Rocky Horror Picture Show

Had a fabulous time at Rocky Horror in Itaewon last night. My costume was not as epic as when I went with Hannay but still real good I think;)

Ended up in Hongdai (?). Was dancing till 5 am. Instead of heading to the jimjubong, I just waited for the trains to start up again at 530 am. Exhausted today. Headache to boot.

Had such a grande time at Rocky! So much so that I reminisced in my dreams about Rocky at home. Woke up thinking I was back in Canada. But I'm not. Two and a half months down and weekends to enjoy ...

Halloween

Basically everyone lives in an apartment in Korea. Trick or treating seems to only occur at school, and only just recently. Our North American holidays are gaining popularity over here though.

The foreign teachers spent Saturday after school to create a truly terrfying haunted house. Not sure why it had to be scary as our kids are Korean age 5-7 (minus a year for North American ages). Heck, I was even scared when they turned out the lights!

I just hope my little ones don't cry!

haircut

Had my hair did today. Overall turned out nicely. One side the layers are too short just like in my last crappy haircut back home. They styled it nicely though. Cut was cheap too! Not sure if it's because it was my first time and/or I'm a foreigner... But it was only 18$!

Minus me looking very tired after Halloween-ing last night I look good.

Nakasan Beach

Stayed in a beach town near Seoraksan after the hike. The can driver was crazy. He drove us in circles to make more money. We refused to pay for the circle driving. He ran into our hotel and yelled at the hotel clerk. Ridonk!

Grabbed decent food. Hung out at the beach a bit. Hiked up to the big Buddha statue an temple area. Had some great company.

Seoraksan

Took another trip with WinK. LOVE this group! Cannot say enough good things about these people. Took a hike at Seoraksan. It ended up taking Nicole and I 15.5 hours to complete. We barely breaked, though we were cautious in some areas so as not to fall. But hot sweet Jesus that was a long ass hike! 

We had to use ropes at times to scale both up and down some of the ridges. There was even some snow at the top.

We commences the hike at 3:24 am up to Osek. Crazy busy. Had legit traffic jams. Was very neat to turn back and see all the headlamps making their way up the mountain side.

Made it to the highest peak, an elevation difference of over 3,000 feet! It was very misty/foggy which took away from the view. A little disappointing.

Hiked along Dinosaur Ridge - the biggest, most ridiculous part of the hike. It was constantly either up or down. Decent views.

Lost the trail and three Korean men said "follow us," so we did. A few hours with them later, we were told we were in the hardest, rockiest, downward decent. There was 15 minutes until it turns pitch black and we needed to motor down.

I had an out of body experience for the last three hours. I barely noticed te pain my legs and knees were in. Thank god! Nicole was dying. And she is usually the one running ahead. Must be that I have slow twitch muscle fibres ;) 

Oh the kinesiology in me will never die!:)

I am barely stuff from the hike even two days later! Nicole, still dying.

I can now say I did it. Any Korean will be hella impressed too. It's quite a feat. But never will I do that again! Haha

Spartan Training

Yesterday marks the commencement for my training regime for the November 3 Spartan Race Korea. 

I was so not in the mood to waking up at 6:45 am to train. But I did it. All up on y room top. Some Korean guy came and yelled I was too loud though. Will move my exercising to the canal trail tomorrow.

Stuck it out for three days of training. I'm impressing myself, though I am not pushing myself to my limits ...

Have ceased training - temporarily - as I have a long ass hike coming up over the weekend.

Will continue with my tough mudder work outs afterwards.

t-giving

I am oblivious to the timing of my Canadian holidays :( as I don't have the time off here. I miss them. I miss being at home to be apart of them. Miss my family and my friends who are an extension of my family.

One of the Korean friends went to Costco and picked us Canadians up a HUGE pumpkin pie. By god it was delicious!