I've Got Seoul!!!

Ahhh, Seoul...such a big city!! Seoul is great. We arrive at night so the lights were popping and the drive to the hotel was AWESOME!!! Each city we have a coach bus taking us to and from places. This bus...omg!!! First off, the sign on the front of the bus said "Foreign Tourists On Board"....wtf, lets just announce to the entire city that we are a bus load of tourists. We get on the bus and its full of neon lights, mirrors, the arm rests have golf club head covers which i SO wanted to steal one...but didnt. My conscious got the best of me~for once! :) We have a guide which was hysterical..it was by far one of the best hour long rides we had. She had us cracking up, she was pulling down maps from the ceiling pointing to things, making sounds I have never heard before and just plain funny. One of the guys is an actor back home so he was cracking jokes and started singing. Low and behold, she pulls out the microphone for what other that karaoke!!! The bus went crazy but she came back on and said that the driver did not hook it up before he picked us up. Americans like to sing!! He should have known this..but, it was a fun trip anyway. We have visits on Friday and a fair at night. We are all looking foward to unwinding as we have Friday night off and do not fly out until 12:45 on Saturday. After a long day and a long fair, the hotel has a happy hour they host and we all head up. The fair gets over at 7 and happy hour gets over at 7:30 so we talked them into staying open. They agreed to stay open until 10:00. That was their first mistake. Open bar, open food and 30 admissions counselors....EEEKS!!! We depleted the bottles and all of the food..and we all are pretty tipsy. A few of us wanted to go out so we head to another bar. This bar was in the hotel and here you could pay 400 won for two bottles of jack, 8 beers, appetizers and what else...karaoke. Basically it came down to about 20 a person USD but since there were about 20 of us, we decided not to do it and hit the town. We took taxis to a nearby hot spot which was full of bars and eateries. We only can fit 4 people in a taxi and there are 10 of us. We somehow con the driver into letting 5 of us in. Of course not one of us have money in the group so it was interesting. We had to offer to pay double to let all 5 of us in, which he obliged. We take 2 taxis and of course get seperated. We were walking around thinking we never were going to see our friends when they pulled up..not sure how that happened. We were walking around asking people if they spoke English and of course they didnt! We found a polish dude who ended up taking us to some club. When you paid at the door, you got a free beer! How sweet! After dancing here for awhile, one of the guys got on stage and took his shirt off....dumb Americans..I know that's what they were all thinking! After a few people on stage with the dj, (NOT ME!!!), we finally head home. It was like midnight and we were all toast, I mean tired. We hadnt eaten much in the last couple of days so I had to order room service. I got a cheeseburger thinking it would be good...haha, it was not meat I was used to. It was a bit spongy so I ate the fries. I really have not had too much native food, I have eaten sandwhiches at the schools which most of them provide. I have eaten pizza which was interesting and really that's about it. Oh, I had to buy another suitcase seeing as how i was overweight and having to take brochures and materials on the plane means I pay overage charges. So, now I have two carry ons and lugging through airports does not make for easy navigation. Our next stop is Taipei which I have never been to. Looking foward to seeing another country!!

Oh, the funniest part of Seoul is the toilets. Each seat is heated and they have the options of an ass hose..I mean a bliday, or however you spell it. I have never used on, nor do I plan on using one but, this is freakin hysterical. One of the ladies came out of a school visit on Friday saying she just had the worst visit. I was thinking she did not see students and was just complaining about the visit...was I wrong! She was in the bathroom of the school where they also have these funky toilets. I guess Korean's like to be clean. At any rate, she said she could not figure out how to flush the toilet and ended up pushing a button and got the spray RIGHT IN HER FACE....I think at this point, I would have had a breakdown. She looked perfect, me on the other hand, I would have had make up all over my face smeared from the water. I could not help but laugh, which she was laughing as well so it was ok. But, can you imagine thinking you are flushing a toilet and WHAM...water in the face. First off, I dont think my face would have been that close to the bowl, but in desperate times of flushing, I guess one never knows.

So, after a few good times in Seoul, we are on our way out. I am sitting in the airport and one of the guys said he had to show me something on his computer. This was while we were boarding so I didnt find out until later that our little interviews in Beijing...THEY ARE ON THE INTERNET!!! I about died. I searched the internet and low and behold, there were are on the net for the world to see. Of course, I have a picture looking ever so constipated and scared to death!! Another picture is ok, but I still do not like the fact that we are even on the internet. Of course it is in Chinese, so I will post the link soon. Maybe... :)

Well, I have to get ready for a high school visit, so I will post more later. Asta for now!!