This past weekend I traveled around a large part of Korea. Friday I went to Busan to visit Seth and meet his host family. Friday night we all went out to dinner and then went back to their apartment and carved pumpkins with the two boys. The both did an amazing job, and the parents seemed to enjoy it as well. None of them had ever carved pumpkins before so I'm sure it was an interesting experience for them. The host dad took one of the pumpkins into his bedroom with him so he could sleep with it glowing in his room haha. Saturday was the littlest brother's birthday party so we hung around the apartment for a little while and watched the kids. Saturday we had plans to meet our friends in a town called Gwangju for a Halloween party. We took an almost 4 hour bus ride there Saturday afternoon. Our Halloween party was organized by our friend Dave, who has a friend who manages a coffee shop in the town. His friend allowed us to throw a costume party in his coffee shop after it closed. Almost everyone got dressed up and we played some games at the shop. I dressed up as my friend Cornelius. In case you haven't noticed him in my past pictures, hes the one who is always dressed in a suit and occasionally a bow tie. He's known for his ridiculous outfit choices, so I asked him to let me borrow his clothes as a costume. One of my guy friends had the same idea, so there ended up being 2 Corneliuses at the party. Sidenote: my English classroom, for some reasons unbeknown to me, has a costume closet full of adult-size costumes. I raided the closet and brought a bunch of the costumes with me to Gwangju for my friends to wear (hence the full-on Batman and Santa and Superman costumes). Needless to say, a bunch of white people dressed up in costumes roaming the streets together was not something you usually see on an average Saturday night in Korea. Everyone we passed either yelled out something in English, stopped and gawked, or asked for pictures. I can only imagine what our taxi driver thought when me, Batman, Superman and a clown climbed into his cab.
Here are some pictures from the weekend:
Jan-hee and Seth. Jan-hee is without a doubt the cutest little kid I have ever met. I'm adopting/stealing him and bringing him home with me.
Huan-hee working on his Homer Simpson pumpkin.
When one of the knives broke, Seth's host dad decided to be innovative and broke out the power tools.
Seth and his adorable host family
finished pumpkins
clown & Cornelius
Lauren dressed up as old Korean woman...I can't even tell you how dead on her costume is.
Batman roaming the streets of Gwangju
3 Corneliuses
flip cup team
Chelsey, an angel, Ursula and Waldo
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