So keeping in tact with my usually posting timeliness I am finally writing a post about my birthday over a month after my birthday…I really need to get better about this whole blogging thing.

Anyways my birthday in Korea was definitely up there as one of the better ones that I have had. I guess I’ll just break this one down chronologically even though I think that is such a boring method to recount events…it will help it stay short and sweet this time. Also as usual, another failing I have like getting blogs out on time, is that I am absolutely horrible about planning any sort of event. In the past I would be lucky enough to have a girl in my life that would assume this roll since I am so helpless at this, but this year my friends pulled through for me and helped me with the details; Thanks guys you really are the best!!!! All I was capable of planning was a baseball game and going to a bar afterwords…which worked out great, but the people who went were what made all the difference.

1. I got a package from the family back home with some postcards, photos, clothing, a rad fedora, and kick ass new rucksack backpack (that proved itself awesomely on my 2 week trip to Thailand). Also a very lovely mix CD from Ms. Anne back home.
2. My actual birthday fell on a Friday but said baseball game party wasn’t happening till Saturday. So Mijin, Heath, and Lauren found that absolutely unacceptable, bless their extravagantly large hearts. So they took me to a bar in Kyungsung University with giant long-neck beer mugs that have refrigerated beer cozies that keep them indefinitely cold. They even brought me a cake and crazy Japanese dude complete with a red cowboy hat and sequined silver cowboy boots. He even would sing a song that went like, ” Diejaboo Diejaboo, Diejaboo Diejaboo…It’s ALRIGHT!” and would end it with a little spin and thumbs up (Lauren loved this guy).
3. The next day was my first time attending a Professional Baseball game and on top of that I was attending it in Baseball crazed Asia. Well aside from the local team, the Busan Giants (yeah that’s right I’m a Giants fan here in Korea too), whooping the opposition there was an even more memorable event for me. My buddy Ben, a man that has so many tricks up his sleeve and in his hat that I am sure David Copperfield is green with envy, sang me Happy Birthday in Korean in front of the entire baseball stadium. When I say in front of the whole stadium, he went on stage, was on the big screen, and also unbelievably got literally thousands of Koreans to sing me Happy Birthday. It’s on the top of my birthday song list with Jake’s Happy Birthday played on bagpipes to me a few years ago. Oh and Ben gets recognized on the street sometimes now as the foreigner who sang Korean music and Korean Happy Birthday at the baseball game on the street sometimes.
4. Finally, my friends all got together and helped me have an amazing bash starting at the Rock n’ Roll Bar in Haeundae (cool bar with a birds eye view of the beach, pool table, beer pong, etc…) and ending at one of my favorites, Kino-Eye in Kyungsung for some dancing! Mijin, again, 감사합니다 for the cologne, I get compliments on it whenever I wear it.

It was hands down a birthday blast that I will never forget. To much fun with so many peoples that I have grown to love over here in the Land of the Morning calm. Cheers 친구s!!!! (still need to work on my Konglish skills ㅋㅋㅋㅋ).