Welcome to the 2010 edition of the Birthday blog post! And what a birthday celebration it was! I owe a lot of thanks to my birthday partner in crime, Gina (November 5th), who took it upon herself to plan out the majority of our joint birthday party last Saturday night and she did a fantastic job and it was a very fun evening!
The weekend festivities began Saturday evening with a nice galbi (갈비) and samgyeopsal (삼겹살) Korean barbeque dinner. We had a pretty big group of us, I think roughly 30 people and the restaurant we were at was nice enough to give us a nice corner for our party crew. After dinner we reconvened at our spot for the rest of the evening, the Nori Play Pub, also in Hongdae. Once the majority of our party people arrived, we started the scavenger hunt, Gina's pet project and the centerpiece of the evening's events. It was a grueling 2 hours of endurance and fun filled with endless challenges and riddles. I provided the prizes for the winning teams and needless to say, the 1st place team definitely enjoyed their prize. The rest of the night was spent dancing the night away well into early Sunday morning. Thanks again to all the friends that came out to celebrate with Gina, myself, or the both of us. The party was a lot of fun and I'm already looking forward to next year (although I'm not sure where the celebration will be).
Sunday we had a nice recovery day beginning with a little Frisbee and followed up with some much needed jjimjilbang relaxation. All in all it was an amazing weekend and it was hard for me to see it end and get back to the working week. This week, tomorrow in fact, I will be participating as a judge in the district-wide elementary school English speech contest, which means that I get to leave school after lunch (nice!) and listen to the various speeches and interview students after. Thursday is a very special day here in Korea. It is known as Pepero (빼빼로) Day. Pepero are thin chocolate covered cookies and are shaped like the number 1 so on 11/11 everyone gives and receives them. This weekend it's a toss up whether I go to an Apple Festival on Saturday or to a surfing festival, it's all weather depending and in the last week the weather has gotten significantly colder. There was even a snow sighting last night. Anyways, that's all from here, this month just keeps getting better with the Flaming Lips concert in two weekends and the Manila tournament at the end of the month, hooray for November! I'll leave you guys with some more birthday pics:
What I'm listening to: "Save My Love" by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band off of The Promise
You can stream 15 tracks from The Promise online here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130858856
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