Let me first start by initiating a turf war...

Hey Turzo! Your blog sucks and you smell like old buckets of kimchi. My Asian blog is the only Asian blog there is; the internet ain't big enough for the two of us.

Anyway, I took a trip to Seoul this weekend. It was unbelievable. I went with one of the girls on our program to meet her family and have them impress all of her friends. Seriously, she told us that her uncle wanted to do something grand for her, specifically saying that he "would make her the most popular girl". It worked for me, shit. He paid for a minibus to pick us up in Chuncheon at 8am, which arrived with all her family except the uncle, because he had some unexpected work. The bus ride was bumpy and winding. My hangover proved to be a battle instead of a hydrate-and-go kind of day. We finally got to our fun activity he had planned which was rafting. The river was tame, but the sights were ridiculous. I felt like an early explorer, except there were dozens of other rafts on the same river, but if you looked up at the cliffs and waterfalls all around us, it was breathtaking. The rapids were slow, but somehow one of the fatter older men fell out and a girl, Cristina's cousin, fell out as well. All too hilarious, but having it translated I'm sure takes out some of the humor.

The guide asked me his age, I said I thought he was 28 and that's when I was forced out of the raft. I had to tag along in the water for a while. Turns out you can be off by only 4 years and offend people like you used a racial slur. He thought I was 29, that Asshole. Then after that he set me up for a trick by having the cousin do the Titanic thing hangin off the front. So I was supposed to hold onto her lifejacket and keep her from falling, but of course he just swings the boat and makes me lose my balance, letting the prissy 15 year old fall into the water while her entire family is yelling at me in Korean. I was forced to leave the raft again.

Then he had us switch things up for a while and I rode in the back with him. We got to this long calm spot and I decided to pull my legs up out of te straps and rest crosslegged style. I was told at the beginning to always keep your legs in the straps. I was forced out of the boat again, rather abruptly.

The day was fabulous and when we were done in the afternoon, we were driven to Seoul to have dinner with the fam and shown a good time by the cousins...