In the meantime Sam's bag finally arriaved from the airport which lead to an exciting morning of waiting in front of the school for the Korean delivery person to show up with said bag. Inside among other things was a vcr that alas had seen better days or more carefree life and has cease to functioned. So I upped for a birthday present and bought a vcr to use in Korea which will at least allow me to watch a movie in my own apartment for a change.

Friday night included the usual drinkaholic activites, but the GI's were out in force on the rather cold night and so it was not as much fun as it could have been, but none the less nice.

Sam and I also travelled to Seumon Market once again where we mostly just wandered around to see what we could find, or run into. I managed to aquire and ear pick, which is an interesting little device that I think can only be had in asia. It's essentially a long thing stick with a scoop that one uses to scrap wax out of the ear, accompanied by another stick with a cotton ball for wiping. I don't know why but I find this horribly fascinating.

As we were wandering around we came across a stand that among other dried interesting goodies sold dried out hornets nests. I can only think that they must be used in the making of some kind of food, or possibly a tea. It was really unusual, there must have been at least ten good sized nests all bagged up together. I also saw allot of sea slugs on this visit and several street stands that were cooking up some odd crustacian I have no name for. We managed to wander into a basement area that seemed to sell mostly fish and squid and rice cake (sort of an odd combination of things actually) and found one place selling turtles. I mentioned that I had been wanting to aquire a turtle, and Sam pointed out that I might have difficulty explaining that I didn't want the turtle I was buying killed before I took it home.