Alright kiddies guess who’s back with more stories from the land of pickled cabbage and squid jerky. That’s actually what I had for lunch yesterday; the squid was a little salty but come on now who really complains when they’re eating squid jerky. You just thank the heavens that you’re in a place where squid jerky can be enjoyed by the bucket full. And not to worry I will be bringing home the tasty little treats for the brave stomached to try back home, I know y’all can’t wait.

So let’s see… I left you guys at the end of October with Aaron’s b-day and Halloween being our highlights among others. The next couple of months were kinda laid back as we got in the routine of teaching and got over the fact that WE’RE IN SOUTH KOREA!! We made some fuckin awesome Korean friends, and also discovered the underground Korean punk scene which is blowing up huge right now. We’ve been doing our fair share of partying and drinking till wee hours of the morning which could also attribute to my lack of blogging cause I have trouble remembering what it exactly is that I did the night before. Regardless we’ve been having a ridiculously good time and its hard to believe that we’re gonna be outta here in like 4 more months. We’re planning to do a lot more traveling around Korea during the next couple of months so I’ll have more than just stupid drunken pictures of us. Relax there’ll still be a bunch of those jus more other stuff too.

So anyways here’s what we’ve been up to till bout after New Years and then some. Chek ya later Bitches!!!

- So we went on our first field trip with the little demons that we call kindergartens. Sorry I’m just jaded from being hit, smacked, screamed at, punched, kicked and junked by these little kids that demons is the only thing my brain can justify calling them. We went to a place called Fun Land. A place with ball pits, tubes and slides as far the eye can see, not to mention a million little 2 foot Korean hellions. Look at the one in the pink man, that’s hatred in her eyes, she hurled that plastic ball with rage people, rage!

- If I haven’t already mentioned it, we live like kings up here. Our place is honestly the nicest I’ve ever had to myself. Not to mention we have an oven which in Korea is a luxury. So for Christmas me and Aaron felt obligated to throw a traditional Christmas feast. So we rounded ourselves up a 12 pound turkey, got Aaron’s mom’s recipe for stuffing, and a 1kg can of corn, Thank You Costco!! All in all the dinner was amazing and everyone ended up trashed, not to mention leftovers. Who doesn’t love Christmas!

- So naturally we were in a very festive mood after our Christmas dinner success that we decided to celebrate, and what better way to do that than to join the Seoul Gun Club and fire off a couple of rounds. Now I’m not one for violence, but there’s jus something bout dudes and guns, I guess it’s a testosterone thing. It was fun as hell though!!

- Next weekend we had the chance to shred some Korean pow. We were invited by our director and her family to go snowboarding with them. We took on some new comers to the sport and had our fair share of fun watching the little snow bunnies eat shit over and over and over again! It was an awesome feeling rippin down the hill and realizing that I just carved a Korean mountain.

*Random Korean Encounter*

Drunken Korean Dude says to Cid: "You're beautiful!"

Cid: "Heheheh...Thanks"

Drunk Korean Dude: "How come you can speak?"

Damn straight drunken korean dude, damn fuckin straight.... how come she can speak. Thats bullshit, I'm gonna look for a mute button!

Whassup Bitches!!! yeah been lazy for the past little while, it's cold here my brain tends to hibernate sometimes. Nonetheless I am still here and ready to hook y'all up with some nonsense to help you all waste time be it while at work or just not wanting to write that paper that you know you should have finished two days ago. Regardless of the situation I have your remedy! Alright so this post is gonna take us back to the good ol month of October. I just looked through the pics for that month and holy shit we were up to a whole lot. So for the purposes of simplicity and my overall laziness, this post will be in point form with lots of pictures... hmm I sense no complaints... either you like the pictures or not fond of my writing... bastards!! Anyways I'll be bak again soon with some more fun stories till then enjoy peeps!!

- First off we had the arrival of the infamous Ciddy Woolford and her friend Neetu. I think Cid got to Korea drunk, so we jus thought we'd keep goin. This is the night that started a number of rediculous and very blurred weekends here in S.K.


































- We went to a martial arts festival and took a sweet little boat cruise with our director and some of her friends in Southern province of South Korea called Chung-Ju. Have you ever seen a little asian dude get knocked the fuck out by a round house super kick.. I have.. and it's funny as hell!!!


































- Next up we hit up City Hall for the annual Seoul Drum Festival, which had to be one of the most amazing musical experiences I've ever witnessed. The whole show was outdoors and the vibe was just awesome! Aaron did a little show of his own.. we like attention!!



































- Off to the happiest place on Earth.. its Everland!!! One of Korea's largest amusement park was clearly not ready for the nonsense that we were going to unleash upon it. Booze + theme park = extremely rediculous pictures and lots of heckling of the poor foreigners trying to earn money prancing around in light costumes. Ya see rocket man over there, yeah almost fought that guy, I think I was being a dick. Ah well, maybe next time you won't wear your red tighty whitys on the outside of ur pants.

- Our boy Blitz turned the big 2-3 and we rang that in style! We hit the town and painted it drunk. We partyed in an area called Hongdae, which is home to Seoul's largest university, good times!! Of course what would a bday be without a drunken dip in a grimy river! Thanks to the gadgetry of the internet we're able to share what has to be one ofthe funniest things I have ever seen. Watch and you'll see!!

Later that weekend we went bungee jumping to top off the bday festivities, a little sketchy the jump was but hey we're in S.K if it wasn't sketchy I'd be worried! I'm still alive so it was good.

- And of course how could we have October without everyone's favourite holiday Halloween. Now of course Aaron had to go and steal the show with the most rediculous costume known to man. Not only that but we decided why waste this in a cab ride, so we decided to ride the subway. I have never seen so many confused Koreans in one area, but they loved it. Did I mention we love attention!!

So I'm not sure if I'm breaking rules of Blogging by throwing in a post that doesn't flow with the timeline of events that are goin down in S.K, but this my friends is a speacial post. Why you may ask? Well yours truly has finally gotten what he has longed for since his first taste at the ripe old age of 18. I GOT NEW INK BABY!! And if you haven't figured it out, I'm exremely stoked about it and thought why not share it with the rest of the cyber world.
So when I first got here I was told that getting a tattoo was gonna be next to impossible cause they are really frowned upon in S.K, but relentless as I am I couldn't just accept defeat. I mean since I got my first tat all I've ever wanted was to get another one, and for those of you who do have a tattoo may share the same adictive longing for that oh so wonderful pain of a tattoo needle, and for those of you that don't have one, no I'm not a sadist, I just have a passion for hurting my body in the good name of art. Anyways by pure luck I met this bartender at a club who had some pretty sick work done on his forearm so I asked him where he had gotten it done. He hooked me up with what a website address for a tattoo artist named Yushi.
So after months of endless searching I finally found the design that I was looking for and rang up Yushi. I have to say he is one of the koolest kats I know in the world, he's really laid back and humble and can speak English, always a plus in S.K. Not only that but he's fucking sick!! He's won awards at tattoo conventions all over the world and has been trained by one of the best tattoo artists in Asia, his master hailing from Japan who is also world renowned. The tattoo is of an angel, I'm not gonna go into too much detail as to why I picked this design, after months of searching this one jus screamed out to me and I knew as soon as saw it that it was the one. The angel represents perservierence and reminds me of the struggles that we encounter in our lives, regardless of which we should continually push through to brighter and better days.
Yeah I know its pretty big and the spot that I choose to put it I was told after I had gotten it done is one of the most painful spots on the body, let me the first one to vouch for that one, and if you can't tell by my rediculous facial expressions that Aaron so eloquently captured for you all to see, it fucking killed. Altogether it took 5 hours in two seperate sessions; the result is a beautiful piece of artwork that I can now call my own for the rest of my life, and we also gained a bunch of really awesome Korean friends out of it too. So all in all jus another good day in S.K!