heart attack

So in the space of 24 hours I nearly had two heart attacks...

First, driving around on my bike to a coffee date I ran into my first roadblock.
Not having a bike license, I immediately broke out a sweat. I felt my heart pounding in my chest."What is jail like in South Korea?" was my first thought. I don't know, and I really did not want to find out. The evil karate cop with his tiny eyes, looking scary at me, stopped me for a Breathalyzer. Everyone blowing on the same breathalyzer?? hell no!! as the tae kwando chop cop stopped me, i was planning a hit and run... hit the cop with the helmet and run as far as i could!!!

all i could get out was...

"Ain't no way I'm blowing on that..."
don't know who got the bigger fright, me? or the cop?

Way to much english for a Korean cop and he ended up waving his funny yellow glowing ching chong cha stick saying "go!go!go!"....

Way to close to jail!!! hhahaha

That was heart attack number 1.
So for heart attack number two its a whole different story.

I nearly died of an amazing heart attack after I had my first bite of SKIPPY extra crunchy peanut butter in about 7 months time...  It was to die for!! Never thought i would miss it this much.  But theres little in life that can replace Skippy peanut butter. All i can say is...OH KOREA

Mexican in Korea

So you'd think to yourself what does South Korea, Mexico, America and Souh Africa have in common? I would like to say they are planning to take over to world but no instead this combination gives you the perfect lunch!!! 

How on earth you might wonder?

Well Friday during class I (South African) got this random message from my 2 stunning American friends (Alisha and Beka) asking me if I would like to join them on a trip to Busan (its the second biggest city in South Korea) to go find this Mexican restuarant down in Heaundae beach. 

Now you just need to say Heaundae beach and I'm in. And a new thing I learned was that the Americans are VERY passionate about their mexican food. Maybe its just because we have like NO mexicans in South Africa but they where shocked when they found that I do not really know Mexican food that well.

So we jumped on a bus for over an hour for mexican food -very passionate indeed- and with the help of Chelsea's good directions (another American) and Beka's perfect senses tuned into to finding a yellow sign, we found it!

It was a cute little restuarant with these posties all over the wall of people around the world that have visited it before. 

So ofcourse we had to make our own.

Then it came to  the food! (I totally get  why they are made about Mexican food). We decided  to have a starter first. And the choice was fresh gaucamole with nachos. And it was amazing!!! That avocado was perfect. By nature (since moving to korea) I had to add some spice. Good old fasioned Tabasco.

 As if the guacamole and nochos weren't enough! We had burrito's as our main! I ended up choosing a chicken burrito. And I couldn't help but finishing this brilliant meal off with a Corona (mexican beer? - I think-).

We had to finish the day of with a view of the beach. All and all it was a fun day out with my new friends. I am so looking up mexican food when I'm back in SA. And ok, the Americans? not that bad, at all!

Marli in Korea

Ok for some insane reason –it never happens to me- have I been either way to busy or way to lazy to blog. I think it might be the second one but lets ignore it. Look at the positive, I could have been lazy and busy together.

So many things have happened since my last blog, but most special, my dear friend Marli came to visit.

 It was probably the longest trip to the airport as I have been waiting for this day from my first day in Korea! And what an awesome feeling it was seeing her arrive and walking through those gates! We stayed in the most dodgy motel ever but perfect location.

 Had a 5 star, 5 course meal up in Seoul tour! The view, indescribable. Then hit Seoul Sunday morning, walking the streets of Myeongdong, Seoul plaza, Seoul underground shopping and visited a historical sight, all being soaking wet. 

Not even the rain could stop us. Finally, exhausted and wet made our way to the Nambu bus station at 6 to find the busses are all sold out until 12!! So we ended up spending about 5 and a half hours in a coffee shop….

We managed to go to Oede Island! A first time for me as well. The scenery was breath taking, the creativity astonishing and the boat ride CRAZY. First we had to deal with the ajuma’s all eating dried out octopus, then falling asleep falling all over the place, and then we were lucky enough to see them all get sick on the boat as well! Senior citizens in Korea = weird!!!!

We were also amazed by the driving skills of the captain; he takes you right into this small cave in the rocks!! You can touch the rocks on the sides of the boat, and then he backs out of the cave again, with waves coming in! Was way cool!

The weekend we hit Busan! I do love Busan! Biff shopping area, even found a hang ten store. Went to jagalchi fish market (something like the biggest fish market in the world I think) then Heaundae beach. We took a boat ride out, went to the aquarium. Had beer on the beach. Had a big motel room and just all in all Busan was an awesome place to hang out!

Two weeks came to an end way to soon! Most difficult part was to say goodbye to a truly loved and adored friend.

 6 months and we will meet up again! Miss you already! Than you for allowing me to share Korea with you!