Friday. May 14th. 2010. 6:30 pm. After work my co-workers Lach and Jason and I were enjoying a cold beer on the patio of the convenience store at the entrance of our apartment building. I was spacing out and thought to myself, "huh. Does that much smoke usually come from over there? NO! THAT BUILDING IS ON FIRE!" So I made the announcement and we all turned to look as the giant warehouse that is literally 20 yards from my front door burst in to flame. In less than 20 minutes the warehouse was destroyed and the shops in front were in serious danger. Luckily the fire went towards the street instead of towards my house. Cars melted and were destroyed. There was melted glass around my door. Devastating.
These are some firemen fighting the fire in hopes of stopping the spread to the shops. I thought the smoke surrounding the top of the dude was kind of cool.
20 minutes until total destruction. Hot hot hot.
From where we were sitting. Seeing the building. Debating whether I should run in and grab my passport at least.
Monday. May 17. 2010. We took a field trip to the Horse Track. We had hoped that we would have the chance to teach the kids about odds and risks. But they just played on the playground, took pictures in some flowers, and then rode a pony around a ring. They loved it. And it was a beautiful day!
7 year olds. King class and Robot class.
Kimbap. This is rice, crab, fish, spam, radish, egg, carrot, unidentified fish stuff wrapped in seaweed. It's delicious. And it's a snack, lunch, breakfast, dinner here. It's what Korean's eat on the go instead of french fires.
Thursday-Sunday. May 20th-23rd. Muuido Islands. Buddha's Birthday. Thursday after work we went to the Inchon Airport in hopes of getting to the Island real early. We sat there from 11 pm til 7 am. And didn't even get on a plane. Frustrating and in hindsight, unnecessary. But you live and you learn. At 7, we got in Taxi's and went to the ferry. Then we took a 7 minute ferry ride to the Island. And hung out in beautiful sunshine on the beach all day Friday. We climbed rocks, played frisbee with starfish and invented Shell hole. A game I'm pretty proud of. Its corn hole but with shells and holes in the sand instead of beanbags and boards. Extremely entertaining. We slept in these huts. 8ft by 8ft boxes on stilts. 30 bucks a night. Pretty cool. Saturday it was hazy and a little chilly. But I was still outside on the beach all day. Loving life. Sunday it was rainy but we stayed and played and hiked a little til noon. Came home. Passed out. I need a weekend to recover from the three day weekend. Some quick points of interest from the weekend. *The tide literally went out a mile. Mud flats. Crazy cool. *I was wearing a Wooster hoodie and guy asked me if thats where I went. He went to Hiram, a school in our conference where I almost died Freshman year after swimming the 200 meter fly. *A guy introduced himself as Fritz, from Wittenberg. Our rival school. * Then, a guy came up to me and said "Aren't you Katie Dale, the swimmer from Wooster?" I said uhhhh nope. Turns out we graduated together and have mutual friends. Pretty small world.
Sunday mini hiking trip. BeBe, SaraBrown, Jason, Louis.
The huts. They fit 4 people comfortably.
"Adventures from the Annex to Asia" continues with SaraBrown playing Shell Hole on Muuido Island in South Korea.
We drank luke warm beer all weekend. Hite is my second favorite cheap beer in Korea. I usually prefer Cass. This starfish was a frisbee before it got to pose with the beer. I just think it's a cool picture.
Me and Jason after exploring the rocks of Muuido. So happy to be on the beach, outside, in a suit, with no shoes, for three days. I think I hate living in a city.
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