first week (revised ed.)

howdy. it's been a couple days. the two pictures above are seoul's version of american street meat. on both hot dog and hamburger they already have on them pre-squeezed mustard and ketchup. they don't give you a choice but they sure do put it on in perfect zig-zags. the fried concoction to the right is basically a pogo with embedded french fries. yes, i bought one out of desperating and ate most of it. i obviously threw out the hot dog (and wooden stick). just awful.
did i mention it's next to impossible to eat vegetarian in korea? i'll either slowly wither away on bananas and vitamin pills or gain thirty pounds because i end up gorging myself on awful pizza (with sweet corn) and beer. i won't say which of the two is more probable.
the other picture is a bar in sinchon. it's either the judas or sabbath bar. they can't decide. there are a few foreign hangouts around there and that night a buddy i teach with named adam played host. another english teacher named alison and i tagged along and drank outside a 7-11 with about ten other friends of adam's. more pictures can be found here.

the last couple of days involved hanging around our new skool: kwanghee elementary school, going to take care of various tasks, eating lunch out at really decent restaurants for dirt cheap, etc.
the two other veggies and i from our skool found a really decent rare vegetarian restaurant yesterday. it's in insadong so i can't forget that.
last night i also went to jamsil sports complex, where the 1988 olympic games were held, and saw a baseball game between the doosan bears and the kia tigers with four other dudes from my co-op residence. baseball definitely ain't the same as back home. it's quite bizarre actually. on the third base line is one supporting section and on the first base line are the fans from the other team. they have all sorts of crazy cheers that they all do in unison using these blow-up balloon sticks. they've also each got a little stage where an enthusiastic dude with a whistle leads the cheers. of course they had four cheerleaders too. oh yeah, the bears whipped the tigers 10-3. none of these guys will make the majors back home let alone be a bat boy. ouch.
tata.