to Incheon, I wasn't really feeling the city. It's pretty far from Seoul, the pollution is not great (see earlier posts in which I discovered I am in fact ALLERGIC to Korea)...did I mention that it is pretty far from Seoul? In any case, I've been out and about with my friends more, and it turns out that Incheon can be pretty awesome. The fab breakfast food I posted earlier is from a local-ish restaurant, and there are plenty of places to eat, shop and party. One of the local expat bars hosts weekly trivia, which we regularly attend and have even won. Once. The same bar also hosted a scavenger hunt in which teams had to find places, take silly pictures and generally play silly buggers while finding our way around the city. Good times were had by all; more pics are on Facebook, but below is our team completing the task "Make a Human Pyramid with a Korean".
My friends and I continued our adventures with a trip to Daegu to visit an old co-worker of mine. SHOCKER, but more silliness abounded. We went to an amusement park, had our faces painted (and then went out for the evening with them painted, and didn't even get a second look. Korean fashion is STRANGEE, people, and I think we fit right in...). On the second day, we three girls went shootin'. With guns. I was about as terrible as expected, my friends (also allegedly rookies, though one is Southern and the other is FIERCE) were kinda scary with the guns. My friends shot skeet while I shot AT skeet.
I also work with a pretty great group of people, and we have as much fun as possible at work. The picture below is from a reenactment of something that happened in one of my classes. One of my students allegedly poked another student in the eye with his NOSE, and I called bullshit on it. Apparently, it might ACTUALLY be possible...
Just for poops and giggles, the picture below is from an adventure in the stickerbang (a popular Korean past time amongst the pre-teen set...and krazy weygookin). Heeee!:
Lest I start feeling too complacent, I have also been seeing signs in Korea.
1) Don't stay here too long:
