"It's Christmas in Killarney..." or, rather, Korea.
Having never spent a Christmas away from home ever was a wee bit depressing. The holiday season in Korea is not quite as obvious as it is in Canada. Who knew that I'd actually miss the mass commercialized holiday and the incessant carols being played from Halloween to Boxing Day.
But the foreigners in Jochiwon rallied against all the Grinchy odds and celebrated as best we could.
It all started with a Christmas party at Brenda and Sean's place. Pretty awesome. Full of carol singing and awesome cheese fondue and good times. I even came home with a bottle of red wine that I picked out myself.
Next up came Noraebang (sp?) a week later. Karaoke is a whole new experience here. And it was....awesome. But one of those 'you had to be there' times.
Christmas morning dawned two days later and, after a brunch of waffles and a kiwi smoothie (very good, by the way) Ruth and I headed to Daejeon to the Nam Sung fitness park for some awesome ice skating. Chilled with some middle school girls there, ran over some Koreans, and over all had, yes, a pretty awesome time. Hit up Costco for candy and cream cheese, had pasta at a weird french place (it was awesome pasta, better than some I've had even in Canada), and headed back to Jochiwon. Not the way I imagined I'd ever spend Christmas but altogether it was a pretty good day.
Boxing Day, which doesn't exist in Korea as far as I know, was spent calling family and lounging around at home and ended with a pretty, yes again, awesome concert by a youth orchestra at the Yeongi Cultural Art Centre.
Overall....pretty awesome.
So glad you had such an overall, awesome Christmas. Love you.
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