Day 4: the demonstration

well, sorry kids, i didn't get any of those line dance pictures for you. it was way too risky. this morning was even more hilarious though, because i got there for the ending and they all lined up and started hitting eachother on the back and on the butt. then they all had a good ol' laugh. i really felt like i was looking onto a prison yard scene or something. those silly koreans...

anyways, we started our day off with some lunch at a little whole in the wall place. we found a coupon on the street, so we thought we'd try them out. (we constantly see the businesses place coupons on the ground instead of handing them to people.) they handed us aprons because it was like spaghetti but with a spicy red pepper sauce. so, there we were, with our little aprons on, sitting on the floor, eating noodles with chopsticks. what a sight.

we finished and hopped on the subway. in the back of every car, there are 6 seats. i found out from jean that its an unwritten rule that you leave those seats for the elderly. but when the elderly get in fist fights, you can step in and take one of their seats. Luckily, thats what happened today. there were 2 grandpas sitting next to each other, and one of them said something in low form to the other. thats another big no no. so, they started yelling at each other and then shoving each other around. Jean and i bravely intervened, but Jean got punched. it was pretty funny and we all had a good laugh.

we got out at MyoungDo, which is a big mall. if i was a girl, i'd probably think it was heaven. there were shoes and sunglasses everywhere. its almost seemed that this was the only thing that korea was manufacturing. it got boring real fast so we caught a taxi and went to a museum. the place was a ghost town. i guess everybody else already knows korean history, so we had the whole museum to ourselves. there was this ceramic pottery puzzle for children that was impossible. it took Jean and I about an hour to put it together. if i had every wanted to become an archaeologist, i buried those hopes in that moment. it just proves how genius these asians really are... minus Jean.

after that we hit up a demonstration against american cattle regulations. i don't really know what it was all about, but there were about 300 police officers standing to pounce at the scene of a riot. people were throwing water balloons at big signs of ranchers and stuff. it was crazy fun. we actually went to go see the fountains and stream that ran through the plaza, but when we showed up, we couldn't turn back because the police had blocked the way. so, Jean and i made the most of it... meaning that we walked through it and found another way out. but atleast now you can say that you have a liberal friend that participates in demonstrations against the united states.