What I wouldn't give for a bag of fresh dill pickle potato chips.
so I've been trying to follow the Olympics over here, and unless you've got the innate ability to understand their reasoning behind it, they barely follow the Olympics. I asked my kids the other day what was happening in Italy right now, just as a random question, and they all looked at me as if I had just asked them how to decipher the meaning of Pi - they had no clue. It took them five minutes of ridiculous hints to try and tell them, and then, even after they knew what I was asking them about, they asked me in their popular tone "SO"? As if to ask me why I'm bothering them with something so insignificant. I knew before that South Korea isn't exactly known for their winter sports - or summer for that matter, however, I was hoping for a little more than tape-delayed women's hockey games broadcasted at night on the same channel. I've got close to sixty channels, and the only thing they broadcast is women's hockey and speedskating. Now, I have gone to the local Canadian bar in the military district to watch the US and Canadian hockey games, most on tape delay, but its just less than an hour from my house - there's nothing closer. The only highlight of last week was securing bets from two girls for 5000 Won about who would win the US and Slovakia game - the game had been completed the night before - we already knew the score. However, the American girls could not comprehend that their all-powerful men's hockey team would lose to a country they had never heard of before "Slovakia, what is that, some city in Russia"? However, our wager was void when just as we were shaking hands on the wager, the South African saved them by asking if the game was live or not.....At least most Americans are consistent in their lack of geography skills...(not that Canadians are much better)
This past weekend, I went to a Korean wedding - my first since I've been here. It was quite the experience, especially since I knew the bride quite well - she looked beautiful, but its nothing even close to a western style wedding - over here, the wedding hall where you get married actually gives you the option of hiring "extras", so that when you look at the film of the wedding when its over, it doesn't look like you have no friends...(the wedding I was at definitely didn't have that problem - the opposite in fact...) Overall the weather was beautiful, even though it was an indoor wedding, and the trip down riding with my boss was slightly more beneficial with the sunshine - beat riding with him in the rain.
Other than that, things are going good with me, and I hope they are the same with you. Keep your stick on the ice, and your head up - I'll see you later.
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