So recently another Western holiday came and passed here in Korea. This time it was one of my all time favorites, HALLOWEEN! Sadly this is not a much celebrated holiday here in the Land of Kimchi but for those that want to party we make due in our own fashion.

To start this years festivities I had to do something I have discovered that I absolutely dread, school parties. I now know why my teachers all my life were more happy just to hold regular class and dispense with the festivities, because they are fucking exhausting! Really just think about trying to entertain literally hundreds of children for 6 hours on end. It will destroy your will to live trying to contain children en mass with sugar highs bouncing off the walls like manic bouncy balls. This round I was doing some arts and crafts which was fun but man my fingers hurt from tearing paper for hours on end for pumpkin mosaics, but the mosaics turned out pretty good…made me feel some teacher-esque pride! After the shenanigans of Halloween festivals with the students it was off for a going away dinner for Mr. Jung with the coworkers. There will be way less flash, shiny suits, and all around Korean Popstarness at the front desk of KJC Namcheon with his abscence, but his replacement Mr. Ye seems like a pretty nice guy. The company dinner was super fun but I got a little too drunk and sadly Mattugi got food poisoning. Although a good thing that happened that night was some lingering issues got worked out with an old friend…this made me very happy!!!!

The next day, it was off to try to find a last moment Halloween costume. Luckily, Tyler Cerro gave me an idea which actually required me to be in my own natural element, a nerd! It was so easy for me to pull together since I readily have so many nerdy things at hand like Rubix Cube that I bought early in the week with Jake (alas not as a prop but just because I really wanted a Rubix Cube), a Tri-Force pendant, jubilees of pens, and finally an inextinguishable ability to chat about nerdy things like math, video games, philosophy, nerdy cult classics, computers, etc…. Last thing to pull it all together the very marvelous and wonderful YeYe helped me pick out some nerdy glasses and mat my hair down into a grotesque nerd style.

Then we were off to Kyungsung University Area for a pub crawl which took the work crawl too literally. Walking into any of the bars meant that you would be walking at a crawling pace. There were so many people in all the bars there was only real solution…The Apex! Also known as Family Mart, which I have written about before. Basically, the crew and I posted up there and we just let the fun come to us and it did especially due to Jake and Lauren’s ass exposing rendition of Adam and Eve. They have reached 15 minutes of fame as minor celebrities with the foreigners of Busan. I have overheard people saying things such as “did you see that guy in the green thong in KSU on Halloween?” “Yeah that was my boy Jake.” Jake’s costume I think was just to much for most of the Koreans walking by that had no idea it was Halloween, let alone that they would see a near naked man walking the streets! Anyways I think everyone had super fun playing dress up and having a good reason to celebrate on a Saturday night!