Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Christmas Eve/Christmas Day

Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve was nice. I did the usual last minute mad shopping! Then I wrapped gifts and Roberta, Camille, and I had some drinks and then headed to “Bar 10.” “Bar 10” is our “Cheers” of Ansan. Everyone knows your name and all us foreign personalities go there to hang out and reflect on Korea. It is dark but clean and nice... we all flock around the bar itself on stools.... I think just to prove our own “Westernness” to ourselves, as Korean people do not drink at the bar, but rather prefer to drink at booths... possibly more socially acceptable.... but each to their own I suppose. The Bartender is named Reo and he is quite friendly though his English is a little lacking... but what he may lack in a great conversation he makes up for with his unbelievable “Fire Skills.” Yep he throws the bottles around, throws a torch of fire around and then lights shot after shot in a blaze complete with “party” sparkles! He may have even melted some hearts in the process--- though I am not speaking of my own ;) Anyhoo so Christmas Eve there we all were.... and it was nice almost everyone had showed up and despite being reluctant to spend Christmas Eve in a bar--- I was in good company and therefore had a good time!

Christmas Day

Christmas day was full of loving phone calls!!! (thanks again) We then meant to do a gift exchange amongst our “Brighton Family” (you know spices, salad dressing -- the real valuable stuff that is hard to find in Korea) but this ended up just being a girls gift exchange as uh hum.... the boys were too hung over!!! Talk about Grinches. No matter we had fun and Roberta was good and scared at her crazy large present--- but loved the foam mattress (the beds are rocks over here) and hockey stick so hopefully she can puck around in her apartment---- aren’t her neighbours going to love her?!
We then all trucked on the Subway to Seoul and had an amazing “western” dinner. Only it wasn’t the usual Canadian/American style Christmas feast, instead it was very “Oceanic”--- Apparently that is the continent that makes up both Australia and New Zealand. Though this is an ongoing argument as we like to razz Camille that she truly doesn’t belong to a continent! Anyway, as it is warm in the Southern Hemisphere around Christmas instead of dreaming about Mashed Potatoes, Turkey and Ham, Camille and Will have been dreaming about BBQs. Well this is just what we had... and it was amazing... a buffet of meat.... I never would have thought I would love such an obscene amount of cooked flesh.... but I did... Ohhh Korea what are you doing to me??? ;)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"and it was amazing... a buffet of meat.... I never would have thought I would love such an obscene amount of cooked flesh.... but I did..."

Hahahahahaha!! My favourite Meira quote ever...

Happy Carnage! (...and yet this is also not the post titled "Christmas carnage" either...)