Two Years

Well Lets See here. My last post was in AIT (advanced Individual Training) and absolutely nothing happened there. Seriously, my days involved class and movies I occasionally went to the mall and I spent an exorbitant amount of cash on movies at Hastings. That's six months of my life.

 Then glorious Korea. I have to say this, Korea, kicks, major, ass. Being army in Korea, sucks ass. The food there is awesome. I had already decided before I left that I was going to eat everything. Many times i was out in korea proper with friends and stopped at a street food stand.

A little side note here, There are street food stands everywhere, they line the streets in some places. they're basically roach coaches without the trailer. and the food in them is awesome; Dok Boki, Yaki Mandoo, Chicken Skewers, Fried Silk worms (not kidding). But back to the story.

So we stopped at a street food stand and I just point at some random food they have for sale. The lady holds up 5 fingers, indicating 5000 won. I pay her and my friends look at me....

"Do you know what that is?" they say incredulously.

I promptly say "no," and then proceed to put it in my mouth.

The food in Korea, no wait. Food is awesome. If you don't eat it you wont know.

The first six months in korea were pretty cool Work, go to my room play video games (I no longer play wow). And on the weekends explore Korea.

One of my favorite trips I took was down to Busan with a friend. We left at noon and arrived around six. On the train there (Korea has an awesome public transit system) We ended up talking to an 80 year old man who actually served during the Korean war. He worked on the radars, and after the armistice his work experience translated to an electrical engineering degree and so he was picked up at Samsung. I enjoyed myself even though the mans English was understandable wasn't very practiced.

When we arrived at the Busan train station we explored the area and found that there was nothing there. Except Chin-town, which was populated almost exclusively by Russians. we even got propositioned by a Russian pimp. "You want company? We have many beautiful girl"

Eventually we hailed a cab told him to take us to the party and clubbed our way through Busan with a couple Canadians.

That was the first half of Korea. Next time I'll regale you with my 21st birthday.