A weekend of trouble if I've ever seen one.

I got pretty sad on friday when my co-teacher's declined my invitation to continue to the next round, thank god I have friends in this town to keep me company. The lightning that night scared me so bad too. I had never heard such close strikes before, but they happen almost every night; I am still perplexed by my friend kate who sleeps through it all and asks me to call her and wake her up: "If lightning striking the roof of your house doesn't wake you up, then your cell phone that plays 'Mr. Bojangles' won't get you out of bed either."

So some of the lovely women from Jeju-si came down and we felt obliged to show them a good time in the little town of Seogwipo. We found this fantatstic beach with a waterfall that falls straight into the water(almost). I get down the stairs and this women immediately asks me, "how did you hear about this place?" She asked it in a manner that made me think she was telling us to leave. But her follow-up made it slightly better: "It's just that only koreans know about this place." I can see why, Rafiq had to lead us down a bumkin road with a restaurant at the end. We walked through the restaurant and next the bathrooms was a small pathway that led down to the cove where "agima"s (old women) were massaging themselves in the waterfall and cooling their watermelons in the pools below. It was awesome, we put these plastic bags over our heads and went into the pounding streams, korean style of course, fully clothed.

The rest of the day needs not be discussed. It was fine and dandy, with many references to Lauryn being a Russian prostitute, and speaker systems to play a constant soundtrack to the adventures, thank you toby for Bonobo.

Oh, but I did finally find avocados... almost $3.50 a pop, maybe more if you count the currency conversion. If you can send some that get past customs, I'll give you my soul in exchange.

Ahh, and it's always funny to say goodbye to people who need to yak before they get on the bus back home... America sends the best of the best as Cultural Ambassadors. That's not fair, our intent from the get-go that night was to assimilate into Korean culture. They just have faster metabolisms.