NEW YEAR

So yesterday we went to the Bank then to Dongdaemun and bought some yarn and stopped at the grocery store to get some necessary food... That took most of the day... and most of our money... Our fingers and toes ached from the cold and the second we got home we tucked in under layers and blankets. I made some chicken for dinner then we met Kenny and Nick at Megabox to see what times the movies were playing... We took a cab there then found out the next showing wasn't until 9:55 so we got a smoothie and hung out in the Megabox (like a department store or small mall). One of Kenny's friends was having a party so we took a cab to their house and hung out and played funny games. They taught us a Korean game called baskin robins 31 where you count up until 31 either counting "123" or "45" or just one number at a time and whoever gets to 31 looses. Then we played another game called 3,6,9 or "sam, uke, coo" (in Korean) where you count with the whole group but you have to clap on the 3, 6, 9, 13 and 16, etc. always clapping instead of saying the number if it has a 3,6,9. After some other tapping game and "Bee Bo Bang Aww" and a strange version of kings we watched a new years show where they counted down from 60 seconds... Super Junior performed and other Korean artists... the place looked packed and I really wish I had gone but when I asked Danny what they do for New Years he said they don't do anything... Which was completely false because it looked like it was busier than Time Square!! So I was disappointed but I had fun meeting new people and learning some Korean games. After the new year was over they all wanted to go out to a club but Eddie and I decided it was time to head home so we said our goodbyes and walked home (which happened to be really close by!) Today Sally said she still wasn't ready for a lesson yet and Sery's mom sent me a sms (text) in broken English asking if I could come later so my day isn't too busy today... I will finish Eddie scarf since I got more yarn...


In Dongdaemun we took exit 9 then wandered around a lot because the yarn shops are hidden under ground but once we found them it was awesome... To find it we followed a guy with a cart of yarn around the corner and then down a ramp into a big basement... there was yarn everywhere and lots of different merchants with different kinds of yarns... most people were knitting while they worked and I almost felt bad bothering them to ask "Oh my yo?" or how much... but they were all very helpful...There were lots of American's down there too... I guess a lot of people knit here... I spent about $40 but I got 4 packages of 4 balls of yarn each so it was like $2.50 a ball roughly... They don't sell any single balls of yarn ...you have to buy a pack of 4 so if you ask how much one ball is they say 1 pound is 10,000 which was confusing at first because I thought she was saying pound like the currency but then I figured it out... so the prices weren't so bad....

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!