Mallrats
It has been raining ever since I woke up today. I didn't wake up until 1:30 in the afternoon, but still, c'mon. So with the outdoors being wet and chilly and a full Sunday with nothing to do, I decided to head indoors to a huge Korean mall with a friend.
The mall was so big that there was a Jackie's Kitchen (Jackie Chan's restaurant) by the door when we walked in and another one at the other end of the mall. There were two food courts, 16 movie theaters, and hundreds of flashing lights all over the mall. I totally experienced sensory overload when we first got there. There were people and lights and music everywhere. I felt like I was on drugs. There were also a bunch of convenience stores throughout the mall. How convenient. We walked in circles for a couple hours and we still didn't cover the whole mall. Coex is known for their aquarium and we never even saw it. Not only was there an extremely large and loud arcade, but there are projectors on the ceiling pointing down at different points in the mall where it is sensitive to motion and you can play video games with your feet -you can play soccer, go bowling or play frogger. Pretty sweet. I haven't has so much fun in a mall since I was 12. The best part is that it's all underground so if there is a nuclear attack, I just found my bunker.
Before I sign off, I want to comment on my night last night and one of the really cool things about being in Korea. Towards the end of the night I ended up at a cool bar called Bricx (Bricks) in an area called Itaewon. Itaewon kind of gets a bad wrap because a lot of US soldiers hang out there and it's a real Americanized area. At the bar, we sat down on some couches with some girls and some other guys and girls we didn't know joined us. I was sitting around a table with another guy from Kansas, a girl from Minnesota, an Indian girl whose family lives in Canada, a girl from San Francisco and her Korean boyfriend named Kyle, another girl from Canada and her boyfriend from Iran. I like the fact that I'm getting a healthy dose of Korean culture, but the sweet thing is I'm being exposed to people from all over the world that I get to converse with as well. It's amazing how much I have in common with people that come from such different walks of life. We all know that you can't judge someone just by their looks, but meeting people in this setting is allowing me to be exposed to many different points of view. I have also learned that stereotypes are totally useless. The most racist person I've met since I've been here was Canadian. Fucking Canadians.
It's been 13 days since North Korea tested nuclear weapons. Thanks Condoleezza!
Love from Seoul
The mall was so big that there was a Jackie's Kitchen (Jackie Chan's restaurant) by the door when we walked in and another one at the other end of the mall. There were two food courts, 16 movie theaters, and hundreds of flashing lights all over the mall. I totally experienced sensory overload when we first got there. There were people and lights and music everywhere. I felt like I was on drugs. There were also a bunch of convenience stores throughout the mall. How convenient. We walked in circles for a couple hours and we still didn't cover the whole mall. Coex is known for their aquarium and we never even saw it. Not only was there an extremely large and loud arcade, but there are projectors on the ceiling pointing down at different points in the mall where it is sensitive to motion and you can play video games with your feet -you can play soccer, go bowling or play frogger. Pretty sweet. I haven't has so much fun in a mall since I was 12. The best part is that it's all underground so if there is a nuclear attack, I just found my bunker.
Before I sign off, I want to comment on my night last night and one of the really cool things about being in Korea. Towards the end of the night I ended up at a cool bar called Bricx (Bricks) in an area called Itaewon. Itaewon kind of gets a bad wrap because a lot of US soldiers hang out there and it's a real Americanized area. At the bar, we sat down on some couches with some girls and some other guys and girls we didn't know joined us. I was sitting around a table with another guy from Kansas, a girl from Minnesota, an Indian girl whose family lives in Canada, a girl from San Francisco and her Korean boyfriend named Kyle, another girl from Canada and her boyfriend from Iran. I like the fact that I'm getting a healthy dose of Korean culture, but the sweet thing is I'm being exposed to people from all over the world that I get to converse with as well. It's amazing how much I have in common with people that come from such different walks of life. We all know that you can't judge someone just by their looks, but meeting people in this setting is allowing me to be exposed to many different points of view. I have also learned that stereotypes are totally useless. The most racist person I've met since I've been here was Canadian. Fucking Canadians.
It's been 13 days since North Korea tested nuclear weapons. Thanks Condoleezza!
Love from Seoul
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