Annyoung!: May 2011

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

East Cost Adventure, Rated R (you may not want to see this one in the office)

Earlier this month, we bused ourselves over to the east side of Korea to see what it was like on the other part of the (penis)ula. Once we arrived, 6 hours after we left, we met up with our friends Paul and Cecil. They told us about a famous male inspired park. We looked at them with astonishment and yelled, "Poppy-cock!" After a quick bite to eat, we took a taxi to the peni-rific park situated right on the edge of a beautiful little fishing village. As we strolled the man-scaped pathways, we could hear the roar of the ocean crashing against the shore and the cries of the virgin spirit who has haunted the fisherman for centuries.

As legend goes, there was once a beautiful virgin who's fiancé took her to a rock in the ocean and told to wait, for he would soon return. However, with his failure to return, the love struck girl was swept out to sea with the rising tide never to be seen again. From that day on, the village was plagued with poor catches and swore that it was the ghost of the virgin causing their misfortune. In order to satisfy the thirsty ghost, the villagers "erected" larger than life penises, and with them the fish returned.

We figured the next logical place to go after the penis park was a giant cave nestled atop a sound-of-music-esque mountain which we had to hike up to get to. To our surprise the cave was large enough to fit a small town in. We spent three hours exploring all it's nooks and crannies and even got absolved of all our sins along the way. Not bad for a $3 entrance fee.

Even the plants had private parts

jumping jehosaphat

The benches sure are hard around here

Smile for the camera

Surfs UP

"A 'BIG' thanks"

I'm on a boat...

Cock-a-doodle-do

Seaweed preperation

Ancient grain grinder

Hope this blog didn't bug u too much

Entrance to the cave

Stalactites in motion

I'm in a cave...

Cavebow

First the Great Wall of China, next, The Great Wall of Korea

Lunch in the forest

A traditional Korean mountain home.

Hope you liked it...

Fun Fishing with Friends and Foreigners

For our monthly school outing, the director of our school decided to take us all out on a lovely fishing trip. He chartered a huge boat, got all the necessary tackle, and stocked up on beer and soju. The weather was a quite cloudy and there was rain in the forecast, but there was no stopping our adventure. We borded the boat and as we looked around we noticed there were no fishing poles to be seen. Instead we fished with plastic, rectangular, devise with fishing line tied to it. To that we attached a leader with 2 hooks and a 1 kilogram weight.

We set sail around 1:00 and all hoped for the best. At our first stop John caught a beautiful bass about the size of his pinky. Little did we know that this would be the only fish hauled in all day. We didn't let that stop us from having a blast as we slurped hot ramen and played go fish till the boat docked.

The director decided that if you can't get'em with your reel, might as well get'em for a meal. So, he took us to a delightful sushi joint where we got to experience just about every creature in the sea raw and uncensored. We even got to eat live octopus... that’s right, wiggling, suctioning, squirming, LIVE octopus. And of course, it was delicious (once we got past the fact that there was something other than our tongues moving around in our mouth). Here are the pictures, enjoy!