The Korean Mountain Girl And A Trip To Seoul

Friday morning we went along as crowd control to see Heidi. The story of the little Swiss mountain girl, performed in Korean. We took our kindegarten classes to a children's theatre in central Suwon, to see the production. It was great fun, and they were all really well behaved, which suprised us pleasently.

Friday night was adult time. And we went with Ben into Seoul to a student district with plenty of bars and nightclubs. You paid 15,000 won for a wrist-band, that allowed you into 15 different clubs in the area. So we wandered from place to place, hooking up with various westerners (all teachers), as we danced into the wee hours.

We caught the first train back to Suwon in the morning, after bumping into John, and American teacher we'd met the week before in Suwon. He was staggering into a nightclub we were just leaving, looking at little worse for wear.

Saturday was quite, in recovery from Friday. Not hung-over, just tired nore than anything. A good English breakfast soon put things right, and lots of sofa time in front of the TV did the rest.

Sunday was back into Seoul. Shopping! Or at least checking out the vast array of shopping malls packed into such a small area of the capital. Plenty of cool clothes, at reasonable prices. Brilliant, can't wait to get paid properly. After tramping around and around the shops we caught the Metro to Hongdae another bar and club area that Ben knew of.

This is where all the American GI's hang-out. So a lot of short cropped hair, whining accents and pumped-up red-necks. Great! They have the MP's patrolling the bars checking on the boys. Strange to think the same thing has been going on for over 50 years, since the Korean war. It's not a bad place, full of western faces, and the slightly seedier side of Korean life.

Well back to work now anyway, it's Tuesday, so that means cinema in Suwon. What is fast becoming a tradition on a Tuesday night. God knows what we'll watch tonight, as long as it's english language we'll be fine.